Picture Gallery 2. 3. 1. 4. 1. Joseph Conrad on board the ship Ready in 1916 2. The ship Otago , captained by Conrad in 1888 3. An 1805 map of Africa from John Cary s New Universal Atlas 4. The scramble for Africa (The Rhodes Colossus striding from Cape Town to Cairo,1892) 5. La Force Publique - three sentries with a prisoner (c. 1904) 5. 116