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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: boats and the whole expedition under the command of Captain-
Lieutenant Jaeckel, the praam under Lieutenant Spengler. The men
had each forty rounds, one day's provisions, and their flasks
filled.
In the meanwhile, Mataafa sympathisers about Apia were on the
alert. Knappe had informed the consuls that the ships were to put
to sea next day for the protection of German property; but the
Tamaseses had been less discreet. "To-morrow at the hour of
seven," they had cried to their adversaries, "you will know of a
difficulty, and our guns shall be made good in broken bones." An
accident had pointed expectation towards Apia. The wife of Le
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