P Fawcett Into LOST WORLD Before AC Doyle Aware - Villa Bella Santisima Trinidad Africa City Facing

Access http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id111.html for the to be Colonel Percy Fawcett museum in Bolivia. Most people are not aware explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett was for many years a retired major before WW1 working for Bolivia as a border surveyor. And Bolivia is where he got his experience as an explorer. Then WW1 came along and he returned to England and was promoted to Lt Colonel,. that there exists today and for a long time past a community of pure African dance totally composed of liberated or escaped black Brazilian African slaves that is remote. The name of the community is Villa Bella Santisima Trinidad. It is in the south western Brazil Mato Grosso plateau and borders on the south eastern Bolivia frontier in the Bolivia amazon state of Santa Cruz. There is no other place to see the purist of authentic old African native dance in the Americas. Chances are you will not be able to make it there. It is only a few days by local slow stage from Santa Cruz Bolivia in the amazon (it took me 44 hours to go from Santa Cruz 300 miles to the Guajaramerins) but to Villa Bella Santisima Trinidad begin a week in advance by local stage so as not to miss the dances. I have never been there. Do not expect low Bolivia prices. No matter how remote Brazil does not have low Bolivia prices. Not many people have made it there. Probably the most comfortable travel is to take the train from Santa Cruz to the Paraguay River to Corumba, Brazil in the Pantanal and then head north and departing waterway take the most comfortable stages you can up and over the west Mato Grosso plateau divide where the waters flow down south to the Pantanal and north to the Amazon past Villa Bella Santisima Trinidad into the Guapore River (the upper Madeira river) where the city is located on the south banks of. To fly in by light aircraft would be much easier. When a retired British major working as a surveyor for Bolivia Percy Fawcett was given the assignment to survey and explore for assets what was to become THE LOST WORLD his friend Arthur Conan Doyle authored a fictionalized book of. What was not fictionalized was that it was a remote dry island plateau with rivers and streams falling 1,000 feet over all sides to the rain forest below and the area of the raised plateau island was 2,300 square miles. There were people up there. The Fawcett party saw their footprints and fires at night. They never met them. They made them very nervous. The assignment was completed successfully. Twenty miles east of the Bolivia Lost World is the community of Villa Bella Santisima Trinidad Brazil. It virtually sets on an extensive gold ore deposit. But its richest veins were mined out in the fifteen hundreds. The Colonel Fawcett Party did not directly enter the city as there were rumors of a plague there. He stayed outside. Two hundred years past it was called Mato Grosso City the capitol of the Mato Grosso. Until no more gold could be found worth mining. On now to the eastern Mato Grosso and year 1925 and the final Fawcett exploration for the lost city El Dorado .............. 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 took year 2004 in a crossback one day from the Brazil side to the Bolivia side twin sister community of Guaharamerin. From this starting point the writer would like to explore to the east in Rondonia state in pristine jungle looking for diamonds and ancient archaeological ruins. On the other hand there is that question of the group of 41 diamond miners in that outback Rondonia jungle who were ambushed and killed three years ago. As Rondonia is basically pristine many diamond loads probably remain to be found. Such things happen in Amazonas. Who killed the diamond miners were the Cintas Largas indians who have vast amounts of land by reason the miners violated their financial contract with them. The miners had paid $5000.00 per man to dig the diamonds on Cintas Largas land but apparantly had jumped to new diamond loads they had found on other Cintas Largas land not contracted on. Although the miners were removed from Cintas Largas land by Brazilian officials they returned several times in violation of their eviction to the Cintas Largas diamond loads. There is also a belief that a majority of the mined diamonds were sold under the table ending up in Belgium, the Cintas Largas not getting the percentage agreed to on them. The matter remains under investigation. The Rondonia rio Apedia (Juruena) runs north about 30 miles west of the Cintas Largas indian tribal lands on the Roosevelt river in which rich deposits of diamonds were found less than 10 years ago. Sometimes the Apedia (upriver Juruena) river is called the Roosevelt river but the Apedia river banks are not dug up and no diamond loads have been found yet. The Roosevelt river banks for miles are now dug up 50 yards on each side for many miles causing some concern. However the Cintas Largas indian's concern was lost revenues. The true Roosevelt river begins about 30-40 miles to the east of the Apedia river the Roosevelt river also flowing north like the rio Apedia out of the southern most Serra Dos Parecis highlands of Rondonia which constitute part of what is often called the western Mato Grosso plateau although all of the plateau is not located in the Mato Grosso state. The rio Guapore whose confluence is fifty miles upriver to the east of the Mamore river in the photo you see begins also in the Serra Dos Parecis highlands located in the actual far south west Mato Grosso state. The Guapore is an important Amazonian river and has been nearly since the beginning of the nation of Brazil. The writer had to go to a lengthy web article on a fishing expedition on the Roosevelt river to find out which river beginning in the far south of Rondonia state of Brazil was the true Roosevelt river. However he did find it. Brazil highway BR 364 runs across Across Rondonia here to the east to Cuyaba the capital of the Mato Grosso and it is Rondonias only paved highway and in fact one of it's few roads. Along BR 364 the land has recently been carved out to farms and ranchland in what had been primative land. The sole paved highway of Rondonia state happens to pass by the Cinta Largas indian reservation and over the Roosevelt river so it produced white settlers who knew in 1999 what a rough diamond was. The Cinta Largas indians had previously taken visual note of the stones having no idea they had any value. As most of this vast state of Rondonia area is primative and has not been accessable by highway and thus not visited by whites with indians not cognizant of diamonds untill now and their value it is probable many more diamond loads will be discovered in Rondonia. It remains to be seen. To the east of the Rondonia state upper Roosevelt river satellite imaging shows the Mato Grosso land to the east as being rapidly lumbered first and then burned to create ranches and farms. And some of those fires can be seen to the west to be in the upper Rondonia Roosevelt river valley and hills surrounding and farther along downriver in the Roosevelt river valley after it enters the far north western Mato Grosso state in its flow north to the Madeira river. When Theodor Roosevelt explored the length of the river the river was an unknown. Candido Rondon in a survey had noted the upper Rooosevelt river which he named the River of Doubt as he knew nothing about it or it's passage and a survey of it was not his agenda objective. The Roosevelt expedition as it proceeded downriver on the River of Doubt was watched fow a long ways at a distance by the many in numbers Cintas Largas indians who could have decimated the expedition. But they killed no one in the expedition. The upper navigable Roosevelt river is some 80-90 miles north east of the Bolivia Lost World which Colonel Percy Fawcett first explored..In the years immediately following his term in office the Roosevelt River (River Of Doubt) was an unknown and unexplored river to reiterate untill President Roosevelt and party which included his son Kermit and Colonel Candido Rondon explored it's entire length to it's confluence with the Madeira river. Colonel Candido Rondon, later General and Marshall Rondon, at different times was also a hunting companion of Colonel Percy Fawcett. The river in the photo is the rio Mamore about 50 miles dowriver from it's confluence with the rio Guapore which flows out of the Serra Dos Parecis highlands of the south western Mato Grosso state with the Bolivia Lost World located immediated and directly west across the rio Guapore river which forms the border frontier of Bolivia with the Brazil states of Mato Grosso and Rondonia. The 2,000 square mile on top of raised plateau island of the lost world is a westerly end extension of the Serra Dos Paresis highlands called the Mato Grosso plateau. No diamond loads have been discovered in the Serra Dos Parecis highlands of south Rondonia (formerly the state of Guapore) and far south western Mato Grosso which includes includes also immediately to the west the Bolivia Lost World. Although early in the history of Brazil a large gold discovery was made near Mato Grosso City (city of the former black slaves) in the Parecis highlands immediately to the east of the Lost World, that strike being in Mato Grosso state. That strike was mined out with some former negro slaves to continue the community of Mato Grosso city once the capital of the Mato Grosso. Bolivia requires a guide for those entering the Lost World on the opposite side of the Guapore river from Mato Grosso city as it remains uninhabited, both the 2,000 square mile brushy grassland flat island top of the plateau and the 5,000 square miles of forest surrounding it. It is now Noel Kempf National Park Waters of the Parecis highlands flow on the south side of the Parecis to help form the Paraguay river and Pantanal and the waters that flow from the north side of the Parecis highlands northerly the writer has already mentioned being the Roosevelt river, the Apedia (Juruena) and the Guapore river. Always each year a few Anacondas weighing 400 pounds or more are spotted on the rio Mamore seen in the photo. On the Bolivia side of the Mamore are natural savannas and cattle and in contrast to Rondonia it is well settled and peopled. It should be noted the route form Sao Paulo, Montevedeo and Buenos Aires up the Parana river, to the Paraguay river and up it across Mato Grosso city to the Guapore river and down to the Mamaore river (you see in the photo) and hence down to the Madeira river and then to the main trunk of the Amazon downriver from Manaus is oldest of western Brazil routes and there is no question ancient Phonecians traveled this route as because of the limitations of standing technology all factors considered it was the most trade profitable in terms of revenues (see the ancient Hebrew-Phoenician maps dating back to 1,000 B.C. and earlier of South America at the very bottom of this page). The Fawcett party case will never be proven beyond reasonable doubt. There was the story told to Commander of the expedition searching for the Fawcett party George Dyott by Chief Aloique that the Fawcett party met it's end in the upper Suia Missu river joint hunting grounds of the Suya, Kalapalo and Xvantes a five day march east from the Kalapalo villiage on the Kuluene (upper Xingu) river by Suya indians pretending to be friends. Aloique even knew the time of day the killing of the Fawcett party took place which was 3:00 P.M. Also Aloique told Commander George Dyott that on the first day of the five day march the Fawcett party hung up on trail the yellow-black feathers which is a universal Amazon indian warning that those who proceed will die. One can hear the guns of the Fawcett party barking. That was in year 1928. Then in year 1951 the Kalapalo after weeks of tribal council debate took Brazil indian agent Orlando Villas Boas to a spot not many hours from the Kalapalo villiage where after two hours of eloquent ceremony speeches they announced to Orlando Boas they had placed him (Orlando) on the spot where Colonel Fawcett was buried. They then dug up the Colonels bones on that spot along with a european machete buried with him. There is not much question they are the bones of Colonel Fawcett but is the spot the spot where he was killed and are the three Kalapalos who were said to have killed the Fawcett party over an insult the killers. Or even possibly were the bones of the Colonel disinterred on the Suia Missu river by the Kalapalo and transported fifty miles west to the Kalapalo land on basis of a payment unkinown to Orlando Boas to close out a case against the Suya or perhaps the Xavantes indians, the Seminole indians of South America, who the government of Brazil because of people's fear wanted very much to integrate into Brazil culture and right at that time year 1951 were in the process of doing so. In a court trial given the report of Commander George Dyott based on the words of chief Aloique to him, and the witness on the stand Ellen Basso, anthropolologist, who has lived with the Kalapalo and her book "IN FAVOR OF DECIET: A Study Of Tricksters In Amazonian Society" the Fawcett party case will never be proven beyond reasonable doubt. Being masters of deception is cherished in Kalapalo culture. It is honored. It would be good for a group talented in the language of Portugal to go through the Brazil archives to year 1925. The writer is professionally a