In the great moonlight clearings I slunk along among the shadows on the margin. In the
jungle I crept forward, stopping with a
beating heart whenever I heard, as I often
did, the crash of breaking branches as some
wild beast went past. Now and then great
shadows loomed up for an instant and were
gone-great, silent shadows which seemed to
prowl upon padded feet.
Why would the author put these details at the
beginning of the story?

The author put those details to introduce a time and a place, those are key for making a setting which advanced the story and allows it to develop.

Both men foresaw the us as a great future power. however, they differed on the path the nation was to follow in achieving this role. while jefferson preferred an agrarian nation, hamilton favored an industrial and business intensive nation. as such, jefferson detested hamilton's idea of a strong federal government. jefferson wanted the bulk of power to rest with the states. these major views were behind polarizing washington's cabinet into two distinct factions. hamilton's followers became known as federalists and jefferson's democratic-republicans.