Percy Fawcett Playing Banjo Smokey Hut To Indians Mato Grosso. Sir William Johnson Earlier Fawcett

The Place Was the military indian trading post Posto Simoes Lopez deep in the Mato Grosso of Brazil located on top of a hill with all timber and brush cut down for a half mile radius. The Fawcett party was outfitting for their venture and in a few days would begin their venture to Dead Horse Camp which you see in the photo, a clearing the Colonel knew about from a previous venture leading an Audibon society. Commander George Dyott who led a party to rescue the Fawcett party or learn of their fate - which he did but not exact details - had managed to hire the Fawcett guide for the early part of the exploration who showed them the camp. The Fawqcett Party was then led by a more local more primative indian chief who knew where the Fawcett bones were and exactly which bones remained and he pinpointed them on a river about 50 miles south of the Kalapalo indian camp the Fawcett party visited. It appears a third Kalapalo indian had been hired to take them across the most dangerous indian territory in Brazil and at some point the guide refused, was not paid and ambushed with his nephew the Fawcett party. The chief was never able to show the Fawcett Party bones as George Dyott caused a situation in trading knives with poorer indians than the Kalapalo caused all poor indians to appear and demand steel knives upsetting the balance of power. The Chief saw the situation and retreated and George Dyott and party were left praying for a few more hours to retreat and got the few hours to start boating downriver to civilization about a month away...................The bones were not recovered the 50 miles to the south along a tributary river where the Chief remembered seeing them but were dug up in a cerimony at a lake adjoining the Kalapalo camp to the north. What bones were dug up exactly matched the bones the Chief remembered seeing. Concerning the Title of this page refer to Commander George Miller Dyott in his search for the Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett party in the remote Brazil Mato Grosso 1928 MAN HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1930 First Edition, pg 120-121. George Dyott to authenticate for the Geographical magazines searched the entire length of the 3 month journey of the Theodore Roosevelt - Colonel Candido Rondon expedition down the unknown River of Doubt putting their boats in in the Brazil state of Rondonia east of the Guajaramerins. In 1928 he searched for the Fawcett Party in the unexplored Brazil Mato Grosso. George Dyott while exploring in the Peruvian Amazon on an expedition one time that went awry was found by primative Peruvian Indians who made a slave of him, later taking him to civilization and releasing him. On an evening before the final expedition the Colonel was in a smoke filled hut at Simoes Lopes trading post with an indian tribe playing his banjo. (it is desired to establish a Percy Harrison Fawcett museum at Pelechuco, Bolivia in the Andes mountains at a home he frequently stayed at surveying for the government of Bolivia as a border surveyor, a Major a number of years prior to WW 1 having retired from the British army. The cost of this museum is considerable. A dynamic sponsor is sought. The website to access is http://www.phfawcettsweb.org/sponsoract.htm. It presents very clearly the objectives. This beautiful place (access link immediately below) is where there should be a bronze memorial and primative tenting campsite dedicated to Indiana Jones http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Bolivia_north.jpg/300px-Bolivia_north.jpg It is where the Abuna river after it's 200 mile journey beginning westerly in the high rainforst foothills of the Andes mountains flows into the Madeira river (called also Mamore, Guapore, Itenez), the headwaters of the Madeira which begin in the remote south west Mato Grosso plateau on the north west slope of that plateau where waters flowing north of the south west Mato Grosso plateau divide help create the Amazon basin. Which is plus or minus depending on how you measure it the size of the United States 48 states. The waters flowing south down the south west Mato Grosso plateau divide create in part the Pantanal watery system on the Paraguay river whose waters flow out a different river system at Buenos Aires into the Atlantic. The waters on the north side of the west Mato Grosso plateau flow into the Itenz river flowing west past the still black and African former black Africa slave community of Villa Bella Trinidad Santissima then turning north at the Bolivia Lost World (Noel Kempff National Park) flowing additional hundreds of miles until you see them here in this photo where the river Abuna enters the Madiera river on it's west side, the