Read it through once

I had not thought of him much before; my own brain was full of the river and of its oppressive infinite sameness. But at last the name recurred, and I found myself listening. The captain, with a slow movement of the head, pointed toward the interior, where, as he said, 'they say he lives like a god among the natives.' There was the usual mixture of admiration and horror in the voice of the speaker. The man, Kurtz, seemed to combine in himself all the powers of a leader.