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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: single-handed; and of course this was known in the port. I am
telling you of it because the fact had its influence on the
developments you shall hear of presently.
"His steamer, being so small, could go up tiny creeks and into
shallow bays and through reefs and over sand-banks, collecting
produce, where no other vessel but a native craft would think of
venturing. It is a paying game, often. Davidson was known to
visit in her places that no one else could find and that hardly
anybody had ever heard of.
"The old dollars being called in, Davidson's Chinaman thought that
the Sissie would be just the thing to collect them from small
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