social worker medical researcher of outstanding excellence. He knows when a research project has reached it's end. I have reached my end on this reasearch into the disappearance of the Fawcett exploration party as it come down to the language of Brazil which is the language of Portugal, which I have trouble converting from the Spanish and as well my Spanish is lacking considerably. Although I have had many many hours of Spanish instruction I have not had one hour of instruction in it's neighbor on it's western border language. The Brazil archive records relating to the reports of the Mato Grosso indian agent Orlando Villas Boas handling the Fawcett party case must be gone into exaustively.. This (photo below) is what Percy Fawcett was searching for. Nothing like it has ever been found in the low Amazon basin. This is Tiwanaku the most ancient city in the Americas. The beautiful wall stone was cut with brass saws about 400 B.C. replacing older wall stone formed by chipping. All unattractive stone parts of the wall were originally plated with gold and some gold remains in the nooks and crannies. Just to the front of the center of ancient Tiwanaku gate you see part of a temple located in a dug out pit which is an exact blueprint reproduction - minus the 400 B.C. beautiful wall stone - reproduction of an ancient Celtic temple of southern Germany in the distant B.C. era..Tiwanaku is on the northern perimeter of the Atlantis of Plato. Tiwanaku at 13,300 feet altitude sits above Lake Titicaca and has little to do with the value sought in Atlantis proper at the time of Plato which was Tin. The only other commercial Tin deposits in proportion in the world are at Cornwall, England, which held that monopoly. Tin was necessary for the defense of a nation and it's prosperity. There was also gold. The Atlantis proper of Plato is in the southern Altiplano of Bolivia at 11,000 feet altitude and it is the inland sea volcano island of Pampas Aullagas surrounded by water part of the year. Pampas Aullagas has been given by God everything man can desire. Man had to build nothing. God did all. Plato was not a native and it is doubtfull he was judged holy - which would have pemitted him to pass throught the gates when he visited Tiwanaku to the north. Rather there is a stairway you can spot in the photo that permits persons such as Plato to ascend and look into central Tiwanaku but not enter. Plato came in on the Greek Phoenician ships via the Amazon and overland or the Phoenician ships pulling into harbor at probably Arica, Chile. Some of the Phoenician fleet then sailed north to Ecuador and struck west on the Peru Current through the south sea islands to China. Plato is vague on this part so what he wrote about the south sea islands and China was from description of sailors. He himself returned with the other part of the Phoenician fleet loaded with tin, gold and other value to Greece. It will be noticed that much of the stone wall of Tiwanaku is missing. In the background is the today villiage of Tiwanaku and San Pedros church can be spotted. The beautiful metal saw cut stone from the ancient wall entirely built the church. In addition I note the old rail road which ran through that natural pass used some of it. It probably did not come from the wall of the center of Tiwanaku. I happened one day in late 2005 to have to go from Tiwanaku into the nearby city of El Alto. Bolivia and taking the stage back the driver thought I was going to a village nearer Lake Titicaca so going by Tiwanaku I got off on the paved road about four miles farther on from what you see in the photo and walked over fields, paths and dirt roads spotting a mile or two from what you see in the photos more of this beautiful cut stone in walls parts showing where the hooves of cattle, llamas, sheep and donkeys along with erosion had brought them into the sunlight. I apologize for the month (or months) I had reversed on this page survey minutes with survey seconds in my latitude - longitude locations. I am not a surveyor and have not had anything to do with surveying in more than a decade. In his book copyright 1930 first edition "Man Hunting In The Jungle" George Dyott presents the descrepency that Colonel Percy Fawcett in his last letter he sent out "that he was at the Dead Horse Camp (where he lost a horse on an earlier expedition) at latitude 11 south of the equator" - George Dyott gives only degrees (o) without going into minutes (') or seconds ("). As the Fawcett party was actually at latitude 11 degrees south of the equator and 43 minutes, very roughly rounded off the Fawcett party was on latitude 12 south of the equator and not latitude 11 south of the equator. This has caused some to give the location of the Colonel at Dead Horse Camp as 11 degrees south of the equator zero minutes and 43 seconds. This tripped my mind and caused me to reverse seconds for minutes. I have it corrected now. The original letter of Colonel Fawcett written at Dead Horse Camp will have to be looked at to see if he actually used 43 seconds and not 43 minutes - which changes his location rather drastically approaching 200 miles farther north in reference to the equator than he actually was at the Dead Horse Camp. The actual letter will have to be gained to reiterate - George Dyott may have read it - to see what George Dyott is talking about or simply he was not a professional surveyor. Also the page contains errors as the tribes in the Xingu are frequently not in the same locations they had been at the time of the Fawcett expedition of 1925 and Dyott expedition of 1928. An example the Mehinakua now occupy the viliage of the Anafukua and the Anafukua now live on the upper Kuluene (Xingu) river at the confluence of the Coliseu river with the Kuluene and no longer upriver on the Coliseu river where now the Mehinakua live. Commander George Dyott although a pilot by profession seems also to have been talented in surveying. At the beginning he had been fortunate he writes to have been able to hire Bernardino the former Bakairi indian guide of the Fawcett party and quickly found the Colonel did not take the Paranatinga river route north west to strike east to the Xingu at latitude 11 degrees south of the equator and south of the community of Alta Floresta, in the north Mato Grosso but instead from Posto Simoes Lopes indian trading post had struck directly north east towards the upper Xingu. Bernardino three days after leaving Posto Simoes Lopes pointed out to George Dyott Dead Horse Camp a place of pot holes in a smooth river bottom. At this point George Dyott relates in a round about way a latitude of 13 degrees 58' and a longitude of 54 degrees 31'. One can get these readings by the fact that he mentions after striking north east from Dead Horse Camp and the Batovi river in another ten minutes they encountered another river (which was also a stream). Going to the MSN Encarta map quadrangles the position of Dead Horse Camp was thus 13 degrees 58' south of the equator and not the 13 degrees 43' south of the equator Colonel Percy Fawcett gives we are commonly told and the longitude of Dead Horse Camp was 54 degrees 31' not 54 degrees 35' as Colonel Fawcett gives. The latitude is fifteen miles off in the Colonel's survey. Where they were located at Dead Horse Camp was on a far upper branch of the Batovi river where to the east just a mile or so distance another far upper branch of the Batovi will very soon join and help form the Batovi downriver. The spot is unique. George Dyott was indeed additionally a talented surveyor but in his chapter on Dead Horse Camp he makes survery errors also although in terms of the location of Dead Horse Camp the location he arrives at is accurate and the Colonel's location inaccurate. Dead Horse Camp was just above latitude 14 as George Dyot gives in his Dead Horse Camp chapter. He must be given credit. At the same time the twenty man Dyott party likely had in its carry burden heavy sophisticated surveying equipment and the three man Fawcett party was traveling light. When Colonel Fawcett was a major in rank working for the Government of Bolivia surveying the nations boundaries with Paraguay, Chile, Peru and Brazil his equipment amounted to a heavy carry burden and it was sophisticated and there were surveyors in the plural rechecking each other figures in these exceptionally important tasks. All surveyors make errors. Almost due north of the real Dead Horse Camp located by George Dyot with a photo of it in his book, about 20 miles north and slightly to the east is a very high very isolated hill of no significant diameter which could have afforded excellent defensive perimeters for ancients from across the Atlantic. It is too bad the Colonel did not take some extra days to hike up there and investigate it's top. I note Joseph Smith leader of the Mormons when in his younger years he resided in western New York State along it's border with Pennsylvania was thrown in jail for leading digs on high isolated hill tops in what the local newspapers termed leading people into neer do well work and divers occupations. The hill is only a convient half day walk from what is generally given as the location of Dead Horse Camp at latitude 13 43 longitude54 35 as the Colonel wrote in his last letter sent out expedition in 1925. On an earlier expedition in the area prior to 1925 the Colonel had Orthinologists in his party and the top of this hill would provide an excellet place to study eagles nesting. It is probable latitude 13 43 longitude 54 35 was a camp on the earlier expediton and he mixed it up in terms of survey values with Dead Horse Camp 15 miles to the south and slightly east which was also a camp on an earlier expedition(s) and which the Fawcett party used in 1925 also and the Dyott party in 1928. I do not know if I am the first to track down on the MSN Encarta Map quadrangles the actual location of the real Dead Horse Camp as pointed out by guide Bernardino to Commander George Dyot which is at latitude 13 degrees 58' south of the equator longitude 54 degrees 31' which was then photographed with a photo later in 1930 placed in his book "Man Hunting In The Jungle". Very likely others have tracked down the spot on the river. It is simply a river spot on a far upper branch of the Batovi river with a smooth rock bottom with pot holes resulting from whirlpool currents that swirl grinding gravel coming dowriver, located a mile or two south from where another far upriver branch of the Batovi joins it and which hikers can reach in two days. It was a spot to camp. A major flood the year before in 1927 apparantly had washed any horse bones away as none were found by the Dyott party. If the area is auriferous the pot holes would be an excellent place to pan out any newly washed downriver by floods captured gold nuggets if someone has not gotten there first. I do not know if the area is auriferous. At Calcoene hill back in the jungle in the undeveloped Brazil Amazon state of Amapa, upriver of the Calcoene lighthouse where the river empties into the Atlantic where probably a 3,000 B.C. lighthouse existed, near the north side of the mouth of the Amazon river at 02 degrees 30' north of the equator and 01 degrees 30' north of the northern lip of the Amazon river confluence with the Atlantic ocean, a nine foot high 3,000 B.C. stonehenge type stone computer for dertermining winter solstice has just been discovered in an area of the world that still has many secrets to reveal. It is the first find of its kind found in the Amazon and was constructed by very ancient B.C. peoples from across the Atlantic where these stone computers are not uncommon. Villages are always found near the locations of these ancient computers and that will be the case at Calcoene hill in years to come. A Brazil university is now beginning to study the computer it's location given to them by project surveyors. This is what Colonel Percy Fawcett was looking for. To reiterate it is the first of it's kind found in the Amazon - and it will be preserved can be safely said, it's stone not used in modern day building projects. I have the book Man Hunting In The Jungle, first edtion, By George Dyott, copyright by George Dyott in 1930, in front of me on my desk as I write this, and 23 years later the Boas brothers entered the picture becoming world respected and famous as champions of the rights of the indians of the Xingu. They were pioneers. Basically they are unimpeachable. I had to go to the Spanish language (the language of Portugal would be better) on some of this and my Spanish is lacking. I believe I have it correct. All that can be said that is beyond reasonable doubt is that the bones of Colonel Percy Fawcett were dug up on Kalapalo land after weeks of tribal meetings and they were dug up in front of Orlando Boas the indian agent in a formal lengthy Kalapalo ceremony lasting two hours in 1951, which is 26 years after the Fawcett party met their deaths. The details of the killings may have changed. However there is no reason to believe with any strength the Kalapalos - as a tribe - were anything but friendly to the Fawcett party, as they were to the Dyott party. One can not speak of individuals however. The bones of Colonel Percy Fawcett can be viewed on a table with cloth in the early 1950's with Orlando Villas Boas, the Mato Grosso Xingu indian agent standing looking on and to reach this photo go to the very bottom of this page to the Wikimedia link resting directly and immediately on the ancient B.C. Hebrew Phoenician maps of South America. The bones in terms of those