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Not sure if I am understanding you correctly but they didn't kill him because he brought them gifts, they killed him because previous outsiders brought disease and death, so they are rightly xenophobic.



ISTM we don't have the faintest clue as to why they killed him. That's kind of the point. One doubts that any of them have studied public health.


What does ISTM mean?


It seems to me.




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