Read the excerpt from "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.”Conrad, after all, did sail down the Congo in 1890 when my own father was still a babe in arms. How could I stand up more than fifty years after his death and purport to contradict him? My answer is that as a sensible man I will not accept just any traveller's tales solely on the grounds that I have not made the journey myself. I will not trust the evidence even of a man's very eyes when I suspect them to be as jaundiced as Conrad's.
Achebe refers to Conrad’s account of his own journey down the Congo as “a traveller’s tale,” then says he will not trust it simply because Conrad saw the place himself. This is anecdotal evidence: information based on someone’s personal experience. The passage is not mainly using geographical facts, quotations from another text, or a summary.
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