present and missing are what chief Aloique of the brother to the Kalapalo Nafukua tribe described 23 years earlier would be present and missing when he showed the bones to George Dyott. The writer wants to give somewhat more to the Kalapalo tribe and consider accurate the location chief Aloique gave as the location of the killings of the Fawcett party which was at approximate latitude 12 degrees 40' south of the equator longitude 52 degrees 10' on the banks of the upper rio Suia Missu as being where the killings for reasons unknown took place as instigated by the Kalapalo Kabukuiri, and the Kalapalo upon learning of the killings retrieved the bones of the Colonel and buried them on Kalapalo land. However it is imagination and it was on Kalapalo land and not hunting grounds of the Suya and Xavantes the killings of the Fawcett party took place. The goal of most research ongoing at present into the Fawcett party disappearance is to find the spot the party lost their lives and erect grave stones in that proper exact spot. Reading the language of Portugal, the language of Brazil indian agent Orlando Boas, as found in the Brazil Government archives for a number of reasons will be most helpful. The Brazil state of Mato Grosso in the Xingu indian agent Orlando Villas Boas was privy piece by piece to details on the killing of the Fawcett party for more than one year before the Kalapalo went to council over the weeks in 1951 and formally announced the killing at a two hour formality with Orlando Boas present that day and it was he who handled the disclosure. The location of the killings of the Fawcett party was directly in the Kalapalo lands and not near fifty miles direct march east to latitude 12 degrees 40' south of the equator, longitude 52 degrees 10' which location is immediately on the banks of a canoeable part of the upper rio Suia Missu and a hunting grounds of the Suya and Xavantes indians and the location where Eloique chief of the Anahukua (Nafukua) tribe said Suya indians pretending to be friends had killed the Fawcett party. Aloique even knew the time of day of the killings which was 3:00 P.M. The rio Suia Missu runs from this location just given in a north westerly direction to Latitude 11degrees 15' Longitude 53degrees 15' where it enters the Xingu (Kuluene) river. Commander George Dyott thought at the time Aloique's story somewhat slanted, not totally on the level. The Kalapalo were friendly but George Dyott left the Kalapalo temporarily for down river where thousands of unrelated indians began arriving looking for precious knives as gifts and the situation was on the edge of hostility as supply was in no measure adequate and the Dyott party with a promise to distribute in the morning escaped during the night downriver. Thus the Dyott party never got to the banks of the upper rio Suia Missu to look for the body of the Colonel where Aloique said he could take them to it. That was in 1928. Then in 1932 Peter Fleming, the brother of Ian Fleming, made a bold canoe journey searching for the Fawcett party down the wild stretch of the Great Araguaya river to the Tapirapi river and up its headwaters untill he was near 50 miles east of on a cross over to the location on the banks of the upper rio Suia Missu where chief Aloique said the Fawcett party was killed, the Dyott party being near 50 miles west of this supposed location of the killings. But Peter Fleming as with the Dyott party who did not cross eastward the near 50 miles did not cross westward the near 50 miles into this hunting grounds in the rio Suia Missu of the Suya and Xavantes indians these being the Seminole indians of South America not known for another 25 years. Thus in 1932 the search for the Fawcett party ended. Orlando Villas Boas and his brother Claudio, also a Mato Grosso indian agent, relate how it began with Colonel Fawcett by choice or design making Kabukuiri, a Kalapalo he met in the brother Nafuqua village, his guide. Upon arriving with the Kalapalo on the Kuluene river the Colonel, who first had spoken with a Kalapalo at Posto Simoes Lopes indian trading post, went to see Cayado the grand chief of the Kalapalo. The meeting went well and Cayado would not stand in the Colonel's way of hiring Kalapalo men to cross east to the Great Araguaya river, the formal Fawcett approved plan for the expedition where we must assume he was heading, the Araguaya river being his exit point. A problem arose however over the scarce supply of necklaces the Colonel had with him and more debate with himself if he should give Kabukuiri the necklace promised him or save it for a braver Kalapalo to accompany the expedition. My Spanish is not the best but that is the way I read it. And on a day the Fawcett party was hunting ducks the Colonel shot a duck which Jack retrieved and the Colonel used his impressive knife he kept in his belted sheath by his side to clean and defeather the duck and upon putting the knife back in his sheath Kabukuiri took it out without permission to look at it and the Colonel demanded it back to which Kabukuiri complied but took offense. Then Kabukuiri went among the Kalapalos stating he was going to kill the Colonel to which the Kalapalos listened but did not believe he was serious. The Fawcett party following decided to strike eastward without Kalapalo braves. And it would seem Kabukuiri yet not having the promised necklace although the Colonel may have well presented it to him before he left. Kabukuiri, his son Kururi and son in law Kaloene then at the green lagoon surprised the Fawcett party and clubbed them to death. If one can struggle with some Spanish one can get the privy information as related by Orland Villas Boas. It is ironic at the Nafuqua villiage George Dyott found three Kalapalo men in the Nafucua villiage on the Kulusue river heading back to the Kalapalo village on the Kuluene river. The Kalapalo tribe was large and of about eight hundred members but it is not impossible Kubukuri, Kururi or Kaloene were one or more of the Kalapalo accompanying George Dyott to the Kalapalo village. It is not known if Kabukuri, Kururi or Kaloene were on that march with George Dyott. An early 1950's photo of the bones of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett can be viewed on the Wikimedia link I have placed far down at the very bottom of this page resting directly and immediately on the ancient B.C. Hebrew - Phoenician maps of South America. The bones are resting on a table with a cloth. It is a vivid photo. And looking on is the Brazil Mato Grosso Indian agent Orlando Villas Boas. What remains of these bones dug up 1951 at the Green Lagoon lake is exactly in terms of the particular bones seen what chief Aloique of the Anafucua brothers of the Kalapalo said were remaining which he was apologetic for in 1928 to George Dyott towards a clear understanding what a bargain for them at that time 23 years earlier would produce. Where the Green Lagoon the Fawcett party was killed at is located presents a question. It is not very far from the Kalapalo village on the Kuluene river. By the word of Orlando Boas who hiked to the Green Lagoon crossing the Kuluene from west to east to do so it is less than a half day hike on foot. Orland Villas Boas hiked there to watch the bones of Colonel Percy Fawcett be dug up and he was not inconvenienced. Walking no more than a few hours east of the Kuluene river he arrived by early mid afternoon not having crossed the Kuluene from the west bank untill late morning. The Chiefs especially chief Aloique of the Anafucua talking to George Dyott put the Fawcett party on a four to five day march heading directly east beginning the march on the east bank of the Kuluene river upriver a few miles from where the Tanguro river enters the Kuluene flowing down from the Roncador hills and mountains. From the east bank of the Kuluene striking directly east a four to five day march puts the Fawcett party exactly on the banks of the upper Suia Missu river - in that amount of days. It is the river of the Suya although upriver the Xavantes hunted there. And there were the Gayapos nomad indians with no mapable territory who inhabited the central and eastern Mato Grosso being wandering hunters. They were dangerous indians as well. It was an obsession with the chief Aloique that the Suya killed the Fawcett party on the fifth day of the eastward march which would have at it's end exited on the Great Araguaya river according to the plan Colonel Fawcett had formally presented. Chief Aloique even knew the time of the killings relating to George Dyott it was on the fifth day of the Fawcett party march at 3:00 P.M. However as it turns out the Green Lagoon is not some forty miles plus distance east of the Kuluene river on the river Suia Missu but is only a few hours hike or canoe trip from the Kuluene river and Kalapalo village. This is irresolvable. The Fawcett party may have been in the upper Xingu Kalapalo area for months before they were killed, investigating great ancient communities that we now know exist there. And no tall Kalapalo chief was dug up for his bones at the Green Lagoon and make look like they were Colonel Fawcetts bones. All Kalapalo chiefs are buried in the center of their village plaza and not at green lagoons. George Dyott makes a point in his book Man Hunting In The Jungle, first edition, copyright by George Dyott 1930, mentioning that Kalapalo children seem only to be disciplined by the witch doctor most parents passing the buck to him and he considered them very misbehaved and annoying. As well George Dyott in his book writes that all indians if one is handed a banana and there are twenty three others he will divide the banana into twenty four equal portions. I think it doubtful they expected this sharing from a white man and the Fawcett party must have been with the Kalapalo a long while for the Kalapalo to expect them to share a duck they had shot with a large Kalapalo group. The Colonel could have slapped a male youth for grabbing for his machete. No question there. Slapping was part of his personality. Disciplining ends up by Kalapalo parental choice the job of the Kalapalo witch doctor. George Dyott makes points of all this and makes no mention that anyone told him the Colonel ever slapped a Kalapalo youth - it seems George Dyott would have liked to slap some youth in the plural - or failed to share a duck with the Kalapalo village. He writes the Kalapalo are very friendly people with the women independently agressive which is a feature he had never seen in any tribe before. In the village three women visited him wanting to give him each their daughter as a wife which turned out to border on a squabble as to whose daughter would be his wife. Kalapalo frequented the Posto Simoes Lopes trading post where the Fawcett party and Dyott party launched their strike from. They knew that white men made good husbands. The reason however looked at in more depth may be Xingu wars and attrition on the Kalapalo male population. And George Dyott was told the Fawcett party only stayed in the Kalapalo village one day and struck eastward. One version now on line which may pretend at least to have an origin (origin is not given) with Orlando Boas is that the Chief of the Kalapalo gave the Fawcett party one of his wives, not beyond being conceived of in the Xingu culture, and in return later the chief was rewarded with a slap by Colonel Fawcett for not providing canoes and men to successfully complete the expedition journey to the Great Araguaya river, the expedition place of exit. Like the failing to share a duck with the tribe and slapping a child who grabbed at his machete version which also is implied originates with Orlando Boas both of these versions could be true. But certainly the Fawcett party spent weeks or months in the camp becoming in a sense part of the tribe before anything like this would happen. Possible but more likely it is made up for the sensational news. Also there is the question that the original proposed Fawcett expedition plan with a strike east from the Paratinga river near Alta Floresta by a surveyor could ultimately send trade from the Xingu westward that would not be captured by the Cuyaba, Corumba to Sao Paulo route. How happy would that make merchants along this old route. It would make them jittery. Well, Aloique could throw the bull and so could the other chiefs. But it was not all bull. We do not know how long the Fawcett party remained at the Kalapalo village. It could have been for months. Certainly it was not the case as chief Aloique tried to convince George Dyott that after a day in the Kalapalo camp the Fawcett party struck directly east fifty miles being in five days march on the banks of the Suia Missu river where at 3:00 P.M. on the afternoon of the fifth day Suya gained their trust and then knocked them over the head. A new methodology needs to be employed to get at the truth. Firstly to obtain in the Brazil Government archives the totality of the official 1951 reports of Orlando Villas Boas the indian agent handling the disclosed killing of the Fawcett party by the Kalapalo and any reports thereafter concerning the death of the Fawcett party. The Kalapalo said in 1951 they killed the Fawcett party and Orlando Boas later in his eighties in the late 1990's then living in La Paz, Bolivia confirmed for the final time the Kalapalo did the killings of Colonel Fawcett and party. He did not give the motive for the killings. His belief for their change of story is that they had become scared. Scared perhaps of having a skewness against them