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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: them all--about the brig, and how he tried to kill many men. He
knew the Orang Blanda were very near, although he had said
nothing to us about that; he knew his great danger. He thought
he had killed many, but there were only two dead, as I have heard
from the men of the sea that came in the warship's boats."
"And the other man, he that was found in the river?" interrupted
Lakamba.
"That was one of his boatmen. When his canoe was overturned by
the logs those two swam together, but the other man must have
been hurt. Dain swam, holding him up. He left him in the bushes
when he went up to the house. When they all came down his heart
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