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I think it mean that he is looking at all these other places (outports are Europian settlements in Canada) and watching them become tangled and hard to separate - like with a fishing line. Or they have to be careful and not become lost or tangled.
The type of sentence is a question, is that what you're looking for?
WAIT WHY WAS HIS ACCOUNT DELETED
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