Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist.
However, Thomas 82' has pointed out that the work of J. W. Walton on the flora of the overlying beds make a Dwyka age very probable for the basal Boulder Beds in the infaulted blocks along the Zambezi, which today constitute the Wankie ...