Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1929, Page 22

22 - ALOIQUE CONSENTS ~ TOMDDYOTTHONT Explorer Enlists Indian as Guide to Take Him to Fawcett’s Last Camp. ¢ iment of Comdr, Dyott's story of his search for Col. Faw- cett, missing explorer, he tells of Ris en- counter with hostile Wicury Indians in his attempt to reach Fawcett's regorted last camp, BY G. M. DYOTT. The next problem was how to get Aloique to join me. And how to ex- plain to him that I wanted to see evi- dences of the Fawcett murder. Another point to consider was the matter of food. My party had lost a good deal in the rapids. I could not ab- sent myself very long without endan- gering the lives of my men. The rate at which our store of presents was dwindling was & further question to consider. I might not have enough to go around, especially if on descending the Xingu we Tan into other tribes as avaricious as the Anauquas. Barely an hour after starting the In- dians suggested that we spend a little time fishing. We had been joined by another canoe filled with Kalapalos, and the occupants of all four boats were hungry. We pulled up at a favor- able spot on the left bank at the mouth of a stream called Acutzu. Joso Cli- maco and myself dropped lines over- board. Neither did we have long to wait for results. Large piranhas were plentiful. ? At 3 pm. we reached the mouth of yet another river on the right bank, which the Indians called Tanguro. Once more lines were produced and our ef- forts promptly rewarded. Incidentally a 15-foot snake wriggléd ‘up uncon- cernedly on to the sand bar where I was standifg. . I pursued it with my lar~= knife, but before I was able to sever the head from the body it had squirmed back into the river. The Indians obtained their fish with bow and arrow. They did not use hooks, although we gave them plenty and instructed them in the art of using them. Between us we managed to pro- cure all we could eat and were never short. The Indian appetite for food is never satiated. He kills everything in sight, no matter how much he already “has. Our canoes were full of fish, a slimy, glittering mass of silver and gold. Yet on passing a small lizard sunning itself on the branch of a tree that extended over the river Aloique bade me shoot it. It is considered a dainty morsel, and, willing to oblige, I eased off my rifie, never thinking for a moment that I could possibly hit so small a target from a moving canoe. To my amazement, the bullet passed clean | through its head. : Keeps His Reputation. Aloique let out an exclamation of | surprise, and for the next few days was | continually’ me to shoot at other | things. I felt it the moral lesson of | that fluke shot was toe good to lose, so| 1 never ruined my reputation by firing | another round. Aloique repeatedly asked me to give him my rifle, and, having now witnessed with what accuracy its bullets sped, he ‘was keener than ever to possess it. ‘We slept that night in an agreeable #pot and enjoyed good meals of fish. { _ Next morning, as I sat by the camp-| : fire en, a baked piranha for break: . fast I tried to figure out some way of approaching Aloique. To convey to his simple mind the thought that I wanted | to ses what remained in the jungle was no easy ed my brain to thi in which to interpret my ideas. Alongside the fire was a pile of fish bones picked clean. As I gazed at them in a semi-conscious way, Aloiquw came up and sat down on the opposite side 8f the comfortable blaze. I looked at him in surprise. He was wearing a pair of khaki trousers to keep warm. That pair of trousers must have belonged to Fawcett because they were distinétly of English cut. I had a sample of the material from which Fawcett's clothing was made, and al- though in texture it seemed to agree, it struck me as being considerably lighter than the specimens which I carried in my baggage. Rifle Lures Him Along. As my eyes turned once more to the direction of that pile of bones an idea suddenly came to me. “What do you call those?” I asked Aloique, pointing to the remains of the fish alongside the fire. “Itsurapa,” he replied. Then said I by means of signs, “If you show me the bones of the caraiba, where they lie in the jungle, I will give you my rifle and a shirt.” He did not jump at my offer, but quietly nodded his head in assent. going over with him the number of days necessary to make the journey I inti- mated that we would take at least five days to get to the locality where the tregedy occurred, but he corrected me and said it would take us only four. In order to check him up still further I drew in the sand rough diagrams of how we would go. I further explained that I would give him presents when both of us were safely back at our start- ing point. He seemed to know the pre- cise locality and had apparently visited the spot recently, although on a previous occasion he had denied crossing the Kuluerie River. Of his own accord he volunteered the information that only large bones remained, indicating the skull, pelvis and certain bones of the leg. I was thoroughly satisfled with the way things had progressed, and, feeling confident that Aloique fully understood me and I in turn underst him, I let the matter drop. At that moment the voice of Joao Climaco sounded from the foot of the high bank, asking me to help him with cne of the canoes. It had filled with water and sunk during the night. Rescue of Canoe Is Laborious. ' Laboriously we managed to rescue it from the bdttom of the stream and, I ra Stopped in a Day! 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C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, ' 1929. having patched up the holes muh.] set out at 6:30. It was to be an event- ful day for us. My companion, de- cidedly nervous of what was going to happen, was getting more and more on edge. If it was not Indians by day it was jaguars by night that caused him_anxious moments. His alarm reached a climax as we were pudd.u% around a bend and detected four sm canoes dart across our path and make fast on a sand bar, “Wicuru Indians,” whispered Matuala to me. ‘With that our four canoes hurriedly drew alongside each other. In this formation we drifted slowly down- stream toward the new arrivals. A meeting was inevitable and obviously not to the liking of either the Anaquas or Kalapalos, for all remained silent and looked very glum. On drawing near the sandbar one of the Wicuru canoes pointed its bow out into the stream to intercept us. Not a word was said. I shouted to the strangers in order to relieve the tension. It had its effect. 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