A. "The time had come for the men to make a plan, but they had very few options... these men were just about as far from land as it was possible to be anywhere on Earth." (Paragraph 5)
B. "To be eaten by cannibals, to be battered by storms, to starve to death before reaching land. These were the fears that danced in the imaginations of these poor men" (Paragraph 5)
C. "When the last of the survivors were finally picked up by two passing ships, less than half of the men were left alive, and some of them had resorted to their own form of cannibalism." (Paragraph 9)
D. "perhaps if they'd been able to read their fears more like a scientist, with more coolness of judgment, they would have listened instead to the less violent but the more likely tale, the story of starvation" (Paragraph 10)
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B. "To be eaten by cannibals, to be battered by storms, to starve to death before reaching land. These were the fears that danced in the imaginations of these poor men" (Paragraph 5).
This quote highlights the intense fears and concerns of the men, which informs the context of their desperate situation and decision-making process.
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