1) The narrator's tone in the first three excerpts is intrigue. In section on he talks about a "a formidable silence hung over the scene" as well as "dark human shapes [that] could be made out in the distance." Excerpts number two expounds upon this intrigue by showing the depth of which this person studied these beings in how "they had bone, muscle, a wide vitality, an intense energy of movement." Other words like "gloomy" add to the mysterious tone; and words like "fierce" contribute to the confident tone. In the last section he mentions how they were"complete, deathlike indifference of unhappy savages" - finally he labels them as such.
2. The tone of the first paragraph of the fourth section is shock. This is also a change in tones through the change from intrigue to simply shock. He describes the scene as a "picture of a massacre or a pestilence."
3. One country would manufacture another to put themselves in a position of power over the lesser country or perhaps to gain unity of some sort.
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