Chief Aloique Taking G Dyott To Fawcett Bones On Suya River Xingu River Military Balance Interrupted

Most logically it was an unfriendly time and there were hostile Suya indians wandering up to the line of the Kalapalo. The Colonel Percy Fawcett party was warned of this danger by the Kalapalo as they began their march of fifteen to twenty days south east to the nearest remote trading post in the march to the Bananal proper..............Aloique the Chief of the Nahacua tribe the close brothers of the Kalapalo tribe told George Dyott a strange story that as he began his four day trek south from the Kalapalo camp to the Suya river the Colonel shot a yellow bird and put up on the edge of the Kalapalo land the "yellow feathers" which is a common indian language in the Mato Grosso meaning beware, that to anyone following the Fawcett guns might begin barking. Aloique seemd uncertain of the reason for the feathers. His only certainty was that the Fawcett party marched four days south of the Kalapalo camp to the upper Suya river where the party was killed by Suya and he would take the Dyott to the scene where the Fawcett bones lay. As the upper Suya river was a common hunting grounds of the Suya, Xvantes and Kalapalo the Kalapalo chief may have ordered the Fawcett party killed as a danger to Kalapalo minding their own business in the course of everyday life. It is a scenario that can not be dismissed. There may have been no putting up of the yellow feathers. Chief Aloique may not have been telling Commander George Dyott the truth. WW 1 VI corps, late 1916, European mainland. A Lt Col Percy Fawcett arrived to take up the new post of corps - counter battery colonel and immediately announced there would be no counter reprisals against German artillery by sound ranging or flash ranging but all counter reprisals would be based on visual ranging. And exception would be that he had a wee jee board and German gun locations on his board as provided by spiritual forces would be fired on......He may have also ordered a few shells into German lines based on his wee jee board positioning? I would guess?...... This basic information reference Michael Dash, the Charles Fort Institute, taken from WW 1 researcher, Richard Holmes, TOMMY. It all added up to the reputation of the MAD colonel Percy H Fawcett. Colonel Fawcett before World War ! then holding the rank of Major was border surveyor for Bolivia and the borders of Bolivia today are the Fawcett borders. The Colonel was a smart artillery officer. To zerro in by flash and sound produced mostly dead farm animals, dead farm people and destroyed houses and barns. Going up remaining telephone poles and trees and barn tops and sighting directly got the most at best economy in terms of destruction of German artillery and other German positions. And the Germans were waiting for and got a lot of the British spotters. And this is the way Colonel Fawcett did it except for a few targets his wee jee board showed him were enemy artillery positions. Colonel Percy Fawcett was a ranking experienced military officer and knew not to leave his flanks exposed. However he was not at war with an enemy in South America. There had to be sleep and Fawcett parties did not stand guard doing shifts at night. But rather all slept and elected to take that chance. This can be read in an early May 1910 Report of The Royal Geographical Society. Colonel Fawcett (then Major Fawcett) was commissioned by the Government of Bolivia to explore what has become known as the LOST WORLD in a novel of the Colonel's friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and movies made about. The purpose of the exploration was to survey and look for assets (rubber trees, gold etc) in that unknown part of the state of Santa Cruz Bolivia in the southern extreme of the Amazon basin just north of the Pantanal. Beginning at Corumba, Brazil on the Paraguay river the Colonel and his party struck north through remote territory still remote today to the community of Vila Bela de Santissima Tinidad which is a community of former Brazilian black slaves. George Dyott in his book MAN HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE describes the community as a once prosporous gold mining city with sophisticated buildings deserted centuries back now populated with negroes darting between the buildings like black alley cats. It remains black year 2008 but they are sophisticated and hold African origin festivities each year all people from the outside who can make it in are welcome to come. Vila Bela de Santissima Trinidad is located on the east bank of the Guapore River where the river turns east into the Mato Grosso plateau highlands and headwaters and the Guapore is actually the headwaters of the Amazon Madiera river. The Guapore flows into the Mamore river which in not many miles changes name to the Madiera and in some old maps and more recent maps also they are all the Madiera river flowing into the main trunk of the Amazon not far from the city of Manaus. On the west side of the Guapore in Bolivia across from Vila Bela De Santissima Trinidad could be seen far in the distance the more than 2,000 square mile elevated plateau that no one knew anything about. That plateau and the rainforst lands surrounding it were the destination of the Major Fawcett party. Colonel Fawcett describes the land atop the plateau as full of sharp rocks and gulches. They came across the footprints of people and could see their campfires at night in the distance. They knew nothing about them but were on their minds night as a potential danger. However they did not pull shift guard and slept. They were left alone. And likely the same applied a decade and one half later in the Xingu region. They were not at war with anyone nor did they have any real reason to believe anyone would pose danger enough to post shift guard. If you want to read the report of Colonel Fawcett atop the LOST WORLD go to http://physics.gallaudet.edu/charting/the-park/lost-world/journal-1910.html . This particular Bolivian Amazon world remains lost today and people must by law beyond the fringes employ an armed guard to go in there with them. It is now a Bolivia national park undeveloped except on the fringes. Anthropologist Ellen Basso lived a number of years with the Kalapalo in the eastern Xingu Mato Grosso. She asked the chief Enumi about something she had read that the Kalapalo had killed the Fawcett party. He vigorously denied it stating "outsider" come into the xingu exterminating entire communities - read THE LAST CANNIBALS, University of Texas Press, Austin by Ellen B. Basso, chapter Kudyu's Story Of The Wanderers. The meaning outsiders killed the Fawcett party - or being the Fawcett party were outsiders, the Kalapalo tribe did not kill them, but likely instead indians that had suffered from outsiders or identified with the suffering indians killed the Fawcett party. The explanation of Enumi does not mesh with explanations given by the Kalapalo privious to Ellen Basso's stay with the tribe or since her return to the U.S. state of Arizona. What happened to the Fawcett party must be regarded as still an open question. The first explanation given to George Dyott by a local chief Aloique was that the Colonel's bones lay over on the upper Suya river ambushed by the Suya. But twenty five years later the bones of the Colonel were dug up in front of the residing indian agent at the green lagoon lake near the Kalapalo camp on the upper Xingu river where the Tanguro river enters some 50 miles north of the upper Suya river where the bones were supposed to be resting over towards the Bananal. To reiterate Commander George Dyott was told the bones lay some 4 days march south of the point twenty five years later they were dug up at ( See MAN HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE by G M Dyott, The Bobbs - Merrill Company, Indianapolis, copyright 