Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1929, Page 16

i 1 pU) DYOTT PCTURES RETURN JOURNEY ' Thrilling Flight Is Described As He Reviews Results of Rescue Trip. In the eiohteenth and final instaliment ©f his story of the search for Col, Faw- cett, missing explorer, Comdr, Dyott teils ©f his return trip down the Xingu and Teviews the results of his work. BY G. M. DYOTT. Every one slept soundly that night. I know I did. For nine days I had had only a few hours’ sleep. The following day we had to make an early getaway. I awoke automati- cally at 4, started the kitchen fire and roused my companions into action. The sensations we experienced during the next week or so were decidedly odd. We quite expected to be followed and had, therefore, always to be on the lookout for trouble. From day to day, we never knew what we might not run into in the way of rapids or a mix-up with other Indian tribes, especially the warlike Suyas who roamed the eastern bank. Arrow Is Ominous Warning. One morning as we passed the mouth of a small creck coming in on our right we observed an arrow planted in the center of a miniature sand bank, This sign means “Keep off the grass.” Need- less to say, we were taking no risks and continued our flight down river without ® pause. So far as T am aware, only two writ- ten records exist of any one descend- ing the whole Xingu. First, that of a German scientist, who made the jour- ney 40 years ago; and_secondly, the rather brief story of a Brazilian naval officer called Fontura, who made it in 1916. Both of these expeditions fol- lowed the Ronuro, which is the most westerly affluent of the Xingu. No one had ever made the through trip by way of the Kuluene or Kuluseu, which was the route my party took. During the intense excitement of the past weeks, Bill De Mello had been unable to get off any of the many wire- less messages which I had written for our friends in New York. It was essen- tial to stop in the middle of our flight and make a serious attempt to get through these thpusands of miles which separated us from our families, both in New York and England. It caused us a delay of three whole days to do this and the risks it involved were patently great. We found a suitable spot in which to camp by following an inconspicu- ous side channel and slipping in back of & small island where we would be well concealed from passing Indians. Angry Indians Ever Present Threat. ‘When once we had disposed of our message to America our minds wers at rest and we could devote every atom of our energy to getting out of the Xingu country as quickly as possible. We could not afford to waste another day in idleness. The possibility of angry Indians following us still existed. There was the thought of starvation ahead which loomed larger day by day as our stores .dwindled. Then there was the ebbing powers of the men. They already showed signs of cracking up, fever and sickness being the most potent causes of their waning strength. If we were to move quickly it meant lighter loads in the canoes. The one made of bark whose.carrying capacity was limited to & couple of men and two boxes could not be replaced or its load lessened. But the heavily loaded can- vas boats were drawing too much water and the only way to improve matters was to throw away some of our stores. As we would have no more time to de- vote to wireless, that was where the ax fell first. Heavy “B” batteries, along with many cases of oil and gasoline, were left behind. Ten thousand feet of motion picture film we threw ruthlessly into the river. Three hundred rolls of ?tlé; camera film also shared the same ate. It proved fortunate that we aban- doned all of this material when we did, because a day or so later the smooth, tranquil river over which we had made such remarkable time fleeing from the Indians was transformed into an angry torrent of cataracts and whirlpools. Every several days we were in con- tact with a tribe of Indians known as Juruanas. They were at war with the Kamaiulas, and proved ungommonly friendly to us. They helped us through a particularly bad group of rapids and generally made themselves useful. On the afternoon of August 23 our attention was attracted by a cloud of blue smoke ahead of us, While we looked and wondered the blows of an ax sounded clear and distinct. Realizing that white men were about, we shouted as loud as we could, and the next in- stant a rubber gatherer’s canoe darted out and hurriedly’ scuttled off down- stream like a frightened rabbit. ‘White Men Astonished. 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