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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: all the more; it made me swear inwardly a thousand solemn oaths
that I would win her.
Chapter 4
For several days things went along in about the same course.
I took our position every morning with my crude sextant; but the
results were always most unsatisfactory. They always showed a
considerable westing when I knew that we had been sailing due north.
I blamed my crude instrument, and kept on. Then one afternoon the
girl came to me.
"Pardon me," she said, "but were I you, I should watch this man
Benson--especially when he is in charge." I asked her what she
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