other tribes of the Xingu are not burdened with in terms of proceedings in the courts of Brazil to regain some of their Piqui Orchards and land for other purposes not within the set aside Xingu reserve but held by Brazilian ranchers and farmers nearby. Scared the Kalapalo will decrease because of a skewness burden of the Fawcett party killings while other tribes in the courts are increasing. There are no truths outside the gates of Eden. The greatest of all masters of the chess board of the indians of the Mato Grosso was General Candido Rondon. Born in Cuyaba in the central Mato Grosso, himself part indian.You see his terse hypothesis on the Fawcett party expedition disappearance in the Title of this page. On the edge of Xavantes territory the Xavantes were greatly feared by the Kalapalo and Kalapalo accompanying the Fawcett party across Xavantes lands to the Great Araguaya river could cause the Xavantes to descimate the Kalapalo village. There is a full page photo of him in Man Hunting In The Jungle. I have Man Hunting In The Jungle by George Dyott, first edition setting on the desk in front of me reading it. It is a very valuable book by numerous measures. I read it a few years earlier in terms of a measure or purpose it is not valuable for which is native medicine of the Mato Grosso. Thus I did not commit it to memory in detail but what I was very interested in was the yellow-black feathers warning on the trail back in the uninhabited wilderness only a relatively few miles from the Tanguro mile wide green lagoon lake where the Kalapalo in 1951 announced in a lengthy and formal ceremony at the lake where Colonel Fawcett's bones were dug up that the Kalapalo killed the Fawcett party at that location. The Fawcett party supposedly was well armed with ample ammunition and were the guns of the Fawcett party at war with the Kalapalo or who was at war with who, as one of the Chiefs was insistant only a white man would have used string as was used to hang up the yellow-black feathers sign of death to those crossing and the Fawcett party were the only white people in the area. String was available at Posto Simoes Lopes trading post where the upper Xingu indians traded but it would be unheard of for an indian to use it for such a feathers warning sign. But it is probably unheard of for the Kalapalos who today run their Harleys through the Xingu to be running their Harleys through the Xingu. Another chief did not know who put the sign up but it was there. The motive for the killings would be a lot less fuzzy if we could see the complete set of 1951reports of Orlando Villas Boas the indian agent handling the matter submitted to the Brazil government and now in archives. The Government of Brazil in the news was that year very proud of it's indian agent Orlando Boas heaping praise on him. The Fawcett Mato Grosso exploration party went missing 1925. It is clear the burial of Colonel Fawcett with his european make machete was on Kalapalo land and some time in terms of weeks elapsed for animals of the forest to eat the body and carry some of the bones away untill his body was buried. Chief Aloique of the Anafucua brothers of the Kalapalo lends to George Dyott it was perhaps a month before the body was discovered and buried. He was apologetic that many of the skeleton bones were not there. It was on Kalapalo land the remains of the Colonel were found and perhaps for that reason the Kalapalo believed 23 years following the Dyott expedition they killed the Fawcett party and have conjured up a story around it. I do not know. Perhaps the other Anafucua chief Comazulla who acted as guide to the Fawcett party and the two Anafucua indian women who were bearers leading the Fawcett party to the Indian piqui orchard approaching near the lands of the Suya and Xavantes when they had the Fawcett party in their confidence and sitting on a log concentrating on their food struck them from behind on the head killing them to rob them of their guns and valuables. The other Anafucua chief Aloique was constantly describing how the Suya trick their victems and kill them this way. Where are the Anafukua today in all of this? The Fawcett party hardly knew the Kalapalo. They were much more familiar with the Anafukua during the time the Fawcett party was in the Xingu and the last people to see the Fawcett party far into the villageless uninhabited part of the Xngue approaching the Suya and Xavantes land were the Anafukua. Comazulla, the two indian bearer women, the Colonel, Jack and Raleigh are who visited the Kalapalo village, it being Comazulla who gave them their introduction. And without delay the six continued on eastward nearer to the land of the Suya and Xavantes. Where are the bones of the Colonel today we see resting on the table with Brazil indian agent Orlando Boas in 1951 (to view these bones in a very vivid photo see the Wikimedial link at the very bottom of this page resting immediately and directly above the ancient B.C. Hebrew-Phoenician maps). What will an examination of those bones reveal? On the trail beginning on the east side of the Indian piqui orchard, that side closest to the Suya and Xavantes lands, someone hung up on string the yellow-black feathers a universal Amazon indian sign meaning those who cross will be killed. Chief Aloique of the Ananukua village argued with Commander George Dyott that no indian would use string to hang up the yellow-black feathers on trail as notice that all crossing would be killed and argued the Fawcett party put them up. The Kalapalo chief told George Dyott someone put them up being very general. The Anahukua (Nahukua) men were friendy but when George Dyott specifically tried to engage a number of them about in conversation of going with him on expedition east beyond the Kuluene river to the Great Araguaya river they all would slap the back of their head which was sign language for Suya and decline. The Suya were the Seminole indians of South America. Brazil knew of them but did not know them untill they came to the table in 1960 and the Government of Brazil did not know the feared Xavantes untill 1950. The Anahuaca chief Comazulla George Dyott learned did agree to take the Fawcett party as far east of the Kuluene river as the wilderness nature food Indian piqui orchard which both Ananauka and Kalapalo brother indians, both Carribe language indians, used with Comazalla guiding and two women to carry, about a thirty five mile journey directly east from the Ananakua villiage on the Coliseu (Kulusuv) river. Colonel Fawcett in the journey George Dyott learned from Comuzalla had the women go by canoe across the wide lake when they reached it while he walked around it many miles and met the party on the other side (he was probably investigating border areas of the interesting canals of which there is significant probability are ancient man made). Crossing the lake and continuing on the next day subsequently reaching the Kalapalo villiage on the Kuluene around mid afternoon Colonel Fawcett, Jack and Raleigh, Comuzalla and the two Anahukua indian women then continued on to about five miles east of the Kuluene river where the east flowing Tanguro river empties into the Kuluene. This Orchard is uninhabited wilderness and was one major source of village food. Reaching it necessitated a wilderness march east away from the Kuluene river and Kalapalo villiage. This orchard was the final destination of Comazalla and the women who would subsequently return to their villiage from this point. The next few days following the westward return of Comazalla and the women the Fawcett party was alone meeting their death during this period according to Aloique and the Kalapalo chief. East beyond the piqui orchard the Fawcett party proceeded a few miles to the Tanguro river green lagoon lake where they camped and before that march, on the east side of the orchard according to chief Aloique, the Fawcett party because it was put up with string hung on the trail eastward the yellow-black feathers indicating Fawcett rifles would fire to kill on anyone who crossed the warning feathers. But this could not be true if they were looking to recruit Kalapalo for the journey to the Tapirapi river to the Great Araguaya river along the presented and approved Fawcett exploration plan for this expedition. In this case they would have know they were still on Kalapalo land and did not put up the feathers logically else there would be no recruiting. It is however not known if the Fawcett party realized they were still on Kalapalo land where the Kalapalo search for honey on the trails, and not yet on Suya land at the nexis where it border with Xavantes land. It is a most serious thing to hang up the yellow-black feathers. Both Percy Fawcett and George Dyott knew what it meant. It does not make sense the Colonel would hang up on a string on the trail east of the Indian piqui orchard the yellow black feathers, the lands belonging to the Kalapalo and on a trail they hunt bee honey from. Such yellow-black feathers being the universal Amazon indian way of saying death is the measure given to anyone who crosses this line. Not with the Fawcett party subsequently remaining a number of days within 3-4 hours night strike by canoe by the Kalapalo up the Tanguro river to protect the lives of Kalapolo on Kalapalo lands hunting honey, from the guns of the Fawcett party. It screams against logic. Yet in 1928 chief Aloique of the Naufucua (Anafukua) brother indians of the Kalapalo did his best to convince Commander George Dyott the Fawcett party hung up on the trail the yellow-black feathers because trading post string was used which is not the indian way and that the Fawcett party then remained on the Kalapalo land just east for half a week untill they were visited by Suya indians who in the way of Suya Aloique described vividly tricked them by offering them food, gaining their confidence and getting the Fawcett party to sit down occupied with the food while the Suya then suddenly clubbed them from behind on the head. And the Kalapalo chief also related that someone had hung the yellow-black feathers up with a string but was more general simply stating that someone had, he did not know who. The Kalapalo chief told George Dyott he suspected his brothers the Anafucua village stating they had a bad streak, although they were brothers who could enter the Kalapalo camp unannounced. Certainly it did not happen this way with the yellow-black feathers on the string supposidly hung up by the Fawcett party on the trail on the east side of the Indian orchard. And in terms of the use of string unless it was a bandit group both indian and white who hung the feathers up. Otherwise it is a clever way to justify the killing of the Fawcett party by the Anafukua or Kalapalo as being of self defense. That the Fawcett party with it's guns made war on the Kalapalo. It is a matter of truth the Colonel had a few weeks earlier taken two canoes unattended near the Coliseu (Kulusuve) river headwaters belonging to Anafucua indians without searching out their owners for permission but he knew downriver upon reaching their village 60 miles distance he could pay the price for forgiveness to the tribe and to the canoe owners for causing them a long walk, with a plea (as hypothetical example) the Fawcett group had urgent need for indian medicine for the leg. The indians remember someone in the Fawcett party having trouble walking. Colonel Fawcett could never however pay the price for killing Kalapalo on a trail on their own lands they were hunting honey on. The price would be the price of the Fawcett party lives. He knew that. It defies logic and good sense. Thus the Fawcett party killings reflect more in Kalapalo motive - assuming the Kalapalo did it (as in 1951 they admitted to the killings) - around the thinking of General Candido Rondon who knew more about Mato Grosso indians that anyone alive, General Rondon to be mentiond again for not the first time shortly. The Fawcett party with the Anahucua indians willing to accompany them no farther than the piqui Indian orchard towards Suya and Xavantes lands were probably recruiting Kalapalo at the Tanguro river green lagoon lake of the Kalapalo to go with them to the Great Araguaya river which could have brought decimation of the Kalapalo village by the Xavantes once the party crossed into Xavantes land. If the Fawcett party was camped at the small mile wide lake (called the green lagoon) recruiting Kalapalo then the Fawcett party did certainly not put up the yellow-black feathers as that would mean for Kalapalo to approach the Fawcett party or even be seen on the trail by the Fawcett party would mean death from the Fawcett party guns. It seems the Kalapalo and Anafuckua indians found the body of Colonel Fawcett at the green lagoon about a month following last seeing his camp fire smoke and buried him. In terms of the photo link you will find as you read down this page of the 1951 dug up bones of Colonel Fawcett on a table with a cloth with Orlando Boas watching on, Chief Aloque as George Dyott gives in Man Hunting In The Jungle was able to tell George Dyott specifically in 1928 what bones would be found and what bones would be missing as is seen in the photo. The bones on the table were dug up by the Kalapalo indians in 1951who admitted to reiterate to the killings relating this in front of the Brazil indian agent shown, Orlando Boas, and the bones viewed are the skeletel bones specifically as described missing and not missing, in terms of the animal eaten and bones carried away skeleton of Colonel