Jameson and Heart of Darkness', Notes and Queries, cciiiviii (March 1993), 64☖ L. `Oh, grandmamma!' he said, `I want to learn all about these strange countries, for I mean to be a big traveller some day.'6 Christopher Fletcher The British Library 5 See J. She asked him why he had not gone to bed, as it was some hours past his usual time. Thus it is interesting to learn, in the introduction to the volume, that: When quite a small boy, between four and five years old, his grandmother once found him, at a late hour of the night, poring over a map, which, strangely enough, was the map of Africa. Notes and Queries Oxford University Press ĭecember 2002 NOTES AND QUERIES shattering Congo experiences in Heart of Darkness, Conrad seems to have had to hand a number of published sources able to revive and shape the horrors of the time.5 Cited among them is Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, posthumously edited from the papers of James Sligo Jameson, whose exploits in the Congo two years before Conrad's arrival, appear to anticipate, in several respects, those of Kurtz and Marlow.

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