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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: provisioned her and then lay by while we got her in running
order. It didn't take near as long as you would have imagined.
Then we set out in company with the warship to search for
the 'Clarinda,' as your Captain Simms called her. We got on
her track through a pirate junk just north of Luzon--he said
he'd heard from the natives of a little out-of-the-way island
near Formosa that a brigantine had been wrecked there in the
recent typhoon, and his description of the vessel led us to
believe that it might be the 'Clarinda,' or Halfmoon.
"We made the island, and after considerable search found
the survivors. Each of 'em tried to lay the blame on the
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