Percy Fawcett, to George Dyott by Aloique, chief of the Nahukua, in 1928, twenty three years earlier. The Kalapalo having after much formal ceremony announced they murdered the Fawcett party and digging up the bones up. Following the formal ceremony things become fuzzy. Orlando Villas Boas the indian agent in the photo behind the table with Colonel Fawcett's bones on it was a great well meaning and well known man on a world level but to go farther it is necessary to produce from the Brazil archives his complete word for word reports as the indian agent taking care of the matter........The conclusion is the Kalapalo clubbed the Fawcett party to death at the green lagoon lake at order of the chief of the Kalapalo as Colonel Fawcett was putting pressure on the Kalapalo village to assist him in such a way across Xavantes land to the Great Araguaya river and they perceived doing so would bring down the wrath of the much larger fierce neighboring Xavantes tribe who the Kalapalo feared greatly. This is a conclusion that does not fall far away from the idea of the venerable Brazil General (Marshall) Candido Rondon who knew more about Mato Grosso indians than any man alive. This outdoor Mato Grosso photo of the early 1950s shows the bones of Colonel Percy Fawcett resting on a table with white cloth with the Brazil indian agent Orlando Villas Boas standing behind the table and bones. I have placed this photo for accessing at the very bottom of this page by way of the Wikimedial link resting directly and immediately on top of the ancient B.C. Hebrew-Phoenician maps of South America for those who want to look at the vivid photo. It can be said probably honestly that the Kalapalo or Nahuka (Anahuaka) both Caribe brother tribes found the partly decomposed and animal eaten body of Colonel Fawcett far back from the Kalapalo village on wild uninhabited Kalapalo lands and buried what remained of the Colonel in lengthy ceremony with principle men of the tribe present as is their custom, along with the European machete buried with him to be in his possession in the afterlife. The body was found on remote Kalapalo land ten miles east of the Kalapalo village where the lands of the Kalapalo, Xavantes and Suya meet and in absense of evidence or with evidence the Kalapalo assumed those who did the killing were Kalapalo or knew those who did the killing were Kalapalo as the body was found on Kalapalo land. These are the remaining bones which in 1928 chief Aloique in the upper Xingu on the Coliseu river (often spelled with a K knew exactly were remaining - and those not remaining - as he related to Commander George Dyott in terms of apology in the bargaining process for the bones to insure ahead of time what was to be disclosed would be understood (for the above disclosure by Aloique as to specifically what bones were there and not there see page 244, Man Hunting In The Jungle, by George Dyott, 1st edition, copyright George Dyott 1930). The chiefs of the Anahuaca Caribe language people on the Coliseu river and their brother Caribe language Kalapalo-Kuikuro whose village was on the west side of the Kuluene river (Xingu river) hold in common a remote from villages Indian nature orchard of piqui they depend on for one important source of food, reached by trail far back in the wilderness from the east bank of the Kuluene river opposite the Kalapalo-Kuikuro village that was a short distance west of the west bank of the Kuluene. The chiefs of the Anahakua villiage on the Coliseu river had crossed the Kuluene river a few miles south of where the Tanguro river flows from the east into the upper Xingu (Kuluene) river and the chief Aloique of the Nauhuka told George Dyott he remained on the Kuluene with the Kalapalo but the sub chief Kabuzalla and two indian women bearers accompanied the Fawcett party continuing eastward back to the remote Indian orchard but Kabuzala and the two indian women went no farther than the Indian orchard and did not witness the killing of the Fawcett party which Aloique said was done by Suya and the chief of the Kalapalo told Commander George Dyott he suspicioned was done by the Anahukua. To reiterate Cabuzalla and the two bearer indian women went no farther than the remote Indian orchard meaning the Fawcett party then took the trail about a half day march farther east down from the higher Indian orchard to the small lagoon lake on the Tanguro river. Which was another few miles more distant eastward than the remote Indian orchard from the Kuluene river and Kalapalo village - the Fawcett party campsite then ten miles distance back in the wilderness from the indian inhabited Kuluene river to the west. The Fawcett party never proceeded farther than this camp on the small green lagoon lake as it is sometimes called on the Tanguro river. And if they had farther easterly they would have crossed the territorial line into Suya and Xavantes territory. According to chief Aloique as he had figured it out the Fawcett party then shot a bird with black and yellow feathers which is a universal Amazon indian taboo warning meaning "death for crossing the line". The Fawcett party hung this at the east end of Indian orchard before descending the short half day march to the Tanguro river and green lagoon lake where they camped. Aloique said it would have been the Fawcett party who hung up the taboo sign on the trail as Indians never use string for such a sign, that string for this taboo sign was employed and string for this purpose is used only by white men. Both Kalapalo and Anahuaca in weeks that came to pass visiting the Orchard had noticed the taboo sign of death awaiting those crossing. The behavior of George Dyott was always appropriately very considerate. He would have never taken canoes of indian travelers far from home without permission. That Colonel Fawcett did without permission as reported by Fawcett party camarada Bernardino may have gotten around and the Kalapalo who had uses for the trail now taboo who used it, such as collecting honey, and believed they would be shot without asking questions as the yellow-black feathers sign indicated for search for honey on their own land. Thus the Kalapalo possibly came with canoes up the Tanguro one night and ambushed the Fawcett party with war clubs while they were sleeping. By their own account they were watching the Fawcett camp fire and watched it for four days as likely as not to determine if it was safe to walk the trail again and finding it was not. This is one of a number of cogent hypothesis. Now longer with women bearers if what chief Aloique told is true which Commander Dyott had doubts about - the veracity of Aloique, the Fawcett party may have been camped at the small Tanguro river lake contemplating their next move, whether to cross the Suia Missu valley to the headwaters of the Tapirapi river and outposts of civilization some 120 miles distant to the north east from where they were at now at the green lagoon, thus reaching the Great Araguaya river and Bananal or to call off the exploration and head south west to the headwaters of the Coliseu river and return to Posto Simoes Lopes. Or it could have been bandits - a group of whites and indians - that put up the yellow-black feathers taboo sign on the trail using string and they killed the Fawcett party for valuables. Or the Caribe language speaking chiefs had made this story up of the yellow black feathers taboo hung on the trail with string to justify killing the Fawcett party in self defense as this was their land. Reiterating in any case by Aloique's story none of his people witnessed the killings of the Fawcett party the last Kabuzalla and the women bearers having left shortly before at the approximate location of the yellow and black feather trail taboo warning sign. Reiterating yet again Aloque stopped striking east with the Fawcett party at the Kuluene river and Cabazala and the indian women stopped on the eastward strike a half day march not as far eastward from where the Fawcett party met their death at the Tanguro river green lagoon. The remains of Colonel Fawcett were subsequently buried some time later after forest animals had eaten the body and carried away part of the bones. If the Kalapalo of Anahuaca killed the Fawcett party why did they not bury the Colonel's bones immediately? As to the Kalapalo women a unique group with much independence did they demand later hearing of the killings for the Kalapalo to go back and bury him? No one knows. But they are not the bones of a Kalapalo chief as the Kalapalo bury their chiefs in the village plaza. Are they the bones of some European gold prospector that are handy for a Fawcett party story. No one knows. The bones are the bones of a very tall big man and one look at the skull says it can be none other than Percy Harrison Fawcett. According to Orlando Villas Boas the bones were dug up in his presence and presented to him by the Kalapalo who had killed Colonel Fawcett about two decades and one half earlier, after a long formal ceremony he attended. A European manufactured machete was also found buried with the skeleton for use in the after life at the mile wide lake, some call the green lagoon, east of the Kalapalo village a distance of eight miles upriver on the Tanguro river from where the Tanguro empties into the Kuluene river (name for the upper Xingu river) near the Kalapalo village. The writer does not know if there is a Brazil government plaque at the small lake about the deaths of the Fawcett party at that place. There should be if there is not one at the site now. General Candido Rondon accepted that the Fawcett party was killed at the lake and the ideas of the venerable Brazil general should be given their due consideration as to what led up to their deaths. Yet one can never be 100% certain. In very early times populations migrated from Bernia, called that by the Romans, which was Spain-Portugal and formed the major blood group of the British Islands. Ireland was called Hybernia by the Romans. Later migrating Celts originally from a southern Germany homeland invaded Spain, Portugal and the British Islands. The bones could belong to a Portugese trader-gold prospector who was valuable to them the Kalapalo let use the small lake as his camp. And some indian skulls resembly closely European skulls. The Mohegan indians of the United States of America New York State Hudson Valley when the Europeans arrived were found to be 15-20% auburn haired with freckles and blue -brown eyes. The Viking Scandinavians much earlier noted indians that looked like this also. The neighbor Mohawk indians were all dark haired and dark eyed. And we know now the indian language of the United States of America New England States is ancient galic brought from the British Islands. Absolute certainty is thus impossible to reach. However what is certain is that the bones were not of an Indian chief as Kalapalo bury their chiefs in the central villiage plaza and not eight or ten miles back from the village in remote wild land. And Orlando Boas describes a walk the day the bones of Colonel Fawcett were presented to him that took crossing the Kuluene eastward early not arriving at the small lake untill mid afternoon of the day, the Kalapalo coming to get him very early in the morning at his camp west of the Kuluene. They crossed the Kuluene and walked eastward to the lake in a large party rather than canoe up the Tanguro river. When a Major working for Bolivia in border surveying the Colonel a dedicated amature archaeologist was always interested in historical archaeology and the settlements of ancient peoples from across the oceans in South America, and until his death remained dedicated to this pursuit of knowledge breaking the way for professional archaeologists. This year 2007 a brilliant light is shining on the Amazon for the first time in the study of an ancient people of 5,000 years ago who crossed the Atlantic and built there stone computer - of which some eighty to ninety percent are found in the British Islands - on Calcoene hill in the state of Amapa, Brazil to define the winter solstice, the Calcoene river of Amapa state entering the Atlantic at Calcoene lighthouse at 01 degree 30' north of the the muddy discharge of the Amazon river which empties by the equator. The equatorial Brazil state of Amapa is undeveloped and a team of project surveyors reported the site. There are always ancient settlements near these ancient computers and usually well covered, buried and blended by time. It will take twenty years of future archaeological study or more untill we fully understand Calcoene. To reiterate there should be a Brazil Government marker at the small Tanguro river lake where the Fawcett party met it's death in 1925. In 1932 Peter Fleming - brother of 007 - searching for the Fawcett party did his job well by canoe down the primative and wild part of the Great Araguaya river along the west side of the Bananal the exit point of the Fawcett party after they had crossed the lands, in which as Colonel Fawcett wrote they would be in the hands of the Gods, in terms of the formal approved plan set down in 1924 and put into effect in the Fawcett party expedition 1925. And Peter Fleming upon reaching the Tapirape river confluence with the Great Araguaya river moved westward up to the headwaters of the Tapirape river to a point the Fawcett party would have reached first before reaching the Araguaya river and Bananal to what Peter Fleming said was within 100 miles (closer to 80 miles) east of the George Dyott expedition of 1928 reported last known location