" No Falernian wine here, no going ashore" (Conrad, 4).
Falernian wine is a famous wine from the ancient Romans. It is called the wine of emperors because only the nobel Romans drank it. It is a symbol of civilization, which the ship is leaving as it heads out into the open ocean.
Links:
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/wine.html
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