The part of this excerpt from Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" describe the narrator's opinion of the sea as a hostile entity is "that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective".
Tell the person to write the question down i guess
Answer:
da speaker is telling us about da forest dat got set on fire cuz it was a while since people kindled da fire cuz dat happened a long time ago where they didn't have trouble doing it and sometimes da fires would get extinguished there was also a friction-chemical was made by mixing certain chemicals together so they believed it was dangerous to mess with. I hope dis helps :3