Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1929, Page 22

DYOTT ESTIMATED CHANCES AS 3030 should find ourselves in. cou to~white' men, or we ht end up in some remote e of the ' interior. There was an un- certainty about our movements which complica*ed the situation considerably. At .the same time I must admit it made our task infinitely more inter- esting. S Reports of Whereabouts False. All reports of Col. Fawcett's move- Commandeerells of Start of | ments after passing beyond the pale Rescue Expedition Seek- ing Fawcett. I3 In the seconid. article of his series, which began:yesterday, telling the story of the quest jor the lost er- plorer, Col. Fawcett, Comdr. G. M. Dyott tells of the start across the Matto Grosso of Brazil toward the jungle that swallowed up the miss- ing British explorer. BY G. M. DYOTT. None of my tompanions had previous experience in the field of exploration. ‘Their knowledge lay in other direc- tions. Willlam De Mello and Gerard Martin were the radio experts. J. J. ‘Whitehead and Sam Martin made up the photographic staff. The most essential consideration was to have men who would pull together. The men who were chosen were all fine types, keen as mustard and ready to make godd at any price. Yet, whether we should be able to locate three specks of..white humanity in those thousands of miles of jungle greenery was ‘problematical from the start. Figures Rescue Chances. 1 estimated that our chances were about 50-50, depending on the roqute Fawcett had taken. The qualifications for our success were both varied and unique. We needed the intuition of Sherlock Holmes to sift truth from fiction, the skill of a big-game hunter, to track our quarry, the tact of an ambassador - to ' deal with awkward situations and @ ‘certain amount of that same hardiness; which Fawcett him- self possessed torcarry us through such difficulties ‘as would beset our path. It should be pointed out that “our expedition was,_not organized to ex- plore Brazil, but to hunt for Fawcett wherever he might be. Whither his | ahead of our .coming. trail would lead us we knew not and | we found an army of pack mhg:’: cared less. It was possible that we Masterpiece Bodies by Fisher, new and unprecedented treatment of fines - as well as of colors, not only dis, of civilization proved entirely false. He never went near the River of Death as reported by certain imaginative writers, Neither did he strike north of the Pa- ranatinga, s many supposed. Stories circulated that he had been seen living on a farm or sitting by the roadside, devoured by mosquitoes were proved 8s inaceurate as they were ridiculous,. On the whole, the jumble of nonsense that appeared in print made the mystery all the harder to unravel. On one point we were ‘certain, because we had it in the colonel’s own handwriting; he left the government outpost of Baikari May 21, 1925, » This was to be our starting point. How we got there is a story in itself which need not be detailed here. There were certain unexpected developments which necessitated a long stay in Rio, but the help which the Brazilian goy- ermment extended facilitated our move- “River Teady. to" transport and it + T%.3 impossible for us to have . col- animals in such numbers on short notice. For several weeks they had been assembling in response to the government appeal. By twos and threes they had. come from outlying districts. Some had covered 90 to 1 miles, travel in easy stages of 15 to 20 ngiles a d Xy w ‘Without any Joss of tfine we pushed on to the post and spent.a couple of days there arranging cargoes. Bill De Mello and Jerry Martin were very suc- cessful in their early radio experiments, They: established frequent contacts with the United States of America, telling our friends of the satisfactory progress. ‘we were making. On June 11 we were ready to amove, and ‘what a Sight- it ‘was! .’ No: such e ition had' ever ventun‘?‘ fnto -t " parts ' before, There were .64 bullocks carrying loads varying in wdflg from 80 to 180 pounds apiece, 10 les ; ‘equally - heavily laden and 26 men, to say nothing of a host of insects that had attached them- selves to us, hoping to get a free ride to the jungles. Travel in Four Groups. ‘We ‘set out in four groups, each one a half day's march behind the other. ‘To have tiaveled as a single unit would have been well nigh out of the ques- tion,as pasture on the central-plateau ‘would have'| RTAR. WASHINGTON, us:| dry season. T doubt 1f It would have to find posaible camping ‘where such & number of beasts graze. Mules fare worse than bullocks in Matto Grosso. Most of the grass is so coarse that it cuts their lips and they must starve to death with food under their very noses. Bullocks, on the other hand, can find food, but they crumple up under the heat of the noon sun and can only travel at night or during the cooler hours of the day. Yet, who would want to be a bulleck? When food gets scarce it is the un- fortunate bullock who is sacrificed cn the altar of necessity. 1 always felt » strong compunction against doing this. To slaughter and then devour the meat of one’s hardworking animals hardly seemed a just reward for their faithful service in the interest of science. On this occasion we did not have to fall back upon the pack ani- mals to replenish our -darder, because we carried a special stock of dried meat with us weighing 600 pounds. ‘The bulk of our cargo consisted of food and plenty of it. You cannot enter this country without it. Game is not to be depended .upon and such as. one kills can only be regarded as 50 much extra. To this end we were loaded down with sacks of rice, beans, farina, dried meat, coffee, sugar and salt, and upon these we subsisted the places could motion picture cameras, tripods, two radio sets, 2¢| TEACHER IS ACCUSED program. (Copyrisht. 1920, by D. C,” MONDAY, 'J ge to lug about, every ounce of which was essential if we were to carry out our ambitious / the North American Rhiencss jewspaper Alliance. (In his next article Comdr. Dyott tells of the dreaded Gayapo Indians and the trek across their territory.) One Killed, Five Hurt as Bus Skids. LEXINGTON,, Miss., January 28 (#), —Mrs. L. Robeson, about 50, of Chicago was killed and five others were hurt yesterday when a bus of the Stages, Inc., skidded on a muddy curve near Tchula and overturned. The bus was northbound from Jackson. Capitol e The cost of firing a triple-turret sa- lut: by the H. M. 8. Nelson is $2,100, according to a recent estimate. It Costs Time ments later and resulted in our safe re- turn to civilization. Innumerable efforts prevent our going. I received: letters telling me that my life was in danger and that the entire expedition would be | wiped out. Tn spite of all ‘nmings “we |* made a start and on June 8 we found |- ourselves -at_ Baikari. iy ‘The hand ~of civilization spreads |. lightly over the State of Matto Grosso. At the extreme tip of one tapering fin- ger a group of shacks can be found clustering dejectedly about a flagpole. This is Balkari Post, or Simoes -Lopes,’ as it is most generally called, the base were made ‘to is neyer plentiful, especially during the from which the, gavernment' hopes to| develop the unknown lands which stretch away for countless miles toward the Amazon watershed. It took Fawcett & whole month to get here from abh, the state capital. 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OF KIDNAPING YOUTH Father Swears Out Warrant for[- Woman, 35, Who Disappeared With Kis Som, 17. By the Associated Press. ELLAVILLE, Ga., January 28.—A search was in prospect today for Mrs. M. M. Wellons, 35-year-old school teacher, and Edwin Chapman, her 17- year-old Budyu. following a formal charge of kidnaping lodged against the woman yesterday. The couple disap- peared Sunday a week ago. The kid- naping warrant was sworn out by W. C. Chapman, father of the boy. Mrs. Wellons left behind a husband and an 1l-year-old son, but took the family automobile, according to Sheriff E. C. Rigsby. She recently had been paid $200 salary and, officers said, had borrowed $300 of the farm, where she and her husband lived. The search was and Money to you corne- downtown shop- Handy to where you go— or from 7 p.m. to 1 am. Wash”—uwhile it’s in our keeping. . 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