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FATE OF COLONEL FAWCETT ANOTHER FRUITLESS SEARCH Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 27. Commander George Dyott, a former flying ace, has returned from a searcl for Colonel Fawcett and his companions, who disappeared in the country round the sources of the Amazon in 1925. He declared that there wasonly a million to one chance that Colonel Fawcett was alive. He found Faw cett’s trunk and clothes, traced thi camps, and talked to people who had met him, but in view of the hostility of the Indians who surrounded Com mander Dyott’s camp, which was fom days’ march from where Fawcett was last seen, Commander Dyott think? that an aeroplane fitted with adjustible floats is the only means of ascertaining the explorer’s fate. Colonel Fawcett, his son, and Raleigh Rimmell left in 1925 for the interior of Brazil, where they were last heard of at Bakairi, near Cuyaba, on May 30, 1925. , They were bound for unexplored jungles in the hope of rediscovering an old city or group of ruins.
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Evening Star, Issue 21811, 29 August 1934, Page 7
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