"We were wanderers on prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. We could have fancied ourselves the first of men" (32)
As Marlow's steamboat travels farther up the Congo they seem to be going back in time. It is so quiet at times that the men feel as if they are the only men on the planet, but then they will hear drums or see Africans dance like prehistoric mad men. Time is surreal because their surroundings are prehistoric, but they are advanced and civilized.
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