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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: The writer had all along been considering of various
schemes - providing the men could be kept under command -
which might be put in practice for the general safety, in
hopes that the SMEATON might be able to pick up the boats to
leeward, when they were obliged to leave the rock. He was,
accordingly, about to address the artificers on the perilous
nature of their circumstances, and to propose that all hands
should unstrip their upper clothing when the higher parts of
the rock were laid under water; that the seamen should remove
every unnecessary weight and encumbrance from the boats; that
a specified number of men should go into each boat, and that
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