of the Fawcett party. Peter Fleming did not find the Fawcett party neither alive and well or anyone who knew of them or their deaths. And before the Fawcett party deaths can be brought to a reasonable close there must be much more intensive than has been so far discussion with the Suya indians and Xavantes indians. And there is the incorrect location given early in the Fawcett party expedition of being 140 miles farther north towards the equator than was the case. This error was the latitude of being located 11degrees 43' south of the equator at the Dead Horse Camp Colonel Fawcett noted in a letter and gave to his guide who was soon to depart from the party, Bernardino, to carry out. The reason for the error will never satisfactorily be figured out. However on a guess it is a latitude approximately along an S shaped path on a strike eastward exiting the Paranatinga river not far south of the mining community of Alta Floresta in the northern Mato Grosso. This was the formal and approved plan - the only expedition plan known - of 1924 which would have taken the Fawcett Party through the lands of the Suya (Suia) to the east. The error may not have been unintentional and the Colonel was relating in another month or longer the party would be found in the Valley of the rio Suia Missu which is on the latitude of 11degrees 43' south of the equator. From there to reach the nearby headwaters of the Tapirape river and proceed down to the planned 1924 approved exit point on the Great Araguaya river. No one will ever know with certainty. And to the absence of the bodies of Jack Fawcett, son of Colonel Fawcett and photographer Rawleigh Rimmel, a friend of Jack Fawcett, the Kalapalo told Orlando Villas Boas Jack and Raleigh tried to escape by canoe across the lake but the Kalapalo caught up with them and clubbed them to death into the water for the alligators. The keen eyed alligators would have immediately spotted the commotion and smelled the blood and within seconds arrived for the bodies of Jack and Raleigh with the Kalapalo retreating........Today January 16, 2007 I received in the mail my book Man Hunting In The Jungle by George Dyott from Horizon Books from Toronto, state of Ontario, Canada. The book is in extra fine condition with a copyright 1930 at the top of the page by George Dyott and a copyright 1929 at the bottom of the page by New York World and North American Newspaper Alliance, and publisher is the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. The cost was $47.00 plus shipping which was a bargain. The book does not come cheap. I read the book a couple of years ago but at that time was was mainly interested in any new plant medicines or any type of new medicines the Dyott party may have come across and wanted to read it again. This book has a fine page photo which had been removed from the earlier book of Captain Miranda the bandit chief and revolutionary leader who in 1926 George Dyott had saved the life of, who now called upon him early in the expedition at Corumba, Brazil in the far western Mato Grosso do sol where the Dyott party was outfitting, and where a number of years earlier an expedition led by then Major Fawcett had outfitted to travel by the community of self emancipated black slaves called Mato Grosso city where residents stayed inside evenings while wild forest indians roamed the streets and the Guapore river and tributary the Green river into the Lost World - a giant plateau in a remote area of Bolivia the plateau top itself more than 2,000 square miles area with one objective being to search out new rubber trees to ship the goma down the Guapore river to the Guajara - merins to load on the train to skip a bad stretch of river to Puerto Velho and then load back on water to Belen, Corumba, Brazil located a few miles east across the Paraguay river from Puerto Suarez, Bolivia (the photo I took viewed above at the Guajara-merin twin ports of Brazil-Bolivia in location relates to the far north east of the Brazil-Bolivia border not far from the confluence of the Guapore river with the Mamore river and Corumba-Puerto Suarez are towards the far south east border of the two nations on the Paraguay river). The formal Fawcett offered and approved expedition plan of 1924 to canoe north west up the Paranatinga river to strike east overland near Alta Floresta, Brazil to the Xingu river would ultimately have had the long term effect of no longer west moving trade from the Xingu river region being captured by the Cuyaba to Corumba to Sao Paulo route and instead valuable shipments such as gold shipments would have gone to Guajara-mirim and loaded on train there with a wire to Puerto Velho, Brazil or Manaus, Brazil for rare elsewhere in the Amazon available security almost as good as the Pinkertons to accompany the shipment down to Belem, Brazil near the Atlantic ocean. There were many pirates on the Amazon in the 1920s. A year following the Fawcett party expedition of 1925 Captain Mirandes had been in jail for a short time in Cuayaba, Brazil the Fawcett party outfitting city of 1925 before reaching the indian trading post Posto Simoes Lopes and on to Dead Horse Camp. When he called on Commander George Dyott in Corumba in 1928 Captain Miranda informed him he had heard that bandits killed the Fawcett party in order to rob them. It is interesting that the skeleton presented on the table in the photograph with Orlando Villas Boas standing behind it said to be the skeleton of Colonel Percy Fawcett contains the exact bones chief Aloique told George Dyott would be found relating many would be missing, the others having disappeared, if he showed George Dyott the location of the remains of Colonel Fawcett. It was in year 1928 chief Aloique told George Dyott this. In between the green lagoon lake to the east 10 miles from the Kalapalo village and that Kalapalo village is a natural piqui orchard that the Caribe language speaking indian brothers the Kalapalo, Kuikuro, Nahuqua depend on as one of their main sources of food and visit to harvest. There may have been Suya or Xavantes visiting the orchard also and in doing so came across the Fawcett camp on the lake with a company of Nahukua female bearers (that is the job of females in Nahukua society being an insult to men) and raided the Fawcett party for the women bearers after which the Xavantes would have touched none of the possessions of the Fawcett party but instead threw their war clubs on them which is their way. As the bodies lay on the earth returning to the earth skunks and other animals would have dragged many of the bones away. The Nahuaca or Kalapalo originally found the bones visiting the orchard and buried them along with colonel Fawcett's european make machete to take with him through the after life. No remains of Jack Fawcett or Raleigh Rimmel were found indicating a significant chance they were captured as slaves or to increase the tribe, or escaped but died in the wilderness. The story after two decades and one half by the year 1951 when the bones of Colonel Fawcett were dug up at the lake on the Tanguro river eight miles east of the Kuluene river and Kapalo village had become twisted or simply the Kalapalos were asked to say they killed the Fawcett party to more easily integrate the Xavante fierce indians whose border with the Kalapalo that lake was on. To give Brazilians the relief of knowing the Xavantes were now civilized and bring them more easily into society. That process was just beginning the year the Colonels remains were exumed at the lake. But the Kalapalo have said clearly after many tribal meetings and guarantees for protection they murdered the Fawcett party. Probably they they are telling the truth. In any case the bones exumed many miles east of the Kalapalo camp in the wild lands of the Tanguro river bordering on the Xavantes lands near the Rancador hills and mountains are a limited in completeness set of skeleton buried bones as described exactly by chief Aloique to George Dyott in 1928, to be dug up with great formal ceremony in 1951. As well as frequenting the Posto Simoes Lopes trading post apparantly the Kalapalo were also accustomed to giving their daughters in marriage to white Brazil people as three Kalapalo mothers were very interested in the Dyott party taking their daughters as wives. At the time there may have been an excess of women with most Kalapalo males only wanting the responsibility of one wife and/or the chiefs wanting no more than they presently had. George Dyott had ambivalent feelings but half the time with chief Aloique George Dyott did not carry his 38 cal Winchester with him and at one time when the weight burden in hiking to the Kalapalo camp was great on George Dyott and Aloique had a light burden Aloique for part of the hike carried George Dyott's 38 cal Winchester. Aloique liked the rifle which George Dyott could see and later he offered it to him in return for showing him the location of the remains of Colonel Fawcett which Aloique agreed to. However the main Dyott party was camped downriver with the presents for the Kalapalo and first they went dowriver for the presents with plan to return upriver but in doing that numerous less other less cordial indians of other tribes from downriver who the supply of knives would not bear began arriving. Aloique slipped out at night and went back upriver and the Dyott party had to slip out at night and make haste downriver. The Dyott party thus swept past the Suya's river the rio Suia Missu at full canoe speed never stopping at the confluence of the river with the Xingu river although Aloique had repeatedly said the Suya (Suia) killed the Fawcett party. Also after moving down river to fetch the presents of knives to take back upriver to the Kalapalo a lone Nahukua (Anahukua) indian and wife, a Nahukua prophet or one self styled, arrived downriver with his wife from some Nahukua camp unknown (or lived seperate from the greater Nahukua tribe) persistent that all indians meaning unrelated tribes should receive a knife. A box of heavy transmitter batteries was opened up and one handed to him which he let go of dropping it on his toes. Apparantly he was trying to make himself prominent that all tribes not Suya or Xavantes should have knives to protect themselves from these fierce people. Some politicing. Digging up the bones in 1932 was a matter of diplomacy and it was thought probably the larger part of the Dyott party if they did not remove could through non diplomacy impede the finding of the body of the Fawcett party remains and it would be better to send them to camp downriver. However it was a mistake as already given although if they remained upriver and were undiplomatic that would have been a mistake also. At Posto Simoes Lopes Commander Dyott was able to employ Bernardino as had the Fawcett party and found quickly the Fawcett party did not take the approved expedition route up the Paranatinga river to strike east up towards Alta Floresta but struck immediately in a north easterly direction to the headwaters of the Coliseu river leaving his Y mark (Y the letter preceeding Z being the reason for expedition to find the lost city of Z) and found the Y mark of the Fawcett party abundant all the way to and including the Xingu. At the headwaters of the Colisue river they found two canoes of Nahukua (Anahukua) which Bernardino says were taken without finding their owners who were probably visiting someone, by the Fawcett party go the 60 miles downriver to the Nahukua village on the Colisue river (often spelled with a K) about 25 miles upriver from the Coliseu river's confluence with the Kuluene river (this camp today is now the camp of the Arawak language speaking Mihinaku indians, the sexually liberated indians, and the Nahukua Caribe language speaking indians, the brothers of the Kalapalo, have moved down river to the area on the Kuluene around the confluence of the Coliseu river with the Kuluene (Upper Xingu river). At the Nahukua (Anahuhua) camp the camarada Bakairi indian Bernardino and his helper Bakairi indians left the Fawcett party returning to Posto Simoes Lopes using the canoes taken by Colonel Fawcett without permission, finding on the way up to the headwaters of the Coliseu their Nahukua owners walking down river. They were very indignant. It is likely however that Colonel fawcett paid well the chief of the Nahukua (Anahukua) and owners for the inconvenience upon arriving at the Nahuaka camp. George Dyott believed it was poor judgement on the part of Colonel Fawcett and compared the matter to a car theft which is what he would consider it were his car. As to the Dead Horse Camp incorrect survey latitude reading given by Colonel Fawcett of being 140 miles closer to the equator than was the case George Dyott thought it was either a slip of the mind-pen error or an intentional attempt to cover his trail as he sometimes did. People were in the habit of following him to be led to gold. The great wide lake with fish and ducks and a few perimeter bodies of water still part of the system is gone in today's current MSN Encarta on line quadrangle map of the area showing the spot reduced to only it's canals and no lake water. George Dyott described these canals as he called them, in some detail. On the current MSN encarta map on line the canals do not flow into a stream or river but simply begin and after so many miles end. That is the water evaporates and/or sinks into the ground without an outlet. To reiterate the lake was dry when the present MSN encarta map quadrangle on line was produced. This could be the result of