photo taken from a high bank at the point of entry on the right side of the photo. At this point the waters are flowing north from the direction of the distant sky to the south to Porto Velho, Brazil and from there they will continue on flowing north to the main trunk of the Amazon where up river a short ways is the city of Manaus, Brazil with it's theatre. To the left and right not many miles upriver towards the view of the sky is Guajara-Mirim/Guaharamerin twin communities, Brazil one side, Bolivia the other side. On the left of the Guayaramerins when you reach them in an hour or so you will be looking at the Brazil state of Rondonia and on the right the Bolivia state of Beni. In this photo the Abuna river enters the Madeira from the right in the Bolivia state of Pando where indians naked but friendly still walk down the roads on occasion. Pirates in years back hid upriver in the Abuna their trade down river and many war like indians made their haven the Abuna. The war like indians and pirates are gone. Indiana Jones came down this river in the early 20th century with indian helpers and guards and shot on the Abuna not many miles upriver from this photo at a section called rio negro what may have been the largest Anaconda on record. The spot where the Abuna enters the Madeira here in the photo is an excellent place for a Bronze memorial to Indiana Jones ( to Colonel Percy Fawcett the real person traveling down the Abuna and legend behind Indiana Jones) in a high field Indiana Jones primative tenting campsite on the Brazil or Bolivia side, either. Reiterating you are looking south when you look at the sky. A good Brazil national highway runs on the east side (the left across river). For the most part on the Bolivia side there is pure rainforest. No civilization to mention. The community of Guayaramerin is upriver to the south a relatively few miles and I am familiar with the area having stayed there. Getting there I took busses from La Pas, Bolivia to Santa Cruiz, Bolivia to Trinidad, Bolivia with the final bus from Trinidad taking 44 hours to cover the 300 miles to Guayaramerin. During the wet season the bus some weeks may not run. Returning I took the Bolivia civilian military airline from Guayaramerin back to La Paz on the Junkers to the military airport at Al Alto which is a 13,300 foot altitude airport in the Al Alto suburb of La Paz. It is a few minutes taxi transfer to the John Kennedy airport at Al Alto also on the altiplano. The last stretch of the journey to Guayaramerin was complete with pit stop at a small unknown villiage in the deep amazon Beni state of Boliva to repair a wheel which lasted from 11:00 P.M. untill 3:00 A.M. in the silent night with the smaller farm animals including smaller cattle huddled up against the grass thatch homes as protection from Jaguars. The bus trip should be made at least once and to mention it there is difficult seeing the front section of the bus because of the road dust. Go in the dryest part of the year as there is no special danger of malaria and you need no preventative medicine. The area of the Madeira river you see accessing the link is the grand world kingdom of the Falciparum mosquito. In spots 85% of population are infected at least once in their life by malaria. It is not that dangerous if treated but you do not want to catch it. Likely you will survive with no problems even without treatment. A number of malaria medicines taken ahead of time before arrival will prevent the biting mosquito during breeding season from infecting you with the malaria protozoa. Among U.S. doctors Larium seems to be the recommended favorite. You can not catch malaria from drinking water. Running Amazon water far from human habitation is nearly all potable. It is the most beautiful place in the world and the freshist smelling and scented by nature. But find the breeding season of the mosquito that carries malaria and visit other months than those. Then you have no special worry. Retired british army major Percy Harrison Fawcett, a surveyor for the government of Bolivia, was called back by WW 1 becoming a counter artillery colonel on the European mainland. He did not permit sighting by flash and sound and risked his men to visual sighting saving thousands of innocent civilian lives. He was a great man. (of the two nations where Colonel Fawcett explored and worked as a surveyor Brazil declared war on Germany WW 1. When the United States declared war on Germany WW 1 Bolivia broke relations with Germany and contributed tin to the United States. Peru also supported the United States. It is said one principle reason for the support of Bolivia and Peru was for help to ragain their coastlines having been taken nearly four decades earlier by Chile for the rich mineral gunpowder reserves that existed along the entire