HOD #2

Marlow describes London in "very old times, when the Romans first came here" as a dark and mysterious territory that is unknown. Thus, Marlow uses vivid imagery to create an inescapable atmosphere from the beginning: "cold, fog, tempests, disease, exile, and death,--." London's past is described as a territory run by "savages" which is opposite from the current circumstance of London now, being luxurious. Therefore, the connection between London in Roman times and the English colonization of Africa is that there was an unknown (savage) territory of "mysterious life of the wilderness" in both the Romans and colonists' cases.