There we substituted our own law for the queer sort of law under which these people had lived; when they resisted too strongly we had, of course, no option but to kill them.

In other places we got mixed up completely by alliances and marriages with the old stock, and lived most agreeably with them.

In others again the natives killed us, and remained in possession.

Such was the Invasion of Anywhere." But (I had almost said unhappily) the invaders were not content with having swords, they had also consciences.

They were Christians, and thought it necessary to justify themselves before the High Court of Christian Europe.