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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: hearts within us.'
"At which, gentles, we were like madmen for lust of that gold, and
cheerfully undertook a toil incredible; for first we run our ship
aground in a great wood which grew in the very sea itself, and then
took out her masts, and covered her in boughs, with her four cast
pieces of great ordnance (of which more hereafter), and leaving no
man in her, started for the South Seas across the neck of Panama,
with two small pieces of ordnance and our culverins, and good store
of victuals, and with us six of those negroes for a guide, and so
twelve leagues to a river which runs into the South Sea.
"And there, having cut wood, we made a pinnace (and work enough we
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