Everyone at some time in his or her life has had a dream or desire to have a great adventure. One that would take them through their wildest dreams and to the places they always wanted. Unfortunately sometimes we find that what we thought would be the greatest thing in the world turns out to be our worst nightmare. Joseph Conrad wrote a story called the "Heart of Darkness" which tells of a shipman who discovers this very possibility to be a reality and shares it with some of his acquaintances.
             The story is told by Marlow, an experienced ship captain, telling of an experience that he had in is earlier years on the water. He starts his story telling of how when he was younger he had a passion for maps. He said that he would look at them for hours wishing that when he was older he could travel to all the places that were not completely mapped. He had an extreme interest in Africa and all its undiscovered land.
             When he gets older he gets the chance to go and work for an ivory company in Africa as a skipper taking shipments of ivory and supplies from station to station. He was very happy to get such a job and looked forward to finally going to the place he had always dreamed of.
             Right from the start of his employment he began to notice something very strange about the people that ran this company. Not a conspiracy within their legal matters but something about the way the people acted. Each seemed to be thoroughly interested in something other than the importance of getting fresh supplies to one of their stations that had not been visited for some time and the place where they believed that all of the ivory was. They claimed that the man who was stationed there was most likely all right because very intelligent, to the point of being a genius, and could take care of himself.
             This was not the only thing that seemed quite strange about this place. When he arrived to where his steamboat was, he found that it had sunk ...