Since my father’s time, there had been much talk of fine people who arrived on ships with decorated masts and sails, landing on shores that were not their own but laying claim to them nevertheless, as if these places did not already have tribes of their own whose blood was interred with the soil. They claimed that they were bringing ‘civilisation’ to us, but all they brought was bloodshed and domination. They called themselves ‘explorers’ but the name was as false as a devil’s promise. My people had explored our land thoroughly across many generations and were familiar with every cave and
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