The hollow valley is a province of "death's dream kingdom."
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In HEART OF DARKNESS, it is the excavated valley, full of derelict objects and hopeless native labourers that Marlow comes to on his way to the interior of the Congo: "it seemed to me I had stepped into the gloomy circle of some Inferno. . . . Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees, leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth, half coming out, half effaced within the dim light, in all the attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair (p. 26 in Bantam; pages 81-82 in Signet Classics edition).