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Although a drunk, lance corporal Henry Costin, who has knowledge of the Amazon rain-forest, proves a valuable assistant, as well as the whipped Indian 'slave' scout Tadjui, which he gets assigned by a local abusive rubber plantation owner baron De Gondoris and sticks to legends about a lost golden city. So he eagerly accepts when proposed to join an expedition mounted by the Royal geographical Society to Bolivia, as surveyor, to help settle a border dispute with Brazil in unexplored Amazonia. Fawcett dismisses such stories as insane ravings, but discovers highly advanced broken pottery and some small stone statues in the jungle that convince him of the veracity of Tadjui's story.Įnglish career officer fears his promotion chances are blocked as he never was posted where the action is and gets ignored at social events due to a scandal sticking to his late father.

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Tadjui tells Fawcett stories about a jungle city covered in gold and full of people. Fawcett, with several guides and the Amazonian scout Tadjui, completes the mission. At a large rubber plantation in the jungle owned by the Portuguese nobleman Baron DE Gondoris, the two meet Corporal Arthur Manley, who tells them that the British government advises against further exploration. Aboard a ship to Brazil, Fawcett meets Corporal Henry Costin, who has knowledge of the Amazon rain-forest. Fawcett agrees to lead the survey party to restore his family's good name. The governments of Bolivia and Brazil are nearly at war over the location of their mutual boundary and its direct effect on the region's extremely lucrative rubber trade, and have asked the British government to survey it. A year later, Fawcett is sent to London to meet with officials of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). A skilled horseman and marksman, he brings down the stag swiftly but is snubbed at the after-hunt party. Ireland, 1905: Percy Fawcett is a young British officer participating in a stag hunt on an Irish baronial estate for the benefit of the visiting Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.