How It All Goes Down
The Disciple
- We're back in 1900, where men wear blazers and wax their moustaches. Wait, have we gone back in time or not?
- Fawcett meets Edward Ayearst Reeves, who takes Fawcett to a surveying course at the Society.
- Reeves believes Fawcett and his peers could become "the next generation" of great explorers (6.8).
- Fawcett is a fast learner, making him the Data of the group.
- Fawcett quickly learns how to use a variety of tools no explorer leaves home without: theodolites, aneroids, sextants, the Pokédex.
- Fawcett is also taught how to measure people.
- The explorers are anthropologists, too, taught to observe "savages, barbarians, [and] the lower civilized nations. […] It is established that some races are inferior to others in volume and complexity of brain" (6.11).
- Fawcett studies hard and passes his explorer's exam with flying colors.
- Now he just needs a mission.