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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: the lagoon to make friends with Tuan Jorgenson; for, they said,
you, Tuan, were as if you had not been, possessing no more power
than a dead man, the mere slave of these strange white people,
and Belarab's prisoner. Thus Tengga talked. God had taken from
him all wisdom and all fear. And then he must have thought he was
safe while Rajah Hassim and the lady Immada were on board. I tell
you they sat there in the midst of your enemies, captive! The
lady Immada, with her face covered, mourned to herself. The Rajah
Hassim made a sign to Jaffir and Jaffir came to stand by his side
and talked to his lord. The main hatch was open and many of the
Illanuns crowded there to look down at the goods that were inside
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