1930, first edition). George Dyott had traveled to the Kalapalo camp with a small party which included the Nahuaca chief Aloque the Nahauca being brothers to the Kalapalo and participating in joint ceremonies. The remainder of the Dyott party took their trade goods and transmitter down a tributary of the Xingu to where that tributary entered the Xingu a good number of miles east downriver of the Kalapalo camp on the Xingu river where the Tanguro river enters. To do some trading and work out a plan George Dyott showed the Kalapalo knives stating he had enough for the entire tribe if they would take him downriver to bring them back. However the Kalapalo were wealthy trading post Posto Simoes Lopes indians and the knives did not catch their enthusiasm. They courteously offered George Dyott two canoes for the trip but no Kalapalos were willing to assist. At that point George Dyott remembered some jewelry his wife had picked out for him at a Manhattan department store. For this the Kalapalo were enthusiastic about helping. George Dyott had let the chief Aloique carry his loaded gun for half a day and Aloique came to want the gun and offered to bring George Dyott to colonel Percy Fawcetts bones which Aloique pinpointed as over on the upper Suya river. Aloique went with George Dyott with the Kalapalos and their canoes down the Xingu to get the supplies the majority of the Dyott party were guarding. Word got out and many non sophisticated non trading post indians began coming upriver for knives which were in a limited supply and were becoming demanding. Aloique and the Kalapalo sensed the situation and departed in the middle of the night back to the Kalapalo camp. And the following morning more non sophisticated very primative indians were traveling up river for knives very damanding. What George Dyott had done was upset the balance of military power in the Xingu those not possessing steel knives being subject to the whims of the brother unsophisticated indians who had knives. Thus all had to have steel knives to maintain the balance. Recognizing the problem with more and more indians coming up river for steel knives and a dwindling supply the Dyott party in the middle of the black hours of morning made a beeline down the Xingu without looking back and made it to civilization after a lengthy period of time. The chance therefore did not materialize to hunt for the Colonels bones. And Aloique did not get his gun. The Kalapalo to reiterate were Posto Simoes Lopes trading post customer indians. They were friendly with George Dyott and Kalapalo mothers were very serious about marrying their daughters to him. Of weapons George Dyott found out they were at least well equipped with steel knives and had no interest in them (probably they were in possession of many guns also). And they did not pressure for presents. Two days down river on the Xingu from the Kalapalo camp George Dyott was to find the indians did not possess steel knives and every dozen knives given out as presents to one group of indians upset the military balance making it necessary that dozens more must possess steel knives and the indians were not civil like the more wealthy Kalapalo but pressured for kives. Sensing things could get out of hand the Kalapalos accompaning Dyott returned back home leaving in the middle of the night. George Dyott feared he would not make it back upriver to the Kalapalo camp on the Tanguro river due to the growing demands of the less civilized indians on the farther downriver Xingu and in the middle of the night the Dyott party made a successfull beeline to reach civilization far downriver on the Xingu. (The reader must not take my word for it but must read MAN HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE. And I suggest of the different mapping systems on line to use MSN Encarta Maps, typing in Posto Simoes Lopes to access the beginning, and panning east from the Posto and Google Maps Satellite imaging-from space photos panning east the same on those from Posto Simoes Lopes. MSN Encarta Maps provide easy to read and accurate latitude and longitude coordinates for the amature. The Dyott search party started out at the Posto Simoes Lopes indian trading post and in two days had moved 20 miles north east crossing latitude 14 00 south of the equator to latitude 13 58 south of the equator longitude 54 30 a few miles away where Bernardino the guide who accompanied both the Fawcett and Dyott party pointed out Dead Horse Camp between a mile and two miles south of where two upper feeder streams of the Batovi river join. From Dead Horse Camp the Dyott search expedition looking for the Fawcett party struck due east 15 miles veering slightly north to latitude 13 56 which is the location of the Salto De Capivaras waterfall. They camped here and it is here as George Dyott writes in the bright moonlight he saw a 40 foot anaconda cautiously lowering itself down one bank of the waterfalls on trees and brush. He further wites his mind was probably exaggerating it was 40 feet and it was actually 20 feet in length. Colonel Percy Fawcett the last civilization heard from him gave in a letter he sent out to his wife that he was at Dead Horse Camp at latitude 11 43 south of the equator. He was never at that latitude but was camped at Dead Horse Camp 160 miles south of latitude 11 43. Later a geographic society as he did not have time to reach latitude 11 43 believed he wrote down an 11 when he meant a 13. But he was not at latitude 13 43 either. George Dyott writes he had studied the Colonel before the expedition and expected this as he never let his true exploration routes be known. The good news is it is only a two day hike from Posto Simoes Lopes to Dead Horse Camp and a four day hike to Salto De Capivaras.) The only thing certain I have accomplished is to prove that the famous Dead Horse Camp where the Fawcett party camped early in their expedition is about 20 miles south of where nearly all belive Dead Horse Camp is located and it is an easy two day hike from Posto Simoes Lopes the Bakari indian post rather than a four day hike, Posto Simoes Lopes still as sparsely populated as it was at the time of Colonel Fawcett. Bring your portable gold dredges as these potholes during the wet season collect any gold from a mother load above. I must put more effort into getting this photo George Dyott took and which appears in his book MAN HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE on line with permission. I have no idea if there is any gold mother load gold bearing quartz veins up stream from river where Dead Horse Camp is located and I am only fooling about back packing in a portable gold dredge. The land is probably the property of someone. As you scroll down a ways I have provided the latitude and longitude of the true Dead Horse Camp of the Fawcett Party (the figure Colonel Fawcett gave of Dead Horse Camp of being Latitude 9 degrees 53 minutes south of the equator, is about 20 miles north of the true Dead Horse Camp. The Autan party went to it and found a natural clearing there. And this natural clearing is not many miles along the same latitude west from an isolated very high hill (or low mountain as some may call it) where exists at it's top an excellent place to study Harpie Eagles nesting. Prior to the 1925 Xingu expedition Colonel Fawcett had been on an expedition which included in part the same general area and which accomodated bird watchers studying among birds the Harpie Eagle. The top of these lone high hills and low mountains seperated from other equally high terrain by dozens of miles were the natural nesting places of Harpie Eagles. The Colonel disguised his camps so persons could not follow him. George Dyott mentions this as he had researched the Colonel. And the fact is the commonly believed Dead Horse Camp location is a previous camp of Colonel Fawcett in an earlier year and he used it in his