And then, looming direct in our path, like a volcano rising out of the mist on the affrighted vision of mariners tempest-tossed in tropic seas, is the specter of such States as Luzon and the Visayas and Haiti.
Reid uses a vivid metaphor to describe the looming threat of new states emerging from territories like Luzon and Haiti.
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