Select the correct text in the passage. Read this excerpt from "Stephen Crane's Own Story." Which sentence describes an external conflict?
He said, "I think I am about through with it. I've been in a number of these expeditions and the pay is good, but I think if I ever get back safe this
time I will cut it."
I sat down in the corner of the pilot house and almost went to sleep.
In the meantime the captain came on duty and he was standing near me when the chief engineer rushed up the stairs and cried hurriedly
to the captain that there was something wrong in the engine room. He and the captain departed swiftly.
I was drowsing there in my comer when the captain returned, and going to the door of the little room directly back of the pilothouse, he
crled to the Cuban leader:
"Say, can't you get those fellows to work? I can't talk their language and I can't get them started. Come on and get them going."