Xingu expedition 1925 to disguise his location. The next Fawcett expedition whether led by Emmanouil Lalaios or others must first cover the Xvantes tribe along the River Das Mortes for what they know of the Fawcett party, if anything, then move on to the community of 7,000 of Santa Teresinha in the Bananal and from there take farm vehicles moving that way to the confluence of the Suia Missue river to the Suya farming and ranching community located at the confluence of the Suya river (Suia Missue) with the Xingu river to find what the Suya know of the Fawcett party, if anything. From there the expedition must go upriver 60 miles to the Kalapalo camp on the Kuluene river (upper Xingu river) where the Tanguro river enters from the east. And there at the Kalapalo camp there must be serious dialogue over two weeks duration without repetition of the problem faced by the Autan party. The Kalapalo may welcome serious dialogue. But there must be mutual understanding of the basic purpose of the expedition, its objective to find where in the Xingu Colonel Fawcett died of murder or by natural death, and if son Jack Fawcett escaped death leaving the Xingu along with photographer Raleigh Rimell third party in the expedition. Peter Fleming the brother of Ian traveled alone the final miles up the primative Tapirape river to a point about 50 miles distance from where Chief Aloique said the bones of Colonel Percy Fawcett would be found being he had been killed on the river of the Suya which in turn was about 50 miles east of the nature Pique fruit orchard of the Kalapalo which at present time year 2007 the Kalapalo are in court on to regain title to. Peter Fleming did not cross the ridge and make contact with the Suya singing indians to learn anything they might know of the Fawcett party but rather remained on the east side of the ridge returning to the others in his exploration party.The Fawcett party according to Aloique met it's end on the west side of the ridge which would have been a common hunting ground of the Suya, Kalapalo and Xvantes. The Suya and Xvantes also occasionally picked the fruit of the Kalapalo orchard. Chief Aloique told Commander George Dyott commissioned to search for the Fawcett party who wrote it all down in his book MAN HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE that at the Piqui orchard the Fawcett party hung on the trail the "yellow feathers" of a bird they had shot which meant the Fawcett guns might start to bark at anyone entering their camp or following them. The Fawcett Party then proceeded three to four days march east of the Kalapalo camp and Piqui orchard and met their death according to Aloique. Yet more than twenty years later in lengthy ceremony the bones of Colonel Percy Fawcett were dug up in front of Brazil Xingu indian agent Orlando Boas at a lake close to the Kalapalo camp. Ellen B Basso, anthropologist, retired Professor Emerita, University of Arizona, knows the Kalapalo and one of her books about them is titled IN FAVOR OF DECEIT. The Kalapalo treasure deceit and illusion. Access http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/books/bid34.htm . Deceit and illusion is part of their culture. Go to http://www.gorgas.gob.pa/museoafc/loscriminales/biografias/fawcett.html and also consider the thinking of Marshall Candido Rondon the great expert in indian affairs in this 1951 TIME magazine article http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,814702,00.html?iid=chix-sphere . It is however not true that the presents were not good. The fact is the necklace promised was not a present (access Spanish link) but a payment for services but payment not forthcoming and the guide was not hit but a kife he had taken out of the Colonels belt without permission was crudely taken back by the Colonel. It is possible the contract was for the Kalapalo guide Kiburkuiri to continue accompanying the Fawcett party across Suya and Xvantes territory but Kubukuiri did not want to encounter the Suya and Xvantes. The link preceeding the TIME magazine link is in Spanish and is probably the most accurate account of the final moments of life of the Colonel Percy Fawcett exploration party. There is a problem however and that is carefull university anthropological sociological study of the Kalapalo indian tribe of the Xingu region of the Mato Grosso discloses that what they treasure even above bravery and high competency in warfare (they are brave and fierce) is "Deceit". The creation of "Illusion" in deceit is of paramount importance in the Kalapalo tribe. What troubles me is that in his commissioned search for the Colonel Percy Fawcett party Commander George Dyott's indian guide Chief Aloique told that the Fawcett party met it's end on the remote upriver Suia Misseu approximately 40-50 miles east of the Kalapalo camp and approximately 80-90 miles west of the Bananal in very remote mountains on higher river rain forest ground. Going to the very bottom of this page and clicking on the Wikimedial link the photo of Colonel Fawcett's bones resting on an outdoor table on a white table cloth with indian agent Orlando Boas standing near these are unquestionbly the bones of Colonel Percy Fawcett. Dug up by the Kalapalo in front of Orlando Boas near the Kalapalo camp after a lengthy ceremony including speeches these are by the description of Chief Aloique apologetically as to what bones were left to be viewed, this description by Chief Aloique made decades earlier in 1928 to George Dyott and Aloique was going to show them to the Dyott party untill both Chief Aloique and Commander George Dyott saw it wise to make retreats from very primitive non Posto Simoes Lopes Trading Post indians making their way up the Xingu river for trade supplies (knives) in numbers far exceeding the number of knives for trade and gifts. And it goes to say at educated guess all the tribes in the less sophisticated downriver needed steel knives so as to maintain a defensive military balance. Knives did not interest the wealthy Kalapalo much as they could purchase all of the knives they wanted at Posto Simoes Lopes or they could likely purchase good knives at the very remote outpost of Porto Sao Domingos on the Tapirape river the opposite direction to the east which flowed east into the Araguaya river which helps form the Bananal. This exceptionally remote post was even closer to the Kalapalo camp than Posto Simoes Lopes to the west. Peter Fleming the brother of Ian Fleming reached Porto Sao Domingos and then leaving his exploration party to rest there continued on alone up the far upper Tapirape river to within about fifty miles to where Chief Aloqui says the Fawcett party met their death. However Peter Fleming did not cross the ridge but stayed on the east side of the ridge and returned to the exploration party whereas the Fawcett party according to Chief Aloique met their death on the west side of the ridge. Had Peter Fleming crossed the ridge and made contact with the Suya tribe of singing indians he may have well learned of what happened to the Fawcett party. Did Jack and Raleigh Rimmel escape. Did the Suya help them reach civilization via a back route. According to Peter Fleming no one on the Taparape river or the Araguaya river which led to civilization knew anything about the Fawcett party. In my best opinion the Kalapalo had removed the bones of the Colonel from 40-50 miles directly east of the Kalapalo camp on the river Suia Misseu (Suya river) towards the Bananal. I believe they were dug up and carried back west 40-50 miles and buried near the Kalapalo camp. The bones may have been buried and reburied in ceremony more than one time. Chief Aloique was a Nahauqua tribe indian. A close brother tribe to the Kalapalo who can understand each other language and participate together in sacred cerimonies. Aloique's camp was 20 miles west of the Kalapalo camp. To know what he did know Aloque had