a number of dry seasons. And there can be a number of other reasons. The wide lake is a short one half day's walk directly west begining at the Kalapalo village on the Kuluene river (name for the upper Xingu river if reiterating) near the Tanguro river. That is hiking from the Tanguro river-Kuluene river Kalapalo village westerly towards the Coliseu river. There is significant probability this lake was man made by the ancient native indians to provide fish and game in abundance and its inlets when the Kuluene river and other streams and rivers are high with high rain fall, have filled in. The ancient indians may have dug shallow channels now clogged with sediment into the lake from the Kuluene and other rivers and streams. Channels dug out shallow enough to not be noticable but deep enough most years to channel flood waters into the lake and dug out canals. Or they have now gone to permitting only enough water into the lake area to fill the canals for many square miles then available for raising agricultural crops. The canals would seem to have been dug by men prima faci and the lake bed a natural shallow depression, but they may as well be nature's scheme. The precise center of this wide dry at the time of the MSN Encarta quadrangle mappings (it may be full of water 2007 depending on the rains?) is exactly at latitude 12 degrees 50' south of the equator, longitude 53 degrees 05' in the east Mato Grosso in the upper Xingu. The Kalapalo were in possession of articles such as a Maltese cross Commander Dyott noted carved out of a hard stone and they were unwilling to trade them considering them precious and beyond trade. They pointed to the east - the Rancador hills and mountains the Araquaya river and the Bananal - as to where they came from. In his documentary on Colonel Percy Fawcett Josh Bernstein goes some into an ancient and very populous more advanced culture than this population reverted to in this exact general location of the wide lake and canals surrounding it. Archaeologists are just looking into it and we will learn more years into the future. Raleigh Rimmel - apparantly it was Raleigh Rimmel the Xingu indians being vague - still had difficulty walking when the Fawcett party arrived at the Xingu region according to the indians. Concerning specifically the women of the Kalapalo village on the Kuluene river as an isolate Commander George Dyott was very much astonished that the women of the villiage had much independence afforded them. He had never seen this in any other tribe and made note of it. Native indians reported in the early 1920's prior to the Fawcett party expedition of 1925 the lost city of Manos (Z, El Dorado) could be found in the central rio Suia Missu river valley at what would be approximately latitude 11 43 south of the equator longitude 52 30, in the possession of the musical Suya (Suia) indian tribe. The Suya (Suia) who wore the lip plate were the last major tribe to become known to Brazil beginning 1960 and thereafter. Before 1960 only the West Suya trader, farmer, fishing indians on the confluence of the Suia Missu river with the Xingu were known to Brazil. The Suya did not permit anyone to enter their extensive inner river valley. And no one did. It was known of to Brazil, but not known. The Suya were the North American Seminole tribe of South America. If a lost city existed in the inner Suia Missu valley and if it was built of stone,and not fine woods as King David of the Old Testament chose to build his palace with, it could still be there blending covered by the thousands of years. After finding and evaluating the lost city of Z in the rio Suia Missu valley if they found it there the Fawcett Party would have most likely exited at the confluence of the east flowing Tapirape river with the north flowing Great Araguaya river and the Fawcett party if they had not found the lost city yet would have at that point explored the 15% of the Great Bananal Island that the Araguaya river flows on the west side of, that remains dry with the heavy rains, for signs of the lost city of Z there. Peter Fleming, brother of Ian, in 1932 in party searching for the Fawcett party canoed north down the Araguaya river then going west up the rio Tapirape to it's headwaters to approximate latitude 11 00 south of the equator longitude 51 45, being only 50 miles distance from the native indian reported lost city of Manos (Z, El Dorado) in the central rio Suia Missu valley to the west. But he did not attempt to cross into the Suia Missu valley. Nor did he find the Fawcett party. The writer believes that 80 miles farther, directly north to the Kayapo indian lands in the lower Xingu and their holdings the King Solomon's Mines of the Old Testament which has made the Kayapo holders the wealthiest people on earth per capita, would be a better location for finding the lost city. It remains a belief. The 140 mile incorrect latitude gap of the Fawcett party being located 11 43 south of the equator written down by Colonel Fawcett at Dead Horse Camp far to the west of the rio Suia Missu valley early in the expedition indicates expectations that they would be heading into the Suia Missu valley and it could also indicate if denied access by the Suia (Suya) indians would be heading back westerly to the Paranatinga river following somewhere along the latitude of 11 43 exiting not far south of the community of Alta Floresta in the north Mato Grosso on a more northerly route west than the Fawcett party was taking east to reach the Xingu region from Posto Simoes Lopes in the central Mato Grosso. The analysis of the survey error and what it indicates is an educated guess, a belief. The survey error may be the result of a number of other possibilities. What is not belief in terms of these expeditions is the question that often arises were their fair people in ancient South America or did Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett have a mad spot believing so? To answer this question roll down this page a considerable distance to a particular ancient stele statue of ancient Tiwanaku the writer took a photo of and your question will be answered. Did the Fawcett party gain access from the Suya indians to their river valley? Only Suya had a right in the valley of the rio Suia Missu. Colonel Fawcett might have been able to gain access however. He was good on his banjo and played for the native primative indians. The Suya were the musical indians of song. However they probably denied him access as with their permission he would have gotten across to the Tapirape river and Peter Fleming proved he did not. Thus he attempted to recruit the cannibal Kalapalo indians upriver to get him across to the Great Araguaya river and the Great Bananal Island safely, setting up camp at the small mile wide lagoon lake on the Tanguro river about ten miles east of the Kalapalo tribe camp on the Kuluene (upper Xingu) river to do his recruiting. And the Kalapalo knowing it would mean crossing the lands of the fierce Xavantes indians and believing it would bring retribution on the Kalapalo by the Xavantes killed the Colonel to prevent any Kalapalo joining the expedition. It is an educated guess along the lines of the thinking of the great Brazil general Candido Rondon who knew more about Mato Grotto indians than anyone alive. If you want to view the bones of Colonel Fawcett, the bones of a very tall large man including the skull said to be those of Percy Harrison Fawcett Wikimedia presents a photo of them resting on an outdoor table in the early nineteen fifties with Orlando Villas Boas (the Brazil Indian agent the Kalapalo tribe presented them to) standing behind the table and bones. The skull greatly resembles the Colonel. The writer leans to the direction they are the bones of Colonel Fawcett. The writer is highly influenced by Brazil General Candido Rondon towards a political understanding of why the Kalapalo would have killed the Colonel. The Wikimedia link to access this photo of the bones of Colonel Percy Fawcett rests directly and immediately on and above the Hebrew - Phoenician maps of South America presented at the very bottom of this page you are reading. The bones of Jack Fawcett son of Colonel Fawcett and photographer Raleigh Rimmel could not be presented to Orlando Villas Boas as the Kalapalo said they chased them escaping across the lake catching them and clubbed them to death into the water leaving them to the alligators. Probably this Kalapalo account is true but a very remote possibility could exist they sold them for profit to the Xavante or Suya and they became indians. The fierce Xavantes known of became known to Brazil 1950 and the musical singing Suya known of became known to Brazil year 1960. The survey figures given above are located by using MSN Encarta Map quadrangles. Before the discovery of what lay for 5,000 years atop the hill in Calcoene in the undeveloped Amapa state of Brazil and the rio Calcoene, Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett had in the world eye an eccentric pursuit mad spot. He is ofter called the mad explorer. Currently with the 5,000 year old stone solstice computer found atop the Calcone hill in Amapa - reported in by a survey team the Brazil universities are just now looking at - all this changes. The discovery, the first on record in Brazil, and the site situated almost on the equator, creates a more brilliant light than the Calcone lighthouse on the Atlantic at latitude 01 degree 30" north of where the Calcoene river enters above the muddy discharge of the Amazon. Approximately where the Calcoene river meets the Atlantic there is significant probability at this location existed an ancient lighthouse for 3,000 B.C. British Islands mariners. The British were ancient mariners and near 90% of stone solstice computers are found on the British Islands although most were not for the use of mariners. All the way down the line in history ancient to present the British crossed the Atlantic - leaving their ancient Celtic language as the language of the native indians of the U.S. New England states. In his notes Columbus left a son which the son had published Columbus notes as a young man he had the good fortune in year 1476 to be hired on a British vessel sailing out of Bristol, England to Galway, Ireland and then on to Baffin Island, Canada and there striking south to the Bay of Fundy Canada to trade. However 10-20% of stone solstice computers - which date back to year 3,000 in the British Islands - may have earlier origin in other than the British Islands. It has not yet been determined. Past is prologue and is that the case? There are usually ancient communities located near these stone solstice computers. And it should be recalled that King David of the Old Testament chose to build his palace of the finest woods, not stone, and wood returns to dust. Colonel Percy Fawcett was aware of this also and that his pursuit might be a losing one in the short run. But as the Oxford graduate discussed with his son Brian for the sake of mankind and knowledge he would give it his best try and if his bones rotted on the floor of the Amazon in the quest for knowledge so it would turn out to be the case. When in 1932 the captain Holden party and Peter Fleming (older brother of Ian) party having been unsuccessful in their search for the Fawcett party reached by canoe downriver Belem near the mouth of the Amazon River in the Brazil state of Para had they explored the bordering state of Amapa also at the mouth of the Amazon near Belem across river, in Amapa they would have found an ancient stone Stonehenge. They would have found a nine foot high stone ancient observatory defining the day of the winter solstice located in the Brazil state of Amapa. Probably they would not have found it however as Amapa today remains one of the most undeveloped states in Brazil and in fact the nine foot high stone observatory has just been found and is being studied by a Brazil university from that state. The five thousand year old site lay out appearing specifically in design of western European origin or north African origin is situated on top of a hill at Calcoene................If you want to see the 1,000 B.C. Hebrew-Phoenician map called PE of the area Brazil state of Amapa - Brazil state of Para combined go to http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id2.html - which is in comparison to the Stonehenge on the Brazil state of Amapa hill site at Calcone of 3,000 B.C. not that old in the B.C. era. This map PE can also be found at the very bottom of this page but the reading resolution of the link just given is better. One may also go to my main page http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com and view the photo far at the bottom of the ancient Tiwanaku gate viewing in front of it just the corner of a temple dug out below ground level. It is very complex and the same exact temple is found in ancient Celtic culture of southern Germany. It is impossible to say where the original idea came from. And that in reality is also true of Stonehenge. The walls of Tiwanaku and the below ground level temple facing the main gate underwent an uplifting about 400 B.C. with beautiful metal saw cut stone. Older less beautiful supporting stone of the Tiwanaku main ground level compound was not replaced but was plated with gold. Also north of South America in Mexico before 1,000 B.C. world travelers the Olmec brought with them to Veracruz the half sister to the alphabet we use today http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id9.html . The writer is