![]() ![]() In particular, he sees a French warship firing into a forest for no discernible reason and comes upon a grove where exploited black laborers wander off to die. ![]() The Company headquarters is strangely ominous, and on his voyage to Africa he witnesses waste, incompetence, negligence, and brutality so extreme that it would be absurd if it weren't so awful. First he travels to the European city he describes as a " whited sepulcher" to visit the Company headquarters, and then to Africa and up the Congo to assume command of his ship. With the help of his well-connected aunt, Marlow gets a job as pilot on a steamship on the Congo River in Africa for a European business outfit called the Company. ![]() Marlow, one of the men on board, tells of his time spent as a riverboat pilot in the Belgian Congo. The Narrator describes a night spent on a ship in the mouth of the Thames River in England. ![]()
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