to have been invited to the cerimonial burial of the bones of Colonel Percy Fawcett. Son Jack Fawcett and photographer Raleigh Rimell both in their twenties probably also had been murdered at the same time as Colonel Fawcett, or a much lesser possibility escaped. If they were killed the Kalapalo did not at some time transport back west 50 miles to the Kalapalo camp the bones of Jack and Raleigh from the Suia Missue river, the Suia Misseu river the only location of the bones Chief Aloique described to George Dyott as written by George Dyott in his famous book MANHUNTING IN THE JUNGLE. And that Jake Fawcett and Raleigh Rimell were not murdered at the same time as the Colonel is doubtfull as had they excaped their most favorable and nearest natural passage to civilization was striking east to the Bananal less than a five day march to a tributary outpost and then down river to civilization. Peter Fleming the brother of Ian in a dangerous journey explored the Bananal route to within a four day march of upper Suia Misseu, traveling the final days alone striking out west in the direction of the Suya and Kalapalo from the last known outpost of civilization. He never learned any word of the Fawcett party.No one had seen them. Jack and Rawleign never returned to Posto Simoes Lopes where the Fawcett party had begun it's eastern direction exploration to the Xingu region from. They could have struck south to the Rio das Mortes through the dangerous Xvantes territory but no one knew anything of that. That left only an exit on the Xingu river going dowriver and George Dyott never learned anything there. It must be assumed therefore it is highly probably all were killed by Kabukuiri, son and nephew, but not on the Xingu and instead 50 miles east on the river Suia Misseu. . George Dyott never heard of the Green Lagoon near the Kalapalo viliage as the resting place of the Colonels bones but rather heard of higher ground to the east as one gets closer to the Bananal as told to him by Chief Aloique. As the Kalapalo culturally value the illusion of deceit above everything we may never know with complete accuracy what actually happened. George Dyott was the master of masters. Chief Aloique was dangerous but by giving Aloique his gun to carry loaded George Dyott accomplished more than the purpose of interesting Aloiqe in his rifle in trade for the Fawcett party bones as after this trust Chief Aloique could not kill George Dyott and expedition. The same is the case with the indian Juruna chief who possessed a rifle and helped the expedition to later reach civilization George Dyott gave bullets to. As he was still planning his 1928 expediton to locate the Fawcett Party three years after they disappeared Commander George Dyott who had already undertaken the most dangerous expedition in the world which was to follow down the path of the Theadore Roosevelt - Candido Rondon expedition on the River Of Doubt traveling from Cuiaba, Mato Grosso state Brazil to put boats in in Rondonia state Brazil on the River of Doubt (the Roosevelt River) to verify the Roosevelt expedition, had a visitor who told him five British men had already left eastward in a Ford vehicle from Guajara-mirim, Brazil in the Amazon across river from Guayaramerin, Bolivia in the Amazon to find the Fawcett party and the expedition was now being taken care of by the indians being the expedition suffered illness. As to the Fawcett Party they were near. Commander George Dyott was making his expedition to find the Fawcett party three years after the Fawcett party set out to the Xingu region of the Mato Grosso. One of the British in the expedition of five could not have been Colonel Fawcett. Scroll down to the very bottom of this page and click on the Wikimedia link and view the Colonels bones on a table with a white cloth with the Brazil Xingu indian agent Orlando Boas standing near. The bones of Jack Fawcett son of the Colonel and Raleigh Rimmel photographer were not found. It is not impossible Colonel Fawcett died of natural causes and Jack Fawcett and Rawley Rimmel made it out of the Xingu to the main trunk of the Amazon river there meeting up with three other British and traveled back up the Amazon river and tributary the Madiera river to Guajara-mirim the terminal of the Madiera-Mamore railway and headed eastward in a Ford vehicle towards the Roosevelt River and the wealthy diamond mines discovered there in 1998-2001, which is additionally producing 200 bodies yearly dug up of eastern Brazilians who have come as miners, most deaths the work of indians. I have been told Colonel Fawcett in earlier years explored this area alone where the diamond mines are located. Following this strike eastward to the diamond mines Jack Fawcett and Rawley Rimell may have settled down to obscure lives on cattle ranches in the Bolivia Beni which Colonel Fawcett, then Major Fawcett before WW 1, frequented so much when he worked for the Bolivia government as a surveyor, never returning home. Or had been killed by indians in Rondonia state at the diamond mines north west of where the Roosevelt river is now located in Rondonia state and near the primative north western Mato Grosso (which will be primitive not much longer as that area is where Satellite imaging shows beginnings of scattered land clearing fires as Brazil grows. Possibly faster than any nation on earth.). It is probably an idea similar to the dream George Dyott had later in the far western amazon region of being on a river and a raft floating down with dead men aboard. In any case Commander George Dyott did not place too much value on this expedition of the five British looking for the Fawcett party between the Fawcett expedition to the Mato Grosso Xingu region in 1925 and approaching the Dyott expedition to find the Fawcett party in 1928. And he was the Commander of the expedition. I mention it only as the bodies of Jack Fawcett and Raleigh Rimmel were not found buried with Colonel Fawcett yet the Kalapalo tribe had nothing against them)...............(as told to Orlando Boas Brazil Indian Agent by the Kalapalo indians in the Mato Grosso Xingu region it was Kabukuiri the Colonel's Kalapalo indian guide along with Kabukuiri's son and nephew who killed the Fawcett party in the Green Lagoon in the Xingu where they were camped near the Kalapalo camp. This began when the Colonel shot a duck and son Jack ran to recover it and bring it forward. The Colonel had a knife in a holder he wore on his belt he used to dress ducks that Kabukuiri admired much and Kabukuiri reached and took the knife out of the Colonel's holder and the Colonel snatched it back which Kabukuiry took offense at. And also Kabukuiri had not been given a necklace (money in Kalapalo culture) he was promised as the Colonel was running low on trading supplies. The Fawcetts were packing up camp and leaving to strike east when Kabukuiri, son and nephew ambushed them clubbing them to death. Kabukuiri had been angrily spreading it around the Kalapalo camp he was going to kill the Fawcetts but as such words were common but lead to nothing the tribe ignored it. When they found the Colonel dead the tribe buried him. George Dyott did not make the same mistake but let his guide, an indian chief of a close brother tribe of the Kalapalo, carry his rifle for him loaded several hours, although it did cause a degree of aprehension. With the Kalapalo and close brother tribes who participated in Kalapalo cerimonies trust meant a great deal and lack of trust conjuncted with lack of payment could result in death as seen in the Fawcett party murder but Kabukuiri seemed to be particularly not level headed. In the end, before he could find the Colonel's bones, George Dyott on the Xingu ran into the same crunch as Colonel Fawcett with hundreds of down river indians converging upriver for precious knives of which the Dyott party had in limited supply. The Kalapalo were