"The white man"

I found what the people of Abame did to the white to be very interesting. I was sort of surprised when I read that they had killed him. It just seemed like some of them were very intrigued by him being there, but what I found even more interesting is what they did with his "iron horse" after they had killed him. After thinking about it a little bit I thought it was very smart of the people to do that. And because of the word that more were coming what they did made more sense.