Evening star., 1928-10-12
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October 12.-Comdr
! George M. Dyott, who sailed from New
| York last Spring at the head of party
organized to solve the mystery of Col
P. H. Fawcett's disappearance into the
Amazonian wilderness more than three
years ago, returned yesterday on the
| steamer Justin. from Para.
"AS l announced in my dispatches
by radio to The Star and the North
American Newspaper Alliance" he said
there is not the slightest doubt in my
mind, nor the minds of any Of our
party, that Col. Fawcett, his son Jack
and their companion. Raleigh Rimell
were murdered by Indians.
II did not reach the scene Of the
killing, nor did see the bones, as ]
had been promised by Aloique, the In
dian chief who was guiding me. Alo-
ique turned treacherous, and our own
position became so precarious that we
had to abandon our trip to the arid
woods where the murders we're done
and flee for our own lives down the
Kuluene River"
With Comdr. Dyott arrived William
De Mello. formerly of New Bedford,
Mass; Samuel K. Martin of Chicago,
w. Gerard Martin, jr. of st. George,
Staten Island, and John James White
head, Great Kills. Staten Island. All
members of the party were in good
health.
Traces of Fawcett.
1--WE discovered traces that convince
me Col Fawcett was right in believing
there was once an ancient civilization
in the Amazon wilderness" Comdr
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and other objects among the Indians
near the scene of the colonels death
which certainly belong to an ancient
and highly developed race.
Whether these objects were collected
by the British explorer and taken by the
Indians at the time of his killing, or
whether they were collected by the IN
dianS themselves, we could not establish.
I'VE did not see lights nor ruins, nor
did we hear strange noises, as Col
Fawcett reported. l can readily under
stand how one would imagine the huge
and fantastic rock piles to be ruins and
the reflections of the sun on the high
points of these rock masses to be
lights.
THE country there Is on the fringe
Of the Amazon forest belt. 1t is broken
with open and rocky ground. There
the trees. The Indians and hunters
who reported ruins to Col. Fawcett
might easily have been deceived into
thinking these rock masses were ruins
Of masonry"
Comdr. Dyott brought with him a
snake skin % feet long, the skin of a
black jaguar and pelts of other jungle
animals, Indian paddles and a number
of enormous bows and long arrows used
by the Indians.
DyOtt Followed Trail.
Equipped with Col Fawcett's notes
and information gathered at Rio, Gu
yaba and Bakari Post, the jumping-off
point at the edge of the Matto Crosse
Comdr. Dyott followed the trail of the
land toward the region between the
TapajoS and Xingu rivers. where Col.
Fawcett expected to find the ruins of an
ancient city and other evidence of the
existence of an ancient civilization. To
Comdr. Dyott's surprise, the trail took
a sudden turn east.
Whether Col. Fawcett found that he
could not get to his objective by the
route he intended or was forced TO
change his route because of Indian
trouble I do not know" said Comdr.
Dyott.
eve first picked up Fawcett's trail
at Dead Horse Camp, where discarded
stores and marks on the trees proved
the colonel had come that way We
learned that Col. Fawcett had procured
two canoes and set of down the Kuli-
sevu River. We got canoes ourselves
and put off down the river.
Farther east and paralleling the
vi v,o m VIC a
River, which joins the Kulisevu farther
down The Kulisevu flows into the
Xingu and the Xingu flows north into
the Amazon.
1.-THE Kulisevu proved q back break
ing job. The river is one rapid after
another. Through them we had to
drag our canoes and portage our loads