coast taken. Bolivia in year 2009 today January 1 still lacking all of it's coast line). The below represents solely my idea on this of two add on to the Percy Harrison Fawcett museum Emmanouil Lalaios of Greece fellow of the Royal Geographical Society wants to build in the Andes Mountains at Pelechuco, Bolivia at a home Colonel Percy Fawcett stayed at frequently when he was a retired British Army Major working as a border surveyor for Bolivia and is looking for contributions towards creating this museum. Most know of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his fictionalized book THE LOST WORLD. Sir Doyle learned of the lost world from his friend Percy Harrison Fawcett who in a project surveyed and explored it working for the government of Bolivia. A bronze plaque memorial to the Colonel on a primitive tenting park belongs near where the Colonel entered the LOST WORLD now known as Noel Kempff National Park, Bolivia from the Brazil side putting his boats in river at the remote Mato Grosso community of former black slaves Villa Bella Trinidad Santissima - which remains to this day African - and crossing the river Itenez (Guapore) to the Bolivia side. And another bronze plaque memorial belongs on a primitive tenting grounds on the Abuna River on the north side which runs along the border of Bolivia with Brazil and also running along the frontier about 10 miles north of the frontier along it is the new paved national highway BR 364 which runs westward through formerly pure pristine jungle rainforst to the Brazil city of Rio Branco. It is of extrordinary value for Brazilians and tourists to be able to hike 10 miles south from highway BR 364 into the primative Bolivia Abuna river valley Percy Harrison Fawcett Memorial Tenting Campsite. Then Major Fawcett in rank gave a report of his journey down this river with indian helpers and indian guards. He did not relish the journey describing the Abuna as the most disease ridden river in the Amazon and full of war like indians and bandits (pirates). Along the way at a section of the Abuna called rio negro he shot what would have been one of the biggest Anacondas on record had he pulled the whole snake out of the water. About 14 feet of the tail was immersed in the river and the remainder of the snake forward wrapped around a river bank tree elevated sighting in on game. The indians were scared of it as Anacondas this size frequently retaliate. However the Colonel was a good shot. The tail was cut off to drift down river and the remainder of the snake would have been consumed. No effort was made to skin it to prove its size. There are exaggerations with anacondas but this one would have gone in real life at over 40 feet and 600 pounds. The section of river it was shot at is called reiterating rio negro and is not far upriver from where Abuna river empties into the Mamore (Madeira) river (for some reason people get the Abuna mixed up with the Amazon Rio Negro river on the north side of the Amazon river. Perhaps because it is close to Columbia which has produced the largest Anaconda on record at 38 feet and about 500 pounds. From rio negro on the Bolivia Abuna one proceeds downriver to Porto Velho Brazil or upriver to Guayaramerin Bolivia. I have stayed at Guayaramerin not many miles away from the shooting of this huge anaconda and would be happy to contribute an amount and a month of labor setting up a primative Fawcett memorial tenting campsite on the Abuna. The url of The Great Web Of Percy Harrison Fawcett is http://www.phfawcettsweb.org the builder of this web being Emmanouil Lalaios of Greece fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. A page is currently being worked on by Emmanouil Lalaios where to and how to donate to the museum. To reiterate a bronze memorial plaque to Percy Harrison Fawcett on a primative tenting Abuna river campsite reachable by hiking from major highway BR 364 is an extrordinary value for Brazilians and Brazil tourists and the tenting grounds and memorial can be reached by boat from Bolivia. The area is entirely pristine. Malaria is not a problem except during the malaria mosquito breeding season, the falciparum. Reiterating I have stayed at Guayaramerin, Bolivia but in non breeding season for malaria mosquitos. I never saw a mosquito. No one gets sick of malaria in non breeding season, or very few do. I became interested first in Colonel Percy Fawcett seeing a part of the book of George Dyott MAN HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE who organized a search for the Fawcett party three years after the party in 1925 went missing. He saw people first to get ideas of where the Fawcett party was. The first person he saw told him the Fawcett party was east of Guayaramerin (across the Mamore from Bolivia the twin community in Brazil Guajara-mirim) not