JUNGLE DRAMA
MISSING EXPLORERS A FRUITLESS SEARCH .!• * _____ . (United Press Association.) . (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ' ./■, > ■ ■/ ~ LONDON, August. 27. ; ' {Received August 28, at 9 p.m.) • ; Commander George Dyotfc; a former flyiilg ace, has returned from' a search for Colonel Fawcett;and' his companions, who disappeared in tile country round the. sources of the Amazon in. 1925. fie declared that.there was only a million to one change that Colonel Fawcett was alive. ‘ He • found Fawcett's* trunk and clothes, traced the .camps, aiid talked to people "whp ! . had met him, hut in view of the hostility of the Tndidfis who surrounded Commander Dyott’s cainjpi which was four days’ march';from where Fawcett ’ was r last seen. Commander Dybtt .thinks that an aeroplane fitted with adjustible floats is-the only means of . ascertaining the explorer's fate. - Colonel Fawcett, his son, and Raleigh Rimthelj left ;in ■ 1925 for'the interior of Brazil, where they were last heard Of at Bakairi, near C.uyaba,:'pn May SO, 1925. They wore bound-for unexplored jungles in the hope of rediscovering; an old city or group of fiiips.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19340829.2.94
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 22353, 29 August 1934, Page 9
Word Count
171JUNGLE DRAMA Otago Daily Times, Issue 22353, 29 August 1934, Page 9
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in