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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: and Queen Victoria's son assailed him with indignant looks. I was
the ass with the lion's skin; I could not roar in the language of
the Gilbert Islands; but I could stare. Karaiti declared he had
meant no offence; apologised in a sound, hearty, gentlemanly
manner; and became at once at his ease. He had in a dagger to
examine, and announced he would come to price it on the morrow, to-
day being Sunday; this nicety in a heathen with eight wives
surprised me. The dagger was 'good for killing fish,' he said
roguishly; and was supposed to have his eye upon fish upon two
legs. It is at least odd that in Eastern Polynesia fish was the
accepted euphemism for the human sacrifice. Asked as to the
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