Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)
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Kurtz is a fictional character in Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness. A European ivory trader in Central Africa and commander of a trading post, he monopolizes his position as a demigod am
Ivory trade in East Africa around 1890.
Boris Karloff (photo from 1957) played Kurtz in 1958.
James Sligo Jameson
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James Sligo Jameson was a Scottish naturalist and traveller in Africa. He identified the black honey-buzzard in 1877. Jameson's antpecker, Jameson's firefinch, and Jameson's wattle-eye are named after
Kurtz (Heart of Darkness)
…notes that Kurtz's sophisticated brutality is closer to that of Barttelot's associate, slave trader Tippu Tip. The rear column's Scottish naturalist, James Sligo Jameson, who died in the Congo a few months after watching while a slave girl for whom he had paid was killed and eaten by cannibals, has also been suggested…
Jameson, James Sligo
Photograph of Jameson
The entrenched camp at Yambuya – drawing from Jameson's diary
A "copy" or rather a reconstruction of Jameson's sketches, from James William Buel, Heroes of the Dark Continent (c. 1890). It follows the description of the sketches given by Farran. Bonny described their contents somewhat differently, and Jameson's actual sketches were never published.