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... speed. It is certainly not as disturbing to the island and its residents as Darwin and his crew, both with the noise that they make and their un-natural presence, as Gittings later remarks on. "Kin to nothing on this desolate coast." Here Gittings clearly shows that Darwin and his men should not be on that island or that they have no natural reason to be. There is a fair amount of reference to the noise that Darwin and his men's arrival causes, "shout from the dull water echoes out." "Descending hiss.. hammer falls" These two extracts show just how disruptive and destructive Darwin's arrival really is. Again the reference to Darwin and his people being un-natural is highlighted when Gittings refers to them as, "three legged to their two." No creature that nature or God creates has three legs, thus the un- natural imagery set. This is in great contrast to the ...
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