But such a violent and unexpected murder, and to come in such a very uncivilized manner! According to what the other men told me, there was absolutely no provocation or intimidation -- they simply told the assembly to disperse, and one of them that had been in jail yesterday simply started hacking him to pieces with a machete.
The other men were understandably shaken, and I cannot say I blame them. We must all thank God that they were able to escape with their lives, though it does seems that only this one individual displayed such extreme rage.
Still, I do not relish my duty now. Like Daniel walking right into the lion's den -- except he had a king who threw him in, and I have only the weight of history and the advancement of proper civilization pushing me forward. And the lions Daniel faced were never so dangerous, nor so duplicitous, as these people have proven to be. I must bear myself with the confidence of our rightful Empire.
When I first arrived at the village, they seemed to be attempting to evade justice for their violent act against my man. I admit, I lost my cool somewhat in threatening to imprison the men I found there, though this would have been the only reasonable course of action in any civilized country. Obstructing the effective investigation and prosecution of a clear-cut case of unprovoked murder -- it is no wonder these people live in such conditions; they have absolutely no sense of moral rectitude or civil and social obedience, but only a collective superstition.
Then there is their roundabout way of talking. As longs as I live here, I shall never get used to the way it is impossible to get a straight answer from these people. They always act as if it is they who are doing you the favor, too, and not the other way around. As if revealing the location of a murderer were not something they had a duty, under a universal and unequivocal moral code, to do.
Then there is the wheedling, always trying to get something. I agreed, of course, in the...
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