Rogers; Why can't he just write what he means?;Melville post

Herman Melville shows us the landscape of The Encantadas as a pure, unadulterated, foreboding but innocent setting. The enchanted islands are untarnished, but dreary and the content is thirst-inducing. The Inferno-esque Islands are also very, very old; built up out of the ocean from volcanic ash, and at the same time, their general absence of man and his baggage makes them innocent. The Enchanted Islands are not particularly enchanting, but their idyllic name brings to mind fairy tales and children stories. Melville also takes time to make fun of those jaded, and stuffy individuals who refuse to compromise and make allowances but must barrel through the issue at hand with his sketch on the tortoises. There are no worthy people on the Encantadas. They are all power-hungry and ridiculous, for example, the "King" and the tramp "Oberlus". It's almost as if the island can only maintain those who have lost any innocence they might once have claimed for instance, the truly innocent "Chola Widow" could not survive on the islands.
In the other short story we read by Melville, Benito Cereno, the naive and well-meaning captain of a Massachusetts whaling vessel, Amasso Delano, boards a ship that looks to be in need of help. Realizing the drastic needs of the slaves and crew-members, kindly Delano provides them with provisions. Captain Delano tries to block out the small details that seem to be out of place or not right, wrapping himself up in a blanket of false security. His "American innocence" and trusting nature allows him to ignore the clues and remain willfully ignorant until the crucial moment when Cereno jumps into the dinghy headed for Delano's ship. Amasso Delano represents American innocence/ignorance and guilt in regard to the slave trade; never once considering the point of view of Babo and the other slaves and the conditions that might have lead to their mutiny.