While colonisers employed Indigenous peoples to do the touching for them, they retained the rights to knowledge about that which the " natives" touched: mosses and the more-than-human world.

虽然殖民者雇用原住民代替他们完成触摸的动作，但他们保留了了解“本地人”所触之物的权利：苔藓和超越人类的世界。