Grades:
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General
Page numbers are from Roads Classics Edition. A European man travels to the Congo to pilot a steamship for a European company gathering ivory and riches. He witnesses terrible brutality in the way the company treats the natives, and how Europeans act when they are far from civilization and not bound by the usual niceties and code of conduct. He looks forward to meeting a certain European at one of the outposts but when he arrives he discovers that he had turned himself into a diety for the natives and murdered people and put their heads on posts. There is a description of a tall native women involved with this man- it is implied she is his mistress, but it is not said outright. The man had a fiance in England.
p32 niggers
p36 stupid
p39 man thinks of someone as a "chattering idiot"
p55 refers to a man as "that ass"
p76 gory and detailed description of a man killed by a spear
p107 stupid
p115 stupid
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