Consequently the clerks had to write up the record in quite a different fashion.

They discovered that their bluff, hard-bitten, rather likeable employers, scarcely one of whom could read or write, had really invaded Anywhere as the trustees of civilisation.
Now it may be said in general--and the observation extends to our own time--that the moment an invader discovers that he is the trustee of civilisation he is irretrievably lost to the truth.

He is forced by his own pose to become not an unprincipled liar, but that much more disgusting object, a liar on principle.

He is bound, in order to legitimise his own position, to prove that "the natives" are savages, living in a morass of nastiness and ignorance.

All facts must be adapted to this conclusion.