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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: And keep a lookout. If there's any current we'll be closing
with some islands before daylight."
The east side of the gulf is fringed with islands, some solitary,
others in groups. One the blue background of the high coast they
seem to float on silvery patches of calm water, arid and gray,
or dark green and rounded like clumps of evergreen bushes,
with the larger ones, a mile or two long, showing the outlines
of ridges, ribs of gray rock under the dark mantle of matted leafage.
Unknown to trade, to travel, almost to geography, the manner
of life they harbor is an unsolved secret. There must be villages--
settlements of fishermen at least--on the largest of them, and some
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