The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-03-17

him after four days. He told me
he was Colonel Fawcett and asked
me to communicate with any Brit
ish consulate and with O farmer
named Paget.'
This was all the information I
could get except that he had been
held prisoner for over FIVE years
and that the last Of his companions
had died the year before. (His COM
panions were his son, Jack, and
an Englishman named Raleigh
Rimell.)
When he told me this he became
SO emotional he could not continue
speaking. He said nothing con-
corning the treatment given him
by the Indians. He wore Indian
garb. His skin was almost as dark
as an Indians. It was obvious that
he was O white man.
He did not appear to be suffer-
ing from hunger or sickness. But
obviously he was completely DOM
mated by the native chief.
promised him I would deliver
his message and set Off for Bar
retos, believing there was British
consulate there. I reached Bar
retos after many days slow travel
through the jungle but found no
British officials. then started for
Sac paulo and after six weeks diff
flcult journey made my report to
the British Consul General Arthur
Abbott He considered my report
the most definite clue yet found to
Colonel Fawcett's fate.
believe the man saw IN the
jungle was the missing explorer.
Rattin speaks several Brazilian
dialects as we'll as the difficult
Guarany language and believes that
this knowledge prevented him from
being held captive at the indian
village. He said, however, he never
had been bothered by the natives
during his II years experience In
the jungles.
Reference to communicating
with "a farmer named Paget pre-
sumably referred to Sir Ralph
Spencer Pagent, who was British
am bassador to Brazil from 1918 to
Fawcett was making periodical
trips into the Brazilian jungle.
The present ambassador to
Brazil is Sir william Seeds, ap.
pointed In 1880. It was believed
that Rattin might have confused
the word farmer" with former"
Doubt Expressed
New York, March 17-(UP)-
Commander g. M. Dyott, British
explorer, who went into the South
American jungles in 1928 to search
for Col II. p. Fawcett, expressed
doubt to-day that the story OF
stephen Rattin, who claims to have
seen Fawcett, IL authentic.
"There are certain portions or
his story" Commander Dyott said,
(which seem very vague. ! would
want much further information
before would 90 back into the
BraSilion jungles to renew the
search"
Commander Dyott said Rattin is
very vague as to the locality In
which he claims to have seen
Fawcett.
'He locates the place as be-
tween the Xingu and Madeira riv-
eIs," the explorer snid, pointing
out these rivers on q large map.
'".You can SEQ for yourself" he
continued, that there are about
100000 square miles Of territory
between the Xingu and Madeira"
Commander Dyott said that II
RattIn had actually seen Fawcett,
he surely would have been more
explicit In locating the point OF en-.
counter.
Tho commander IL still inclined
TO believe that Fawcett was killed
by Indians at q place about 400
miles northeast Of Cuyabo near
the Kuluene river. Indians along
this river and natives at Cuyabo,
he said, told him that the explorer
had perlshed five days after cross
ing the Kuluene.
about twice q year said Com.
mander Dyott. "stories arise con-
cerning Fawcett---all of them OF
O similar nature. Some person trav-
cling In Brizal reports having eth
er seen the colonel or having heard
Of his whereabouts through In
dams.
II have checked all these stories
but none has developed into any
thing approaching truth. This lat.
est one may be true, but would
want more facts before ! organ
One story widely circulated in
Brazil about a year ago, he said,
was to the effect that Fawcett had
been seen in the interior, in pos
session of a fabulous hoard of
sold. and that he was waiting for
Commander Dyott to come in and
help him carry the money out.
Commander Dyott, an English
man. maintains an elaborate lab
oratory in New York. Since his
South American expedition of 1928
he has done some exploration in
India.