MISSING EXPLORER
KILLED BY INDIANS?
RIO DE JANEIRO.
The expedition which left New York on December 10 under Commander 0- M. Dyott, to seal ch lor Colonel P. H. Fawcett, the British explorer, has wirelessed! that it thinks it has established that Colo- ] nel Fawcett was killed by Indians in July, 1926, in the Zinga region. Coloiiel Fawcett’s mission was to explore the headwaters of the Amazon, which he believed to be the cradle of civilisation, in search of a lost city, and! since he left Matto Grosso (Brazil) in February, 1925, nothing had been heard of him. J, Sept All-J ? yjAd-Kst 'cnifw vb
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 24, 6 September 1928, Page 6
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104MISSING EXPLORER Stratford Evening Post, Issue 24, 6 September 1928, Page 6
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