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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: evening breeze and the flowing tide, head towards Sambir under
her set foresail. The girl turned her canoe out of the main
river into one of the many narrow channels amongst the wooded
islets, and paddled vigorously over the black and sleepy
backwaters towards Sambir. Her canoe brushed the water-palms,
skirted the short spaces of muddy bank where sedate alligators
looked at her with lazy unconcern, and, just as darkness was
setting in, shot out into the broad junction of the two main
branches of the river, where the brig was already at anchor with
sails furled, yards squared, and decks seemingly untenanted by
any human being. Nina had to cross the river and pass pretty
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