Ignorance Is the Parent of Fear

"i confess i was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night. But what to make of this head peddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension," he writes. "It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable man or other, shipped aboard of a whaleman in the south seas and so landed in this christian country."