The author also shows the colonist perception of the natives as little more than property or in Marlow's word, "machinery ... statuary."" ... Furthermore, the idea that the colonists are the origin of the trouble is expertly illustrated by the author when the natives "Quote Cannibals- in this incident the initiative was taken by the native cannibals to bring hippo meat so as not to offend the colonists as they where conscious that cannibalism is regarded as animalistic in European culture. ...

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