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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: upon the whole, had but little work to perform in the course
of a day; for though they exerted themselves extremely hard
while on the rock, yet, in the early state of the operations,
this could not be continued for more than three or four hours
at a time, and as their rations were large - consisting of one
pound and a half of beef, one pound of ship biscuit, eight
ounces oatmeal, two ounces barley, two ounces butter, three
quarts of small beer, with vegetables and salt - they got into
excellent spirits when free of sea-sickness. The rowing of
the boats against each other became a favourite amusement,
which was rather a fortunate circumstance, as it must have
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