The flooding of the banks of the Mississippi river precluded the delta queen's docking on schedule. Hope this helps :)
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(I believe you are asked to complete the passage, and find the missing words).
Fortunately, in that moment of “desperate extremity,” the Powhatans brought food and rescued the starving strangers. A year later, several hundred more settlers arrived, and again they quickly ran out of provisions. They were forced to eat “dogs, cats, rats, and mice,” even “CORPSES” dug from graves. “Some have licked up the blood which hathfallen from their weak fellows,” a survivor reported. “One member of our colony murdered his wife, ripped the child out of her womb and threw it into the river, and after chopped the mother in pieces and salted her for his food, the same not being discovered before he had eaten part thereof.” “So great was our famine,” John Smith stated, “that a savage we slew and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and ate him; and so did diverse one another boiled and stewed with roots and herbs.”
Answer: This ain't Face book
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and then I saw it. something covered in dust. was it a human? standing in my room. what was it? was he going to speak stood still as he stared at me for a few minutes? did he think I was a statue from a museum or a doll in the shops?
I looked at him again, he was covered in some black dust. he was wearing ripped shorts and a t-shirt. I kind of felt bad for him because he didn't look like he had many privileges like I do. he looked like he hadn't eaten for hours. a few minutes later we heard it was my mom coming to check if I was awake because I just had taken my afternoon nap.
then he climbed the chimney. I looked outside my window and saw him running away. I thought to myself will I ever see him again?
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