far on the Guapore river in the Brazil state of Rondonia (not far from where Theodore Roosevelt put his boats in in the same state Rondonia to the east) living with indians. It however turned out not to be the case and George Dyott followed the real path of the Fawcett party into the Xingu river region in the south eastern Mato Grosso. My idea of this is this is good history. I am a bystander presenting my opinion and nothing more towards a count of good history within the past 100 years. It is very good history within the 100 year period. And it is not possible to put at this time a memorial bronze plaque up in the upper Xingu river system as those familiar with the Autan expedition know. Some such as Josh Bernstein have gotten into the Kalapalo camp learning a great deal in the camp about ancient archaeology and anthropology but not what happened to the Fawcett party. Which knowlege is today taboo. Except that the Fawcett party was in the Kalapalo camp and left peacefully which is correct, but they do not tell that later they know that the Fawcett party died nearby. Which is the case. Colonel Percy Fawcett before WW1 worked as a retired British Army Major as a trusted surveyor for the government of Bolivia at La Paz. He was a border surveyor his main work on the Bolivia-Peru frontier but who could be called upon to go off the border for a survey search for assets for the Bolivian government. When WW1 broke out he returned to England and was promoted to Lt Col and made a counter artillery Colonel in charge of a counter artillery group on the European mainland. He quickly reversed return artillery shell fire at flash and sound to visual sighting by climbing remaining telephone poles, trees and barn tops. A rare exception was when his weejie board gave him positive readings. On those days sighters were granted a break. He was very economical with Artillery shells. Following WW1 he retured to South America as Colonel Fawcett no longer Major Fawcett. He was interested in archaeology and anthropology and led bird watcher groups following WW1 on expeditions in the remote Brazil Mato Grosso for Geographic magazines which gave him a cost free opportunity to look for archaeological sites of civilizations long lost or ancient people from across the ocean still together and alive. It was not an unpopular pursuit of his day. He was better at it than most having had much experience and command in the Bolivia jungle before WW1. He failed to get a book on explorations, archaeology and anthropology and lost societies published following WW1. He needed a "scoop" for a Geographical magazine and his book. He set off in 1925 from the city of Cuiaba Brazil in the Mato Grosso to an Indian Trading Post where he spoke to a Kalapalo Indian trading there. One night he was in a smoky hut with his son Jack and newspaper photographer Raleigh Rimmell playing his banjo for a Xingu indian tribe to the north of the Kalapalo tribe. In a few days he left to visit the Kalapalo tribe on the Xingu river. They were cannibals but friendly to Europeans and the Fawcett Party had no fear of being eaten. At the Kalapalo camp he would get his needed scoop and from there it was a 15 day hike to outpost trading posts to the east near the Bananal where they would rest and boat down river to civilization. On the way he met a Kalapalo in a non Kalapalo brother camp a day walk distance from the Kalapalo camp who guided him to the brother Kalapalo camp on the Xingu river. Apparantly the payment for service to the guide was to guide them 15 days farther east east north to a remote trading post in the Bananal system thereafter and there was a mistake by both parties in the contract. It was dangerous territory to the east because of warlike indians. He did not pay his guide but instead the Fawcett party were going it alone and were ambushed and killed by the guide and his nephew who he brought into it as a matter of honor. This seems to be the case. The Kalapalo covered up the actions of these two members of the tribe who before the ambush sounded to the tribe like they were going out of control (the payment in the contract could have been anything from a necklace to a gun) but tribe members listening to them believed it was wind. Later explanations have been that the Fawcett party left the Kalapalo camp to move on and they did not know what happened to the Fawcett party thereafter, to explanations that sounds like U.S. Washington D.C. words of social turmoil in the Amazon being responsible. None of it explaining anything. The Colonel had an easy 15 day hike ahead of him through healthy although dangerous country to a remote Bananal peripheral system trading outpost and had he made it he would have gotten his book published and gained a feature article in a Geographic magazine. And there