“I would just as soon have expected restraint from a hyena prowling amongst the corpses of a battlefield.” (Conrad 61).The hyena, like the vulture, is a scavenger—it eats already dead meat, called carrion. (http://www.thewebsiteofeverything.com/weblog/pivot/entry.php?id=536) This passage is comparing the restraint of the cannibalistic natives, which amazes Marlow, to a hyena walking through the “corpses of a battlefield.”
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