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A FRUITLESS SEARCH [BY CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, August 27. Commander George Dyott a former flying “ace,” has returned from a search for Colonel Fawcett and his two companions, who disappeared in the country round the sources of the River Amazon, in the year 1925. He declared that there was only a million to one chance that Fawcett was alive. Commander Dyott found Fawcett’s trunk of clothes, and also traced his camps, and talked to people who had met him; but, in view of the hostility of the Indians who surrounded Dyott’s camp, which was four days’ march from where Fawcett was last seen, Dyott thinks that an aeroplane fitted with adjustable floats would be the only means of ascertaining the explorer’s fate. Colonel Fawcett, with his son and a comrade, Mr. Raleigh Rimmell, left in 1925 for the interior of Brazil, where they were last heard of at Bakairi, near Cuqaba, on May 30, 1925. They were bound for unexplored jungles in the hope of rediscovering an old city on a group of ruins.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1934, Page 7
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