would be continuing well funded ventures. He was also looking in this venture for a place to establish an isolated experimental pure community. The Bananal is a great river island paradise where the Jaguars are said like in the Garden of Eden to graze on the grass. It is the most beautiful paradise in the world and a large national park most visited and most popular in Brazil. His family could live there. The Colonel was going to accomplish many things this expedition. Returning to pre WW1 in Bolivia Colonel Fawcett was accostomed to remote and dangerous rain forest. An example is his report on traveling down the Bolivia Abuna river which he describes as the most disease ridden river in the Amazon complete with war like indians and bandits (pirates). Along this venture down to the Mamore (Guapore, Madeira river), and perhaps then upriver to Guayaramerin or Riberalta Bolivia nearing the Mamore or downriver to Porto Velho Brazil at a section of the Bolivia Abuna called black river, he and indians accompanying him sighted on the bank a huge Anaconda 14 feet of it's tail in the water that still had forty plus feet of length wrapped around a tree elevated sighting for game. He shot it and the tail was cut drifting down river. And they would have then eaten it and backpacked chunks of the body of the upper snake on their way to Guayaramerin or Porto Velho. It was a very big Anaconda, over 40 feet with no exageration, and would weigh 600 pounds, as anacondas 31 and 32 feet in length in the 400 pound class are still seen yearly swimming up river and down river past Guayaramerin, Bolivia. The Abuna river flows eastward in the Bolivia state of Pando 10 to 15 miles south of the Brazil border following the border and along this same section of Brazil Border a new Brazilian paved national highway BR 364 has been built through formerly pure uninhabited jungle. A primative tent campsite on the Abuna river bank would also be a good place to put up a second bronze memorial to Colonel Fawcett. It would be reachable by boat from Bolivia from the Mamore river (Madeira river) and by a half day hike throught the rain forest from the Brazilian Highway BR 364. Neither Brazil or Bolivia seems to have any objections to persons crossing each others border staying within reasonable range in a free trade zone. And if they do they can appoint as deputy aduana official some store owner. The Fawcett memorial on the Bolivia Abuna river at rio negro should be acceptable to Brazil and Bolivia. The indians in that area of the Pando are naked but friendly and the pirates or bandits are no more. The risk of being infected with malaria is minimal except during a few months of the breeding season of the malaria mosquito. Most of the water is potable on the Abuna even that water that has a foul gas smell from rotting vegitation. (If water is not human potable the malaria mosquito can not breed in it. The four gas smell does not bother the malaria mosquito. The indians know the difference between putrid water smell and gas from rotting vegitation.) And malaria is not caught by drinking water but the malaria mosquito infects people by biting them. And on to the LOST WORLD of the immense Noel Kempff Memorial National Park in the center of it the 2,200 square mile circular raised plateau surrounded 360 degrees by much lower jungle with a dozen streams cascading 1,800 feet down off of its edge. It is a young park and what is a world wonder is that it has remained primitive and uninhabited up until this 21st century not by any government design. It is one of the largest and wealthiest in fauna and flora national parks in the world. It is entirely in Bolivia and borders the far south west Brazil Mato Grosso plateau. Before WW1 working for the government of Bolivia Major Percy Fawcett was given orders from La Paz, Bolivia to survey it and search for assets. He began his expedition at Corumba Brazil which is a city built on the Paraguay river on the north west edge of the Pantanal wetlands. Major Fawcett hired on his crew in Brazil and proceeded north of Corumba and up and across the west Mato Grosso plateau divide to where the waters flow not south into the Pantanal but north into the Amazon basin this divide being a southern beginning of the amazon basin. From here he continued on trails reaching the community of Villa Bella Trinidad Santissima the community of entirely black slaves from early Portuguese times (there are crumbling stone buildings there built by ancient Portuguese gold miners to leave the area when the gold ran out to become jungle once more). These viliagers annually have a season of original African dance and dress. The community today is very difficult to reach today except by short strip aircraft. But there are dirt roads to it. The festivities are integral to the society