trading post indians and their value on kives was simply to offer George Dyott some canoes to go fetch the knives secured downriver with a part of his expedition party on his own to bring them back and see about trading, while they took life easy. A purchase of the Commander's wife in New York City of common department store jewelry for her husband to use for trading with the indians interested the Kalapalo as these could not purchased at Posto Simoes Lopes although they were of common quality by New York City standards. Thus in trade the Kalapalo took the Colonel down river to where another part of the Dyott party were stashing the knives. With the hundreds of indians even farther down river who did not have common trading post access to kives converging up river Commander Geoge Dyott's guide who was a chief saw the writing on the wall and slipped away upriver one night to return to his people and the easy and safe life and George Dyott saw the writing on the wall also and slipped away down river on a long journey to civilization. George Dyott had believed he would gain access to the Fawcett party bones through a rifle trade but it was not meant to be and he feared the expedition would never make it back to the Kalapalo village upriver, the Kalapalo who though the same and pulled up stakes to return home during the night. The words of Commander George Dyott are written down in his famous book but the Portuguese of Orlando Boas has to be recovered in the Brazil archives for verification in comparison to the Spanish and English versions. And there it ends for right now) ...........................(on the Guajara-mirim photo viewed I took in the late summer of 1994 that is the community of Guajara-mirim, Brazil to the left and community of Guaharamerin, Bolivia to the right. Guajara-mirim is in the state of Rondonia Brazil and Guaharamerin in the state of Beni, Bolivia. In this general area which comprises the Brazil state of Rondonia and parts of the Bolivia states of Beni and Pando the largest Anaconda snakes are found. Colonel Fawcet may have killed the largest unofficial on record in the Pando in the north western part of this area at a place called Rio Negro along the Bolivia Abuna river. To the east of Guajara-mirim in Rondonia state the President Theodore Roosevelt party along with the Brazilian party of Colonel Candido Rondon (later Marshall Candido Rondon ) put in their boats on the River of Doubt so named because in coming across it earlier surveying a telegraph line route west towards Bolivia and north downColonel Rondon did not have time to explore it given his orders but questioned where it went to as there was no geographical information available to make an educated guess. Three months after putting in on the river the exploration came to civilization towards the main trunk of the Amazon river. It is now called the Roosevelt River. Today an improved highway bridge spans the Roosevelt River in Rondonia state of Brazil from Guajara-mirim eastward to the city of Cuiaba in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil. Not far north of the Roosevelt river bridge in Rondonia state the world richest diamond mines were discovered 1998-2001 in tribal lands of native Rondonia state indians who believed untill nine years ago the diamonds were no different than quartz crystals. Now year 2007 there is a preoccupation with digging up annually two hundred Brazilian Portuguese diamond miners moved into the area from eastern Brazil. For more than two hundred years and perhaps four hundred years it had been suspected there were diamonds in that remote area of Rondonia state not far from the remote north western Mato Grosso but it was six to nine years ago their mother load source was discovered. The search for diamonds has now extended to farther north in the Rondonia jungle wilderness and east to the remote north western Mato Grosso. The area of Rondonia you are looking at in the photo in western Rondonia state in contrast to eastern Rondonia state has been for four hundred years the main South America continent western inland route traveling Argentina to Columbia and Panama but only settled to the eastward and to the westward to the Andes mountains since the past century. Except for the route itself northward from Argentina to Columbia and panama all to both sides east and west for hundreds of years remained primative rain forest and savannas.) Use this e-mail JamesLawtonAtEarthLink@nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com to contact me on this page. The Brazil Archives which are in Portuguese must now be gone into on this question of the Fawcett party by somebody who reads Portuguese and the Kalapalo area visited to define precisely the green lagoon where the Fawcett party met it's end. The Colonel, his son Jack and photographer Raleigh Rimmel are dead. They were ambushed with clubs by their Kalapalo guide and the son and nephew of the guide. It was over insult and money. The three Kalapalo had threatened they would do so with word of mouth about the Kalapalo camp but othere Kalapalo paid little attention to them thinking it simply words. The question presently reiterating is to define the particular green lagoon they were killed at while preparing to strike east. For a marker if one is not already in place. The bones of Colonel Fawcett can be seen by scrolling down and accessing the Wikimedia link at the far very bottom of this page. They are on a table covered by a white cloth and indian agent Orlando Boas stands over them. In terms of what bones are there and what bones are not there they are exactly as the guide of Commander George Dyott, chief Aloique, described them apologetically to be many years earlier in terms of what remained. In some respects given what Aloqui told these bones may actually have been found 50 miles to the east on the River Suia Missieu (Suya tribe river) and brought back by the Kalapalo for burial. However the Kalapalo assured Brazil indian agent Orlando Boas that the Fawcett party was murdered on spot at this Green Lagoon by a Kalapalo Kabukuiri who had expressed anger at the Colonel in words for cheating and insult but whose words they thought amounted to no more than angry words that would pass. The world is changing and whether it is for the worse or not no one knows. The Bolivian amazon indians NASA in the mid 1990's made a deal with of five hundred 22 cal rounds and a few dollars near Riberalta the sister city of Guayaramerin, for access to study a large meteor strike on their land wanted a few years later when NASA returned to the site renegotiation which included a permanent office rented for them in Riberalta by NASA and a number of outrigger canoes with outboard motors http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id12.html A FIRE ON THE AMAZON. I was in the Ecuadorian petrol amazon four months ago in old Jivaro-shaur territory and there was not a shrunken head for sale in the stores of the capitol of the petrol amazon Lago Agrio. In fact shrunken heads are illegal in the Ecuador petrol amazon. Many Shaur and Jivaro are now college professors. I am looking at the photo (see page Title) with "Man Hunting In The Jungle" by George Dyott, First Edition having it on the desk in front of me. The photo appears page 107 and I am reading George Dyott's description. This is where Bernardino the Bakairi indian guide who accompanied the Fawcett party expedition in 1925 and also accompanied the Dyott expedition of 1928 searching for the Fawcett party pointed out to Commander George Dyott in 1928 the "Dead Horse Camp" where they had stayed, located on a far upper branch of the Batovi river in May 1925 It is an important photo and the writer will see if he can get permission to put it on line. It was the camp where Colonel Fawcett on an expedition prior to 1925 told Bernardino he had lost a horse with a broken leg. It was here that