ll, centres round ivory. Mr.

Kurtz has proved to be the best agent in the sense that he collects
more ivory than all the other agents taken together. It is evident that the trading company, of
which Mr. Kurtz is the employee, trades in ivory for the sake of the financial returns which it
brings. In this respect, Mr. Kurtz has proved to be very useful to the Company, so useful that the
other white men in the Congo, including the manager himself, think that Mr. Kurtz would one
day rise very high. Indeed, the point to note here is that Mr. Kurtz does not merely collect ivory
but that, in the process of collecting it, he has himself