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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: have been watching the day break, and long jagged islands start
into being out of the dull night. We are still some miles from
land; but the sea is calmer than Loch Eil often was, and the big
HOOPER rests very contentedly after a pleasant voyage and
favourable breezes. I have not been able to do any real work
except the testing [of the cable], for though not sea-sick, I get a
little giddy when I try to think on board. . . . The ducks have
just had their daily souse and are quacking and gabbling in a
mighty way outside the door of the captain's deck cabin where I
write. The cocks are crowing, and new-laid eggs are said to be
found in the coops. Four mild oxen have been untethered and
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