Leclerc's Ghosts

Leclerc says he gets to his own plantation, but his house is gone. Le clerk says that they see scaffolds and with blood,. ruins, ashes, trees hung with the heads of colonists already putrefying. As they advanced, they came across a horrible sight. Oh, what an abomination. What did we seew hands from the wrist up, coming out of the ground with the fingers pointing upward. We stood petrified. Did they belong to bodies buried here? Had parricidal hands torn them from living victims? These hands no doubt belongd to a father, a friend, a mother. They might have just signed the man emissions of some of these monsters who