In the first decades of the 20th century, Sir Colonel Percy Fawcett had ... On May 29, the team reached ‘Dead Horse Camp,’ a resting spot deep in the jungle where Fawcett had been forced ...

Colonel Percy Fawcett, who was born in Torquay ... On May 29, 1925, Fawcett wrote his final letter to his wife Nina from Dead Horse Camp, so named after his horse died there on an earlier expedition.