LOST CITY SOUGHT IN AMAZON VALLEY

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6801, 3 January 1929, Page 9

LOST CITY SOUGHT IN AMAZON VALLEY

RIO DE JANIE RO. The Brazilian-American scientific expedition,, headed by J. Tozzi Caivao, which will search for a lost city belicved to have been built in the Amazon Valley by the Phoenicians centuries ago, has arrived here on board the steamship Van Dyck.. Mr. Calvao, who has mado 12 other expeditions into the jungles of the Amazon Valley, declared that no white man has ever penetrated into the region where the Indians believe the lost city exists. Indians, living many miles apart, speak of the city with awe, he said, The city is believed by Calvao to bo on the northwestern slope of the Sierra del Norte Mountain range.

i “Previous trips into the region have resulted in the finding of traces of the Phoenician language-in vases and pottery,” Calvao said. “The territory we intend to visit lies to the southeast of a rock at tho confluence of the Rio Negro and the Amazon River. A largo rock, bearing the carving of a ship of tho Phoenician typo and an arrow pointing in a southeasterly direction, has been uncovered at that point. The expedition will first seek the headwaters of the Aripuana River, which has only been explored for a distance of 200 miles. A trip through Cuyaba, capital of the State of Matto Grosso, to Vilhena, 450 miles distant, will then bo made.”' The waters of tho Aripuana River, so far as ho has explored them, contain cannibal fish, Calvao said, and other specimens will be studied as the expedition progresses in its mapping of tho remote lands. Mrs. Calvao, who accompanied her husband on two previous trips to the jungles, is a member of tho party of eight which will constitute the expedition. Norman Taylor of tho Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, who will go as a botanist in the expedition, will meet Mr. Calvao hero later. The expedition expects to spend 10; months in the jungles. -Communication.' with tho outside world will bo maintained by short-wave radio equipment. The radio will also be used to locatei positions in the wilds.