Two of the big firms in Riberalta kept forces of armed toughs for hunting Indians, and wholesale butchery went on. The wretched captives were taken so far away from their tribes that they lost all sense of direction, and so escape was all the more difficult (18)
the assault
the natural historian is an armed tough, weilding the weapon of language. Note Darwin's Kung Fu style; "Were ever the Eurpoean has trod, death seems to pursue the Aboriginal...The varieties of man seem to act on each other in the same way as different species of animals – the stronger always extirpating the weaker. (19) Scientific theories parallel the political and economic needs of the State. British Imperialism after the 1800's in this intance