The lot of the one left behind is ever the

harder. Because of that—because she

as my partner in everything shared

with me the burden of the work

recorded in these pages—this

book is dedicated to my wife

"CHEEKY"

Percy Harrison Fawcett. Stoke Canon, Devon. 1924.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author wishes to thank Mrs. George Bambridge, daughter of the late Rudyard Kipling, for permission to quote two verses from her father's poem, "The Explorer". Thanks are due also to Messrs. Methuen and Co., Ltd., publishers of The Five Nations, in which this poem appears.