a precious Dyott party oxen stepped into a pot hole but escaped injury. Had commander Dyott followed the vogue believed to be Dead Horse Camp location to the north twenty miles he would have followed the Batovi river to Ronuro where it empties into the Xingu river seventy miles north of the actual Fawcett party destination and the Dyott party exploration would have been a failure. However George Dyott writes he through study was looking for such error as for one reason he knew the Colonel deceptively covered his expedition strike routes. This is the real Dead Horse Camp the Dyott party photographed and it is more than twenty miles south of and to the east of the false believed for eighty years location (which includes the false still today believed location) of Dead Horse Camp, the today vogue believed location which is the false location being the natural clearing in the middle of the jungle as described by the Autan expedition of 1996 which viewed the clearing at precisely Latitude 13 degrees 43' south of the equator Longitude 54 degrees 35' . The Autan expedition made the same mistake as all other expeditions exception being the Dyott expedition. This camp clearing as described by the Autan expediton was also likely a Fawcett camp but one to accomodate bird life study people he had with him on an expedition prior to 1925 as just to the direct due east of the Autan pointed out Dead Horse Camp exists a very isolated high hill with top of minimal diameter where eagles would nest atop and also easily defended by ancient peoples if an outpost of the lost city was situated there. (I go into this farther down the page). The very high hill top of minimal diameter had an overlook twenty miles in all directions of lower land meaning the rare Mato Grosso Harpy eagle would be nesting there. This eagle is one of the world's largest eagles and kills small adult deer with its swift drop descent enhanced by a powerfull kick of its talons, which it eats in place, and can lift young deer into its nest. George Dyott notes a magnificent Harpy eagle the Kalapalo were keeping apparantly in the process of taming it to stay in the villiage. Colonel Fawcett in an earlier expedition he was leading prior to 1925 which included bird study people would never have missed this spot for anything. The real Dead Horse Camp - and which the Dyott party took a photo of - is actually only two days short ordinary hike from Posto Simoes Lopes (Bakairi Military Indian Trading Post) and today likely over some cattle ranch land. The still believed today Dead Horse Camp pointed out by the Autan expedition is a more northerly four day hike and today one is likely to find there cabbage fields to help feed the now large city of Cuiaba to the south. It was in late May 1925 the Fawcett party reached Dead Horse Camp. By mid summer all of the party were dead on the Kuluene (upper Xingu) river in a personal non tribal vindetta over insult and money with Fawcett Kalapalo party guide Kabukuiri, son Kururi and son in law Kaloene, clubbed to death in an ambush. (The Geographical Journal, May 1910 No5 Vol xxxv - Then Major Percy H Fawcett, Bolivia border surveyor, writes of his assignment 1908 in the north eastern Amazonas Bolivia state of Pando on the Brazil border. Crossing the Bolivia Pando state overland to the Bolivia Pondo Abuna river just south of the Brazil border he writes he considers it the most diseased river in the Amazonas, where life expectancy was not of normal length. Also noting along it lived warlike indians and as well it was a retreat for bandits on the hide. The Abuna river in Bolivia territory empties into the Mamore river shown in the photo below nearing fifty five miles downriver north west of the Brazil-Bolivia Guajara-mirim - Guayaramerin twin sister frontier communities. The Abuna's flow eastward confluence with the Mamore river being in Bolivia a few miles south of the Brazil frontier where the name changes somewheres thereabouts from the Mamore River to Madeira river although on some maps the Guapore river and Mamore river are also the Madeira river. It was on the Bolivia Abuna river Major Fawcett notes in his "The Geographical Journal" presentation of May 1910 his survey party came across a colossal Anaconda coiled partly around a tree along the Abuna river bank being partly immersed in the river water. He shot the snake and measured it at approximately 45 feet out of water and estimated seventeen feet remaining in the water. In 1910 in The Geographical Journal he notes his disappointment that his measurements of the snake were being questioned. He notes the Bolivia-Brazil border survey headquarters located south in the Pantanal in Corumba, Brazil had recorded an Anaconda of 85 feet length killed near there. As it was an approximation it is more likely it is thought the snake then Major Fawcett (after WW1 Lt. Col Fawcett) encountered was a record Anaconda but probably more on the order of 42 or 43 feet in length and weighing 600-800 pounds. The survery expedition did not skin the snake but went on with their survey assignment without the burden of the skin. Undoubtably they ate part of the snake as that kind of a gift of food is difficult to come by in the jungle. The snake was a "Green Anaconda" found as far south as the Pantanal which lies south of the Brazil-Bolivia Guapore river. The smaller "Yellow Anaconda" is also found in the Pantanal. Along a stream flowing into the Guapore river, which in turn flows into the Mamore river some fifty miles south east of the Guajaramerins in the photo shown below, a Green Anaconda said to be over 100 feet in length had been reported on the Guapore. The Brazilian army shot it and it was a big snake but probably the size had grown over time. However some serious weight is given that Percy Harrison Fawcett shot and reported the largest Anaconda on record. The Green Anaconda which shares the Pantanal south of the Guapore river the Lost World and Mato Grosso City and grows very big because of the plethora of food in the Pantanal (and it's smaller Yellow Anaconda cousin grows very big also in the Pantanal sometimes reaching 20 feet in length) may have reached a length of 42 feet in the Pantanal with its copious food supply and as Anaconda skins can be stretched to approximately double their actual length and the one the Border Commission of Corumba, Brazil located in the Pantanal reported 85 feet length may have been stretched to double it's actual length. However, the Anaconda Colonel Fawcett reports less than a degree of latitude north of Guayaramerin and it's sister community Riberalta on the Abuna river he estimates at over 60 feet "unskinned". However the many indian machetes of indians traveling with the Fawcett survey party likely went to work within minutes on the part of the Anaconda wrapped around the river bank tree with a feast that day and copious chunks of anaconda meat carried to supply meals the days following letting the part of the snake immersed in the water float downstream It may however have been a snake over 42 feet length, the assumed actual size of the snake killed in the Pantanal. This giant Anaconda killed by Percy Fawcett on the Abuna river may have been killed by him about one half a degree of latitude directly north of Riberalta the sister community of Guayaramerin at a place on the Abuna river called "Rio Negro" which some people mix up with the Great Rio Negro river on the north side of the Amazon flowing out of the nation of Columbia. Perhaps because the largest Anaconda on official record ever killed of 37 feet length was killed in Columbia. However Colonel Fawcett made it clear the snake was killed on the Abuna river of Bolivia while he was about his Bolivia-Brazil border survey work, the Amazons most diseased river as he believed it was. Ironically the Abuna empties across the Mamore-Madeira river from the commonly named Ferrocarril