Examine closely the 1st paragraph of the story. What is revealed here? What has Hemingway left out because “we already know it”?

What was the historic border between the united states and mexico?

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”

Iam a word that means to bring to fields and crops