[June 1, 1869. Mr. Tolson took the good children—those who learned English and history more quickly—to the church to be baptized. After returning, the children displayed varying degrees of fatigue, sensitivity to cold, and other symptoms. The teachers believed it was due to the exhaustion of travel.]
[June 2. The children developed high fevers and fell into an abnormal state of excitement, unable to sleep. Some experienced hallucinations, seeming to see incomprehensible sights and babbling nonsense. After comparing numerous documents, the teachers determined that this was a contagious disease called "Insomnia." Those infected with it could not sleep at any time; they could only dream while awake, and dirt-like stains would also appear on their bodies.]
[The teachers found stains of varying sizes and shapes on different parts of the sick children's bodies, confirming the arrival of the terrible plague known as "Insomnia." Several children who had not yet displayed symptoms also had clumps of soil appear around their ankles. Strangely, the symptoms seemed to spread only among the indigenous people. None of the teachers besides Ms. Medina had been affected.]
[Baron claimed this was a curse—a curse belonging to the Evil God worshipped by the indigenous people themselves. He advocated letting the indigenous people find a way to cure it on their own, while the teachers merely observed and recorded the process. It sounded utterly bizarre, but this land had always been filled with magic and strange phenomena. The many abnormalities and wonders witnessed during the war were enough to prove that these backward peoples truly could use certain forms of witchcraft.]
[June 4. All the children showed symptoms of "Insomnia." The children who had first fallen ill began displaying signs of "forgetting," gradually losing memories of past experiences, including the names and concepts of certain things. The doctors