The revision that would help expand the ideas in the excerpt
above would be adding more specifics about the sailors' beliefs about the
island.
To add, the Most Dangerous Game opens with a conversation
between two men—Whitney and
Rainsford.
B - not authentic; fake
Apocyphal is typically a story or statement that is false or made-up but widely believed to be true.
A. offer to send Old Yeller away to live on his own