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station increases the barbarity of the "civilized" whites. First Marlowe sees a chain gang of several
natives who seem starved and nearly worked to death. As they pass by, they seem to have the
blank stare of death, unconscious to Marlowe's presence even though they pass within six inches
of him. Again in the grove of death, Marlowe sees the effect of the civilizing light of Europe upon the
natives. "They were dying slowly . . . nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation . . . lost
in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were
then allowed to crawl away and rest" (82). Marlowe implies in this passage that the natives were
abused, used relentlessly for labor until they were spent, at which point they were "allowed" by the
civilized whites to crawl into the grove of death to die. Truly a barbaric and dehumanizing view,
using the natives only for their labor power, with no concern for their health or even their existence.
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