Read this passage from a journal of the plague year by daniel defoe. what is the main idea of the passage? it was about the beginning of september, 1664, that i, among the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was returned again in holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at amsterdam and rotterdam, in the year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from italy, others from the levant, among some goods which were brought home by their turkey fleet; others said it was brought from candia; others from cyprus. it mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into holland again. the plague had been in holland before. some people said the plague came to holland from italy. people disagreed about whether the plague had come to holland again. although people did not know its origins the plague was in holland again.