Diablo (Devils Rail Road) which holds the record for killing more people per rail mile of rail laid than any rail road in existance in the world of malaria and other diseases. The rail road ran from Puerto Velho Brazil to Guajara-mirim, Brazil - Guayaramerin, Bolivia along the Mamore river for more than one hundred miles to circumvent a bad stretch of river where valuable cargo, mainly rubber, could not be transported economically part of the year. To reach the rail road one traveled by boat 1,300 roadless miles from the Atlantic Ocean up the Amazon river and Madeira to it's northern most terminal Puerto Velho to board the train then at it's termination debording at the Brazil-Bolivia twin Guajaramirim communities continuing by boat south up the Mamore river then Guapore river to Mato Grosso City and overland to Corumba, Brazil and the Pantanal then down the Paraguay river then on the Parana river to reach Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. The rail road was also the most expensive of it's time per rail mile laid. On the first contact made by Commander George Dyott on the whereabouts of the Fawcett party here is where this contact individual said, George Dyott writes as told to him by the contact, a search party of five Englishmen taking the rail road up from Puerto Velho had gotten off at Guajara-mirim got into a Ford car and headed east to the Guapore River where they had become sick with Beri Beri and now were living with Indians. At the confluence of the Guapore (rio Iguapore as the contact called it) with the Mamore not far away would be found the Colonel Fawcett party captured by Indians. No supplies would be needed as after reaching the Guapore one was so close none would be needed. Colonel Percy Fawcett in his fatal exploration in 1925 covered his trail well. When they came looking for him in 1928 (the Colonel thought if he found something of interest he might settle down with the indians for two years to study it George Dyott relates) upon arriving at the Posto Simoes Lopes indian trading post Commander George Dyott had no idea where the Fawcett party was but had to assume they had followed the original formally approved plan of 1924 striking north west up the Paranatinga river and below the community of Alta Floresta at latitude11 south of the equator strike east along that latitude to the villiage of the Xingu river branch of the Suya indians. Then convince the Suya to take them across or permit them to cross alone 100 miles to the upper Tapirapi river (where Peter Fawcett brother of Ian left off on his search for the Fawcett party in 1932 coming from the opposite direction) and then strike downriver on the Tapiripi river to the Great Araguaya river and the Bananal. This 100 miles stretch of Xingu land crossing from the Xingu river at Latitude 11 to the upper Tapirapi river was unmapped and the Suya were said to be fierce and not trustable. Yet along none of the route the Dyott party took would there have been one word about the Fawcett party as it was not the route of the Fawcett party. George Dyott would even have had to question whether correct his first contact on the Fawcett disappearance, a man who said the Fawcett party were some 70-80 miles south east of the Guajaramirims near the Guapore river. George Dyott was told already five Englishmen had traveled up the Amazon river and at Puerto Velho taken the rail road along the Mamore river to the Guajaramirims and gotten off and taken a ford car east. They had all come down with Beri Beri and were living with the indians. A negro with them had died. The Fawcett party was o.k. but Indians who had captured them would not let them leave the villiage. Once they had reached the Guapore river they would need not supplies as the Fawcett party would be in that area - which is only 60 or 70 miles south east of the Guajaramirims, the southerly termination point of the old rail road. It could even be true today as that is in the state of Rondonia Brazil across the Guapore river from Bolivia and there are uncontacted indians living there today. George Dyott would have suspected instead of striking east on the Paranatinga the Fawcett party struck west. George Dyott and party would have eventually reached the city of Belem on the Amazon near its confluence with the Atlantic and taken a steamer ship home totally unsuccessful in finding or learning what happened to the Fawcett party. Instead at Posto Simoes Lopes trading post by a great stroke of luck he was able to locate Bernardino the Bakairi indian guide who had guided the Fawcett party in 1925 and to employ Bernardino and be shown the real exploration route the Colonel had taken which reached the Kuluene at the Kalapalo indian village some 80 miles south of latitude 11 south of the equator. George Dyott alread knew before he began to search the Colonel in the amount of time he writes he was on trail could have never reached the northerly latitude south of the equator he gives in a letter home but George Dyott also mentions he knew it was Colonel Fawcett's habit to disguise his exploration routes. And the latitude the Colonel gave on paper fit in reasonably well with the original exploration plan approved 1924. The bones of Colonel Percy Fawcett were dug up in 1951 by the Kalapalo indians near their villiage on the Kuluene river in the Mato Grosso with Brazil indian agent Orlando Villas Boas as witness to the disinterrment. To view the bones go to the very bottom of this page and immediately and directly above the ancient 1,000 B.C. Hebrew-Phoenician maps of South America you will see there and click on the Wikimedia link. The bones are resting on a white table cloth on a table with Orlands Boas in this early 1950's photo looking on. As to what bones are there in year 1951 and what bones are missing chief Aloique in 1928 described them aloique to Commander George Dyott in 1928. The indian word "I-ti" in the central and eastern Mato Grosso means "the Sun" which rises in the east. I-ti also means "river of the sun" or "river from the sun". Commander George Dyott listened to the wife of a low level Brazil government employee assigned to help him Joao at their home go into a trance and shake and them come out of it and relax telling Commander Dyott the river where the Fawcetts were being held captive was callled the "rio I-ti" meaning the "river from the sun" or "river of the sun" to reiterate. She related where the Fawcett party were held captive was dowriver from where the Kalapalo villiage is located a long distance. Their location being left to be the Kayapo indian villages a considerable distance downriver from the Kalapalo villiage or the Suya singing indians the Suya men wearing the lip plate like the Kayapo but situated farther upriver than the Kayapo about sixty miles downriver from the Kalapalo village, the Suya or Suia living on the river Suia Missu. To people on the Mato Grosso Paranatinga river the river the word I-ti may mean the large Xingu river to the east 150 miles distance in the rise of the sun. To chief Aloique whose village was in the Xingu on the Coliseu river, sister to the Kuluene river (upper Xingu river), the word I-ti may have also meant the Kuluene river 20 miles to the east of Aloiqu's village, the upper Xingu (Kuluene) flowing south to north towards the equator. The principle river flowing westward in the upper to mid Xingu from the east the direction of the rising sun is the rio Suia Missu and chief Aloique told George Dyott the Fawcett party was killed at the I-ti five days march east of the Kuluene (upper Xingu) river which would have put the Fawcett party at the time they met their deaths on the banks of the upper Suia Missu river which flows into the Xingu (Kuluene) river below Ronruro from the direction of the rising sun. And that after a one day march on a five day march Aloique told Commander Dyott the Fawcett party hung up on trail towards the rio Suia Missu the yellow-black feathers which in the Amazon is the universal message one will die if they cross. In the end George Dyot accepted the debated opinion that chief Aoique meant the I-ti to be the Kuluene river (upper Xingu river) on which his brother Caribe Kalapalo village was situated one day plus a few hours walk eastward from his village. The upper rio Suia Missu at the end of the five day march east from the Kuluene river was the hunting lands of the fierce Xvantes and Suya indians, the Seminole indians of the South America Mato Grosso, not known until between 1950-1960. The rio Suia Missu lies between the upper Xingu (Kuluene) river to the west and the Tapirapi river and Araguaya river and Bananal to the south east and east. It is likely the I-ti river is the Kuluene river and Aloique was relating to Commander George Dyott in terms of the name the people over in Cuyaba and Posto Simoes Lopes knew the Xingu river (Kuluene river) by and that was the name I-ti. (The writer is a humble LMSW of New York State, a captain in equivalency comparison to military rank, common. Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett was a Lt. Colonel and a hunting companion of Colonel Candido Rondon who was to become the highest ranking man in Brazil next to the President of that nation. And who accompanied Teddy Roosevelt in exploration down the River Of Doubt through Rondonia, Mato Grosso and Amazonas. Yet with the greatest of total due respect the Fawcett party was moving along the edge in his exploration of 1925 in the Mato Grosso. It started well with the Colonel playing banjo and Jack the picolo and having a good time in a Mihinaku indian hut at Posto Simoes Lopes north of Cuyaba. I do not know if the Kalapalo at the trading post looked in on it. But then ten days later on his trek to the Xingu he took as George Dyott presents in his book, first edition, MAN HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE, without asking, two canoes of indians who as likely as not had gone overland to the trading post giving them a 70 mile walk when they returned and when they did return they were indignant. It would work out o.k. no more than indignant but what if they were bringing a pregnant sick wife to the Post. And walking towards the edge he may have held back from presenting his Kalapalo guide in the Xingu a promised necklace as payment (beads were indian money and used for such) for services rendered with intent to keep the value he had on him for more capable indians to make the trek through the lands of the fierce Xvantes and Suya to the Tapirapi river and beyond the Tapirapi the river Araguaya and the Bananal. It must be all considered. He was simply human.) The above photos show what Colonel Percy Fawcett was looking for and show that he was thinking like everybody that similar ancient cities were also to be found in the lowland rain forest. These ancient B.C. walls will not crumble. Moulded double T copper clamps (the area is wealthy in copper) put in place by the ancient people who built the structure hold critical areas together. From the view of the stele which shows the color composition of early ancient inhabitants of Bolivia appear three pyramids in the background. They are not possible to define as pyramids. They have become hills over three thousand years. They are perfectly blended in. And the same if they exist in the Amazon basin will be the case even more so. They are today hills. Erosion and cattles hooves will wear them down some so they can be seen as what they were originally. I have completed my page on the Fawcett party expedition. I will not add anything without researching the Brazil Government Archives dating back to the year 1925 and that will be by someone competent in the language of Portugal. Which is not me. I have not had even one hour of lesson in it. Which is not true of Spanish which I have had hundreds of hours of instruction in, but is still lacking. The earliest information George Dyott gained on the Fawcett party disappearance was in Corumba, Brazil 1928 from his friend the bandit leader captain Miranda who had spent time 1925 in a Cuiaba (Cuyaba) Mato Grosso jail. Captain Miranda had heard the Fawcett party was killed by bandits for sake of profiting from the Fawcett party valuables. (This was the first information gained from Brazil and meeting with officials in Rio de Jainero produced no information of value that George Dyott relates. The first information however was gained in his NYC hotel room waiting for his ship to depart for Rio de Jainero by a man who was a mystic but who George Dyott thought might have something real and be concealing it as a mystic vision that man telling George Dyott the Fawcett party was near the Bolivia border in the state of Rondonia held captive by indians. And that a group of five Englishmen had already come searching for the Fawcett party using the central Amazon river route coming up the rail road from Puerto Velho along the Mamore river to the Guajaramirims then getting in a ford truck and heading east. All five however had contacted beri beri and were living with the indians. A negro with them had died. To find the Fawcett party no supplies would be needed once the Guapore river had been reached (the Guapore river 50 miles to the east enters the Mamore river after flowing south from the Mato Grosso and creating the frontier Amazon basin border between the nation of Bolivia and the Brazil states of Mato Grosso and Rondonia). (And the wife of one of George Dyott's camaradas went into a trance describing the Fawcett party as well but captured with Jack the son of Colonel Fawcett being forced to marry the daughter of a chief and they were not in the upper Xingu river region where it was supposed they would be but were down river - in what would be the Kayapo (not Kalapalo) area of the Xingu - the Kalapalo are written about as those who have lived with them as the masters of deceptive illusion which is a cherished and honored tradition with the Kalapalo and this probably is a Kalapalo story brought to Posto Simoes Lopes indian trading post and passed down to Cuyaba where this camarada was hired. Jack the son of Colonel Fawcett was a handsome young man in his early 20's over six feet tall and looking something like John F Kennedy as well as his other ancestors. There is a photo of Jack in George Dyott's book MAN HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE. It might be vogue thinking if a chief gave the order to kill the Fawcett party and had unmarried daughters the order would not have included Jack. A number of Kalapalo mothers insisted George Dyott marry their daughters following his arrival at the Kalapalo camp). I have a first edition copy of Man Hunting In The Jungle by George Dyott in front of me writing this. Colonel Fawcett's outfitting stop shortly after leaving Corumba in 1925 was Cuyaba, Brazil and then on north to the Posto Simoes Lopes indian trading port where he met Xingu indians. One indian he noted speaking to was a Kalapalo. What the Kalapalo village on the upper Xingu reported in 1951 twenty six years after the deaths of the Fawcett party in the upper Xingu may be inaccurate to one degree or another. Only God knows. He has us continue to search for the truth to bring to light many or the earlier truths of mankind and present truths, to stabilize mankind through improved knowlege. As is stated in the Old Testament what man gives to God are as filthy rags. Jesus is our salvation. The writer is an amatuer historical archaeologist like Colonel Percy Fawcett and a good one although not an explorer as Colonel Percy Fawcett was. Exploring is expensive. The witer would like to be an explorer trecking 200 km through pristine rain forest north east to south east of the community of Guajara-mirim Brazil in the Brazil state of Rondonia you view on the left in the photo I