and not commercialized but visitors are welcome. The Fawcett party did not enter the viliage as it passed by due to an understanding there was a long standing plague there and Major Fawcett pointed out as they passed by that at night the residents lock themselves into their dwellings while wild forest indians roam the streets. At Villa Bella Trinidad Santissima by boat the Major Fawcett party headed downriver on the Guapore river (Itenez river and on old maps the upper Madeira river) a relatively few miles to the mouth of the Green river part of Noel Kempff National Park and began the at first gradual ascent onto the plateau surveying and studying assets for Bolivia as they moved along. Finally mounting the plateau they found it rugged and harsh and food not plentifull. The Major was fortunate in replentishing their strength by shooting a deer towards the end of the exploration of the 2,200 square mile plateau. There were people on the plateau and they came across their tracks and could see their fires burning at night but never encountered them and knew nothing about them. On the plateau one man he had hired on sat down and could not be moved begging and praying to be left to die. Major Fawcett had to slap him into a better cognition of what he was talking about. They all made it back down on the thin side physically Major Fawcett joining the Bolivian general, General Pando, in Corumba. Later he told his friend in England Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about the exploration who wrote a fiction book on it THE LOST WORLD about which movies have been made. But Major Fawcett gave the real account also to his Geographical society. The writer several times in the Bolivia state of Santa Cruz has never traveled south east in the state of Santa Cruz Bolivia to Noel Kempff National Park being advised by Bolivians in other parts of Santa Cruz (a south Amazon basin state) it is the only place in Bolivia not to go to. This refers to the fact that a very few years back their was an air strip atop the raised plateau and a Cocain factory there, now removed by the government of Bolivia. It is probably very safe. The writer put off the area for another time not related to danger. I would like to go there coming in from Corumba, Brazil (to where a train from the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia where I have been several times runs to Corumba, Brazil) to Villa Bella Trinidad Santissima in the extreme south west Mato Grosso to the east side of Noel Kempff Park in Bolivia across the river Itenez (Guapore, Madeira). My idea for the memorial to Colonel Fawcett would be a field along the east side (Bolivia side) of the Guapore river that would be converted to a tenting campgrounds with a hand pump for water up river and a latrine downriver and in the middle of the camping grounds a bronz plaque to Major Fawcett as the explorer of Noel Kempff memorial park, with a large aluminum roof overhead supported by cut sandstone block built up square posts and expansive enough to shelter boaters and hikers during a deluge. The reason for the campgrounds and plaque is Major Fawcett deserves it. He also deserves a museum and this museum is a house he used to live in frequently as a border surveyor high up in the Andes mountains at Pelechucho, Bolivia. Reiterating creating the museum is being taken care of in terms of donations by Emmanouil Lalaios of Greece fellow of the Royal Geographical Society who has formed a Percy Fawcett society and can be reached at the email info@phfawcettsweb.org . I am just a bystander with ideas where there should be two memorial plaques in addition to the museum. Members of this society are also seeking to establish the isolated pure community Colonel Percy Fawcett envisioned and was searching for to build. It will be spiritual additionally for all men who have achieved greatness and their spiritual beings, Winston Churchill, Adolph Hitler, Albert Einstein, Charles DeGaul, Theodore Roosevelt, Peter our first Pope, Josephus, Manuel Noriega (living, some day), Martin Luther King Jr and many many more. I understand to an extent the remote pure community as Cololnel Fawcett envisioned it but I do not understand the occult and have never studied it so can not render an opinion beyond the more ordinary of the physical living pure community. Colonel Fawcett saw seers but did not necessarily recommend them to others as he knew they could make mistakes. I believe the bronze plaques, and museum at Pelechucho, are one in the same and should be one project. Colonel Fawcett was intense on everything he did with time also for leisure. He was intent and intense on building his isolated pure community of the highly civilized mankind and would want that built as intensly as he wanted to successfully complete the survey and