It shows that the narrator was an observer of the mystical events that appeared inside the house. He was a helpful man who tried to reach Roderick. However, it's like his friend had reached his time and his family and the house seemed to take him. This scared him to death as a manipulative environment came to life from the stories told by his friend.
The <em>“Thylacine”</em>, best kwon as a "Tasmanian Tiger", was kind of a marsupial wolf now extinct. It was a carnivore predator that ambushed its preys.
Thylacines or Tasmanian Tigers were part of the <em>Australian</em> landscape in the past. Two things influenced the diminish of Thylacines: the arrival of men 40,000 years ago, and the dingo dogs brought by men about 4,000 years ago.
The last species of Tasmanian Tigers were taken the island of Tasmania. The last of the species dissapeared in the mid-1930’s.
I think either excited or confused. Since the first sentence is well, with an exclamation point, I guess I would lean towards excited. It would help to know more of the story.