Xingu Page #2

I could never have imagined.

Look at that one there.

PEACEFUL EXISTENCE BETWEEN

WHITE MAN AND INDIANS

TRIBES CONTACTED

IN UPPER XINGU:

For me, they weren't savages.

I had merely come face to face

with another civilization.

VILLAGES IN UPPER XINGU

This encounter would change

our lives forever.

This'll make you feel better.

What is it?

What's wrong, Tatomai?

Sick people, at the village.

- At the village?

- The village.

Wait here, Tatomai. We'll help you.

Medicine.

It'll do her good.

Make her better.

Calm down, calm down.

This will make you better.

They don't have the slightest

idea what this is.

They've never had the flu before.

And they never would have

if it hadn't been for us.

- Come.

- Help me.

We're out of penicillin.

Out of penicillin?

The Indians have all got the flue!

We need more penicillin fast!

Oh no! Not the chief!

They're all dying, an epidemic!

This is an emergency, buy more!

Colonel!

- Let's go, we're going up. Let's go.

- You're crazy.

Let's go!

Let's go, damn it!

There is no way we

can fly in this weather!

Leonardo!

Have you seen Orlando?

Where's Orlando?

The flu wiped out half the village.

It took Izaquiri.

And then spread

throughout the Upper Xingu.

And now? What do we do now?

I don't know.

All I know is that white people

can't come in any more.

They'll come anyway, Claudio.

If we can't control them,

I won't stay.

We can't just leave now.

If they want us, it has to be

on our own terms, Claudio.

We have to impose our own conditions.

We can bring a doctor in,

medicine, vaccines.

We'll take care of them, Claudio.

We take care of these and do away

with the ones we meet later.

That's just the way it is.

We'll be the poison and the antidote.

Either that, or worst.

It won't hurt at all, you'll see.

It's just a small prick.

Just a prick.

There, that's it.

- A bee sting.

- We're vaccinating you all...

- against the white mans' diseases.

- Pass me the cotton.

Hey, girl!

Let's do you now?

Good, good. Take it easy.

NORTH XINGU RIVER

Repeat, we need more fuel

to continue north.

UPPER XINGU OUTPOST.

- Confirming request for more fuel.

Repeat, more fuel.

Over and out.

When the fuel arrives,

take half and hide it.

For the doctor.

They all need gas.

- Chief.

- My student!

How are you?

This is the chief.

This is Noel.

Noel, Doctor Noel.

- This is Marina.

- Marina.

We felt responsible

for everything that might...

happen to them.

After all, they weren't the ones

who came looking for us.

We were the ones who had

trespassed on their land.

Come, closer.

Put your chest here, like that.

Closer, that's it.

It was only fair that

we protected them...

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