exploration for assets for Bolivia on the LOST WORLD plateau. As far as donations are concerned and questions and where to send and other matters pertaining to the Percy Harrison Fawcett museum at Pelechucho, Bolivia this is currently being worked on. In the future following completion (soon) it will be found by going to any of the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask and typing in The Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett. That page url reiterating is http://www.phfawcettsweb.org. Public donations will be accepted then by the Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett. My page is an independent page given the o.k. by the Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett to direct to contact the Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett about the Percy Harrison Fawcett Museum at Pelechuco, Bolivia to those interested. The Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett is in it's eleventh year. Beginning three years ago I did some of my own research on Colonel Fawcett in terms of his last expedition, myself following the writings of Commander George Miller Dyott who headed an expedition searching for the Fawcett exploration party in 1928 the Fawcett party entering a remote section of the south east Mato Grosso in 1925. Following George Dyott who was able to hire on Bernardino the Fawcett party guide I have been able to pinpoint exact latitude and longitude of the Dead Horse Camp where the Colonel sent out his last letter to civilization. It is not the coordinate he gave in his last letter to civilization and George Dyott remarks he had already studied the Colonel and that the Colonel covered his trails. Although, taking the latitude given by Colonel Fawcett as the location of his camp at Dead Horse Camp in his last letter out to civilization, already having instructed not to look for them for two years, should someone have began a search earlier than two years that latitude (although he was at a more southerly latitude when he wrote the letter) puts him later in his march east at the Bananal Island of Brazil giving an idea where he would be found staking out his ideal community, a world paradise and the most popular national park in Brazil year 2009. The Colonel was also looking forward in addition to archaeological and anthropological finds to building his lost ideal community where he and his family would settle the remainder of their years. Reaching the Kalapalo tribe the chief in the Kalapalo camp informed Commander Dyott the Fawcett party was dead but negotiations to recover the bones of Colonel Fawcett and other investigation could not begin as the Dyott party trading supplies were about 30 miles down river on the Xingu river. Looking at example of the the steel knives the Dyott party had stashed down river the Kalapalo men were not very interested and would rather swing in their hammocs. The Kalapalo were trading post indians and they could purchase knives equal with ease. The Kalapalo were friendly. George Dyott got along with the Kalapalo. Kalapalo mothers got in arguments with each other whose daughter George Dyott was going to marry. The Kalapalo chief offered George Dyott canoes to go down river with to bring his trade supplies up but none of the Kalapalo men wanted to guide him. A deal was struck however with a payment of jewelry purchased from a well known New York Citiy department store. This they could not purchase at the trading post. Down river on the Xingu the party met primative indians not familiar with trading posts and European culture and the knives in the trading stash had to be proportunately distributed not to upset the downriver military balance of power. But there were not nearly enough knives. Seeing this emerging problem the Kalapalo retreated back up river and the George Dyott party made a beeline as rapidly as possible down river to civilization. My page is http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id28.html James Franklin Lawton (around the time Sandra Bullock and Craig Scheffer made part of their movie FIRE ON THE AMAZON on the Bolivia Mamore (Madeira) river bank at Guayaramerin, Bolivia, at a Guayaramerin sister community Riberalta, Bolivia an indian tribe owned lands outside of Riberalta and in the early William Jefferson Clinton administration NASA to investigate a large meteor strike on their lands successfully negotiated a deal with the tribe for a bundle of musical disks and five hundred 22 cal shells for permission. Then in the late William Jefferson Clinton administration NASA returned and the renegotiated deal demand for a new look at the meteor strike was for several new outrigger canoes with new outboard motors and the creation of a tribal office in Riberalta paid for by NASA for the lifetime of the tribe.)