Creeps and they might see other people doing grown up thungs and they might want to try it to plus they need to focus more on school so they can get an education
It is implied that the emotional, mental, and/or spiritual needs haven't been healed.
Basically Rudyard Kipling´s a matter of fact tried to explain the experience of three journalist that have experienced a non-easy-to-explain situation which they saw some kind of ghost or spectrum on the sea during a travel between Africa and England and the real problem is to establish how the read the incident.