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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: many a day and a night too did I spend cruising with these rough,
kindly men, under whose auspices my intimacy with the sea began.
Many a time "the little friend of Baptistin" had the hooded cloak
of the Mediterranean sailor thrown over him by their honest hands
while dodging at night under the lee of Chateau d'If on the watch
for the lights of ships. Their sea-tanned faces, whiskered or
shaved, lean or full, with the intent wrinkled sea-eyes of the
pilot-breed, and here and there a thin gold hoop at the lobe of a
hairy ear, bent over my sea-infancy. The first operation of
seamanship I had an opportunity of observing was the boarding of
ships at sea, at all times, in all states of the weather. They
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