LOST BRAZIL EXPEDITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20074, 11 October 1928, Page 11

LOST BRAZIL EXPEDITION.

FATE OF COLONEL FAWCETT. KILLED BY THE INDIANS. [fkom our own correspondent.] SAX FRANCISCO. SeD. 19. Mr. George M. Dyott, who set out at tho beginning of the year to solve tho mysterious disappearance of Colonel Fawcott, tho British'explorer, and his companions in tho Brazilian wilderness three years ago, now reports regretfully .that the 1* awcett expedition perished at the hands of hostilo Indians during July, 1925, five clays after it crossed the Kulneno River, an affluent of the Xingu.

Dyott reports that ho followed Fawcett's trail, although hampered by losing food and supplies iu tho rapids. He met Indians who went with Fawcott. They agreed to show him tho remains of Fawcett and his companions in tho jungle, but complications with another tribo prevented Dyott reaching tho spot. Radioing his news from tho Kulueno River, Dyott said his position was critical, with his resources at an end and many of his men stricken with fever. He had had serious trouble with the Indians, but hoped to reach Para, at tho mouth of (he Amazon in October, lie stated that bo had been forced to abandon his radio equipment, and that (his would be his last message to civilisation.

]t innv bo recalled that Dyolt, when Fawcett sent his last message on jMay 30, 1925, luid just returned fvoiu a trip up the River of Doubt, and immediately organised a rescue expedition. He had 15,000 pnplications from all over the British Empire, as well as from tho United States, to join tho expedition. The most persistent believer in the safety of Fawcett has been his wife, who claims to have received several telepathic messages from him and only as recently as last month reiterated her belief in his safety. Sho then asked tho newspapers of tho world to deny tho reports of Colonel Fawcett's death. A Philadelphia missionary, Leonard Legtors, confirms Dyott's report, stating that he, Legters, had stumbled on Fawcett's trail, encountered a mulo 'the British explorer had abandoned, trinkets distributed oy him to Indians and had sat on Fawcett's trunks in a hut of a tribal ruler whoso territory adjoined that in which Fawcett met his end.