ABSTRACT
The outward appearance of this man, what he had heard of him and the pathetic contrast between his dilapidated condition and the enormous ambitions which he still cherished, made a deep impression upon the novelist’s sensitivity just then awakening in Captain Conrad’s consciousness. Captain Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski probably served his literary apprenticeship aboard the Vidar. The voyages of the Vidar took only about three weeks for the round trip and she would stay at Bulungan only overnight, just long enough to load. The Dutch doctor he consulted on his arrival in Samarang could give no scientific explanation of the case.
