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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: summer on the same ship, the CIRCASSIA; and before two days after
their arrival each of the four had found a comfortable berth. This
was the most hopeful tale of emigration that I heard from first to
last; and as you see, the luck was for stowaways.
My curiosity was much inflamed by what I heard; and the next morning,
as I was making the round of the ship, I was delighted to find the
ex-Royal Engineer engaged in washing down the white paint of a deck
house. There was another fellow at work beside him, a lad not more
than twenty, in the most miraculous tatters, his handsome face sown
with grains of beauty and lighted up by expressive eyes. Four
stowaways had been found aboard our ship before she left the Clyde,
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