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...real move was made to protect the Indian until 1910, when the government asked Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon. an army communications officer, to make peace with the tribes along a projected telegraph route through the jungle. Moved and angered by the Indians' tragic lot, Rondon established the Indian Protection Service, inspired his men to live up to the service's creed: "Die If You Must. But Never Kill." One of them, a Brazilian of German extraction named Harold Shult?, heroically applied this principle after a brave of the Xavante tribe, furious because Shultz had no gift...
...R.D.C. agents in Rio had a difference of opinion. Daveron wanted to push west through the plains of Bolivia, then north to the rubber country. The R.D.C. preferred the route that followed the old telegraph line strung diagonally across the great Brazilian plateau by General Candido Mariano Rondon, a famed Indianologist. Neither side budged. So the R.D.C., despairing of the mules project, sold most of the beasts...
Starting in 1907, Brazil's great Indian expert, General Candido Rondon, tried his hand. On one memorable march of 2,000 miles, Rondon was twice wounded by arrows. His party never brought one Chavante back to civilization. Its presents were scorned. But Rondon clung to the policy of pacification through love-a policy that became the cornerstone of Brazil's service for the protection of Indians...
Three years ago, the Chavantes again stood in the path of Brazil's great dream-the "March to the West." Airmen of the Brazilian Central Foundation, a grandiose colonizing scheme, dropped on them pots, pans and even pictures of Hollywood pinup girls. That only frightened the Indians. Rondon's Indian Service tried again. More presents were left: machetes, bright cloth. Recently, the Indians nibbled. Every 15 days they gathered in large numbers for the gifts. Last week the 156-year-old war was over. To General Rondon, now 82 and in Rio, the leader of the mission...
...wilderness airstrip near the chief's village. With necklaces they had lured his pretty daughter into their plane, flown her away. The Chief had set out on foot in search of his kidnapped daughter. Months later, in the distant State of Paraiba, he had found the princess. Rondon, advised of the reunion, had Chief and princess flown back to the grateful tribe...