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And indeed, nothing is easier for a man who has, as the phrase goes, ‘followed the sea’ with reverence and affection, than to evoke the great spirit of the past upon the lower reaches of the Thames. The tidal current runs to and fro in its unceasing service, crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home, or to the battles of the sea . . . from the Golden Hind returning with her round flanks full of treasure . . . to the Erebus and Terror, bound on other conquests – and that never returned.

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness