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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: first of which overturned, so that all were lost. Just then the
carak gave a lurch before she sank, and, seeing that everything was
over, I called to the priest to follow me, and springing into the
sea I swam for the second boat, which, laden with some shrieking
women, had drifted loose in the confusion. As it chanced I reached
it safely, being a strong swimmer, and was able to rescue the
priest before he sank. Then the vessel reared herself up on her
stern and floated thus for a minute or more, which gave us time to
get out the oars and row some fathoms further away from her.
Scarcely had we done so, when, with one wild and fearful scream
from those on board of her, she rushed down into the depths below,
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