"The leaders of the Humanitarian Associations, who occasionally came to visit us to see how we were doing, were generous with compliments. One day I caught myself thinking that I could not have wished for more, but just as I was formulating this thought the mechanism suddenly broke.
"The villagers began to die more and more frequently, As if due to an incomprehensible phenomenon, they fell ill and died within a few hours. The symptoms of that disease were indecipherable, it was as if an unknown virus or who knows what else had taken over the air and water, or the food. It was as if it struck randomly, maliciously, with the intent of exterminating the entire village. The only ones who were not affected by this strange illness were we Europeans.
"Desperate, we spent whole nights in our sma
