Evening star., 1925-01-13

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| Bolivia became involved in a contro-
! versy over rubber in the Acre dis
| trict in Northwestern Brazil. The
| matter of boundaries was left to
! England for arbitration and Col,
| Fawcett was appointed one of COM
/ mission of three to delimit the
| boundaries. This led to continuous
exploration work In South America.
! In 1914 Col Fawcett re-entered the
! British army and was given command
! Of brigade of field artillery. he
was later a counter battery stan OF
! fcer. He was mentioned four times
! in dispatches He is a distinSulshed
artist and an exhibitor in the Royal
| Academy.
His son. Jack Fawcett, is also a
competent artist. They plan to sup
pIement the Photographic record of
| their expedition with numerous
sketches.
"High Marks of Danger"
! Col. Fawcett will add the last items
of his equipment at Rio Janelro ana
proceed without delay several nun
| dred miles westward by rail to Co
rumba He will then proceed north
| eastward to Cuyaba, where he Will
obtain mules and Indians for the
drive through swamps and JunsIes TO
| thte portals of the forbidden city.
! on this journey he expects to pass
the high mark of danger, as II is
| here he will meet the worst of the
perils of Indians, jungle creatures
| and disease. barring possibly the ell
| matte adventure of the passage into
/ the ancient city.
| ON a previous expedition Col. Faw-
! cett's life was saved by an electric
hashlight,, which led the Indians to
| endow him with certain godlike pro
pensities after they had bombarded
| him win arrows Facing the GER
tainty of a repetition of this eNpe-
rience, Col, Fawcett has some spe-
| cialIv made lever lights" which can
he adjusted on his head so that they
appear as great, bulbous, fiashing
| eyes.
Saw Man ImDaied.
ct is quite possible to get on nice :
ly with the savages, if they don't hit
you when they first shoot their ar
| rows at YOU" said Col Fawcett.
..Their bows are seven or eight feet
long made Of the fibrous wood OF the
| Chenta palm. ] once saw an arrow
mass laterally through the body OF a
| man. piercing his arms and chest
and sinking an inch into hardwood
plank. against which he was leanln &
| on the deck of river boat Ihat
| shows the force of their arrows.
AFTER getting acquainted with
them. YOU use some silly thing like
a fashlight TO make them think you
are a god. and you get on first rate.
| NV theodolite was very useful for
this. They used to think l was talk
| ing to the stars.
| "Their arrows are tipped with poi
SON, and it's all up with chap II ne
| gets scratched with one OF them.
| Strangely enough, the game killed
with these poisoned arrows is ealoIe;
| "My firm belief that We shall nnd
an ancient city. hitherto unknown to
modern man, is based on many pieces
| of evidence which / have fitted to-
gether during the last ls years
| There are old records and documents;
| there is testimony, astonishingly In
| agreement. from widely separated re-
| gions: there is the definite and con-
vincing story of the Indians who oc-
cuuy the approach to this country
7 have obtained from them ancient
art which they said came from the
old city. l have found them in deadly
| fear of the degenerate descendants
of the old white race, which they
say now occupy the ancient, ruined
! city.
I story of Ancient People.
"There has long been a tradition
| in Brazil of a people called the 'Orizes
Precazes,' inhabiting some fastness
/ in the far interior During the ear
Iier days of the Portuguese settle
ment. river exploration produced con
| stant reports of the white and cloth
! ed Indians, who disappeared as
mysteriously as they appeared. Such
reports reach down to half century
ago. when they ceased, except for
sporadic stories of isolated settlers.
| There are tribes with women
chiefs tribes of sun worshipers
with religious terms almost identi-
| cal with the Incan names-tribes who
know and name the planets-tribes
| who sing to the sun and have the
| most beautiful voices. There are the
Maxubis, still unknown outside, who
! worship Vira Vira. the Sun, known
to the Incas as Vira Cocha.
"The Amazonas. or rAikeambenanas-
the women who live alone'-weFe no
mythical. and the region which they
inhabited is still unexplored. Tht
Mariquitas were robust people. will
women chiefs, whose women tough
like the Amazons. The Cambenana
were fair Indians, working In cottol
and using rubber. The Ibirajavas, &C
cording to the Tapuya tribes, orna
mented themselves with plates o
gold Amazons were known with tn
same name and the same habits il
Assyria and Greece. Wooden or 'Odin
is still worshiped by some Amazon
tribes, identical with Scandinavia
mythology"
1t is expected that the expedition
will require about 20 months to com
plete it's Investigations. Col, Fawcet
will attempt to relay dispatches b.
| Indian runners up to and from tn
last outpost of civilization and later
if possible, from the forbidden cit,
itself. BY special arrangement wit
Col. Fawcett, through the Nortl
American Newspaper Alliance, TIL
Star has arranged for publication o
these dispatches, and all news of tn
expedition will be published exclu
sively in this newspaper and othe
members of the alliance.
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