In Joseph Conrad's story, Heart of
Darkness, when Marlow leaves England, and traveling in a French ship, down
the coast of Africa, he enters the "mouth" of the Congo; from there he travels to the
Lower Station.
Marlow must wait at the Lower Station for ten
days before setting out two hundred miles overland in a caravan to where his steamer is
waiting up the river at the Central
Station.
Marlow's job is to
travel into the heart of the Congo to find and bring back Kurtz, an employee of the
company who does amazing work in shipping back enormous amounts of ivory—no one has
heard from him in nine months: they only sense the company has that Kurtz is still alive
is based on the fact that the ivory continues to
arrive.
When Marlow lands at the Central Station (his
second stop), he finds the ship that he is supposed to command is under water. So begins
the extensive task of repairing it so that Marlow can continue his journey to fulfill
the task at hand.
The third and last stop on Marlow's trip
is the Inner Station, where Marlow eventually finds Kurtz. When he finally is able to
get Kurtz on board, he turns the ship around with the intention of returning to
England.
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