![]() ![]() Back to the tale: there are cannibals on board!.This proves that they haven't all fallen asleep, in case you were still wondering about that-in fact, they're all super into the story.One of the listeners interrupts Marlow's narrative.So much so that Marlow describes it as traveling back to the beginning of time, before the dawn of mankind: huge forests, aggressive animals, an unnerving stillness, etc. After two months of traveling upriver, they reach Kurtz's station.It also means they were killed by "this.".Marlow learns later that all their donkeys died, which implies that the men died too. Soon afterward, the Eldorado Exploring Expedition leaves.To cover up their screams of fright, they pretend to ignore him and go back up to the station. Marlow is so scared by "this" that he jumps out of his hiding place, which scares the living bezonkers out of manager and uncle.The men keep jabbering until the uncle tells the manager not to worry, but instead to trust "this," which we assume involves a gesture to the surroundings, since "this" means the scary African wilderness.Marlow has developed something of an obsession with this guy he's never met and thinks it's admirable. Everyone thinks this is odd-everyone, that is, except Marlow.Apparently, Kurtz once came down the river to send the ivory to the Company but then decided to turn back.They oh-so-nicely hope the climate will kill him.The manager and his uncle are unhappy with Kurtz, because he's too influential with Company heads and they think he's stealing ivory.Make that extremely interesting: Kurtz.One lazy day, Marlow is napping out on deck when he hears the manager and his uncle talking about something faintly interesting. ![]()
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