also a good amatuer archaeological historian and was first in the world to decode the olmec alphabet at it's fundamental base level to contribute to knowledge of ancient people and to national security. The writer's immediate next archeology project is the Teotihuacan ruins outside of Mexico City which he will get to in the Spring of 2007. He has been to many of the famous ruins including Palenque, Tikal, Copan and Tiwanaku which divulge much. He has been by Teotihuacan viewing it when the old passenger train used to run in Mexico. He has taken this many places including Veracruz to Tapachula to enter Guatemala. Unfortunately in Mexico City the station now presents a solemn silence with the new Wall Mart a block or two down the Avenue. How does this study of such ancient culture in the Americas contribute to the modern world? I have already said in terms of the half sister Olmec alphabet Bin Ladin can use it - do we know it? In many areas it causes us to think and not go spinning off on tangental limbs not attached to the tree. About preventing this is what Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett basically was about. He was necessary that the world progress sensibly. That is why he has lived on. There are a lot of hill tops to search now in the Amazon which approximates in square mileage the 48 U.S. states Atlantic to Pacific, Mexico to Canada. Recall King David of the Old Testament chose to build his palace of the finest woods and not stone. King Solomons mines of the Old Testament are now in the tribal lands of the Kayapo indians making the holders the richest group per capita in the world. Unlike stone wood returns to dust.) (When the writer first read MANHUNTING IN THE JUNGLE by British Naval Air Squadron Commander of WW1 George Miller Dyott, born Long Island, N.Y., who before searching for the lost Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett party in the Amazon drainage system of the northern Mato Grosso of Brazil had been commissioned to verify by duplication of expedition an entire Amazon exploration route former U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt had taken and written about the writer was reading MANHUNTING IN THE JUNGLE during years 2004 - 2005 searching for any plant medicines found by the Dyott party and not greatly interested at that time in the Colonel Percy Fawcett Expedition in the northern Mato Grosso. But the writer being a descendent more than once on his mother's side with all good geneologies of the Indian Commissioner Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck has studied intensively late 17th century Indian affairs in the colony of New York of the early United States of America. The writer's grandfather was indian commissioner for the Iroquois nation appointed by the Catholic Irish governor of New York Colony at that time, Governor Thomas Dongan, who was the real governor of all the U.S. Colonies making Dirck Wessels Ten Broeck a very influential man. A politely sharp and banal exchange of letters between Governor Thomas Dongan and King Louie the XIV of France exists with Louie asking why the Senaca Indians of the Colony of New York Iroquois nation had in the mid west raided a tribe of French christianized farmer Illonois indians taking more than 100 of the young men of the Illonois tribe and killing their parents to be raised in the western part of the Colony of New York to become Senaca soldiers and traders to the farther west, and to bring this practice to a halt. Governor Thomas Dongan replies in his letter to King Louie the XIV that it was the policy of the Colony of New York not to interfere with the Senaca Indians as it is their natural way. Louie then set the machinery in motion for King Williams War of the French and Indian wars. Montreal had a much smaller population than the U.S. Colonies but in decades to follow never had so few caused so much bloodshed to so many. Later but still in this earlier period by the time of the Irish Protestant Governor of New York Colony, Governor James Coote of an old Norman family converted King Williams War with French Canada, Montreal and Quebec had officially broken out this period still being in the late 17th century and the writer's grandfather many generations back still Indian commissioner. To reiterate the writer has read intensively around the late 17th century in New York Colony, and also Montreal matters. The Iroquois like the indians the Kalapalo of the upper Xingu the Fawcett party visited were cannibals. Yet the Iroquois were the friends of Albany, now the Capital of New York State, and the largest community of the late 17th century in northern New York State then a colony. Half the Colony of Albany military officers were Iroquois and in battle half the men under European origin captains would be of european origin and half Iroquois, and half the men under Iroquois officers would be Iroquois and half of European origin. On march with Albany the Iroquois would carry along on their shoulders any French the Iroquois in specific had killed that day untill evening when they would by agreement remove a few hundred yards from those of European origin to cook the French in their kettles. At the same time during earlier years of peace Iroquois would house sit for Dutch visiting Holland and tend to their farms while the family was away in holland. Generally if not almost always killings of people of European origin by Iroquoix were the thefts of bandit small renegade Indian groups split from the tribe, or if a tribe was involved, over trade or blocks on trade. The Iroquois did not eat people of European origin who were not the enemy or other Indians who were not the enemy. The English gaining control over Holland of the colony of New York put a stop to house sitting for a while believing there were Dutch who would make allignments with the Indians against England. Many of the Dutch in Albany have some earlier 17th century origin in Brazil in Recife through the Dutch West Indies Trading Company and the indigenous peoples and peoples of Portugal origin of that area of Brazil can be seen in some of the Albany faces today year 2007. In the mid 17the century when the Dutch of Recife in Brazil moved from Brazil some moved to Albany in the colony of New York which was Dutch in origin having been built by the Dutch West Indies Trading Company. In real life many of Brazil welcomed the Dutch in Brazil as their record on human rights was good. This can be seen later in the Colony of New York when upon the first vote given to slaves to abolish slavery more than 80% of slaves voted to remain slaves. But then in a later year more confident of the economy and politically confident voted to abolish slavery in New York Colony. There thus runs from the earlier and mid 17th century Portugese and indigenous Brazil blood in the early settlers of New York State - both of these in white and non white. It is very difficult to trace as the Dutch West Indies records were intentionally destroyed - having nothing to do with ancestry. The writer has ordered a first printing, a fine book, of title MANHUNTING IN THE JUNGLE by George Dyott to refresh on all the details if he missed any.). (to access the message sent on the Morse of immediate evacuation by reson of the Dyott party in stress, peril and suffering sent by Commander George Dyott from the Kalapalo's area of the upper Xingu river region following discovery of the fate of the Fawcett party roll down the page some distance to the first large red print (this you are reading immediately following is large orange print). The Morse message was received in Rio de Jainero and sent on to the North America Associated Press.) In what you will read following this paragraph you will not read of the expedition headed by a Captain Holman which Peter Fleming, older brother of Ian Fleming, was on whch began at Sao Paulo, Brazil traveling overland to reach and then shortly canoe north down the Araguaya River to the Tapirape River, the Tapirape an Araguaya river west tributary which flows in a north easterly direction from the Rancador mountains into the Araguaya River. If the Fawcett party by chance had adheared with success to the approved exploration plan of 1924 by water up the Paranatinga River flowing north westerly from Posto Simoes Lopes, then striking east not many miles before the Paranatinga river crosses latitude 10 00 south of the equator where the community of Alta Floresta sits, the Holman party at the confluence latitude 10 40 south of the equator of where the Tapirape River enters the Araguaya River - an area where some civilzation begins again after a long northerly flowing downriver primative stretch of the Araguaya river on the west along the great Bananal - would learn from people there of the Fawcett party if the Fawcett party made it that far as to reach the Araguaya river somewhere around where the Tapirape river entered the Araguaya river as reaching the Araguaya river was part of the approved 1924 Fawcett expedition plan beginning Cuayaba, Brazil -Posto Simoes Lopes, Brazil in the west central Mato Grosso. The Araguaya which to reiterate runs along the west side of the Great Bananal. However nothing was learned from people at the confluence of the Tapirape river and Araguaya river area about the Fawcett party. Captain Holman interpreted this to mean that the Fawcett party had met their end in the upper Xingu river 150 miles to the west which is where the Dyott party had explored in 1928. Peter Fleming was not convinced however and split off a a part of the party from Captain Holman and struck south west up the Tapirape river, a river of only minimal civilization but some civilization. In the final days Peter Fleming and a friend were alone and striking deep into the headwaters of the Tapirape River while others in the split off from Captain Holman party rested down river on the Tapirape river yet still deep in the Tapirape river system. At about latitude 11 14 south of the equator about eighty miles east of the west Suia (Suya) villiage on the Xingu river Peter Fleming and friend could continue no farther. And had learned nothing of the Fawcett party. Had they chosen to carry their canoe overland to the south west not many miles they would have been in the headwaters of the Rio Suia Missu of the Suia (Suya) indians. Brazil did not know the Suia indians who lived in the Suia Missu valley untill the Suia (Suya) made their peace with the government in 1960, although they knew of them and they knew the west branch of the Suya tribe who lived along the upper Xingu river where the Suia Missu river enters. Before 1960 people did not enter the Suia Missu river valley. The Suia river valley is also one of the locations thought to be where the lost golden city of Manos existed, two others being the Tapirape river valley and the great Bananal. Although the writer would put it if it existed in the more southerly Xingu river system to the south in the lands of the Kayapo tribes who today are the owners and protectors of the Old Testament King Solomon's mines. The Kayapo holders are in fact the wealthiest people per capita on earth today which has helped them keep uncontacted status. The writers belief is if the city existed, built of stone, the Kayapo have pulled up the surface building stone and sunk it in the rivers to protect their gold holdings. The Kayapo hold the record for Brazilian gold miners showing up on their lands - 70,000 suddenly within a week or two - to begin mining the precious metals.The Kayapo of the more southerly Xingu park are more organized partly probably because of their immense gold wealth and the miners returned home or sought other remote areas to prospect. Much of the lost city of gold is belief. However as read at the beginning of this page regarding the Calcoene state of Amapa, Brazil Stoneheng solstice set up site on a hill, of a design type of 3,000 B.C., people from across the ocean were in Brazil 5,000 years ago. From later B.C. to very early A.D. centuries Phoenician ships have been uncovered by floods in the Amazon. This 1932 expedition Peter Fleming was on was important in that it proved the Fawcett party had not carried out or successfully carried out the 1924 approved Fawcett expedition plan and had never reached the upper Tapirape river nor traveled down the Tapirape river to the Araguaya river and the Bananal which was their 1924 approved plan destination. After a period of time the now reduced Captain Holman party and the split off Fleming led party headed downriver by canoe to Belem and return passage. The Fleming party reached Belem first having outdone the now reduced Holman party twice in a row. Year 1924 the year before the Fawcett expedition disappeared in May 1925 never to be heard from again Colonel Percy Fawcett had gained an approved plan of expedition that took him NW from Posto Simoes Lopes up the Rio Paranatinga as far possibly as the then small Amazon gold mining community of Alta Floresta which sits on latitude 10 00 south of the Equator along the Paranatinga. The approved plan was to strike eastward shortly before reaching Alta Floresta to the Xingu river and continue the strike eastward to the Brazil great Bananal island and beyond. The latitude Colonel Fawcett, a Bolivia border surveyor gave at Dead Horse Camp of 11 43 south of the equator fits in much more with the approved expedition plan of 1924 to put into effect 1925. But a former party of naturalists he had earlier led up in that area remembered Dead Horse Camp was on the Rio Batovi and the guide Bernardino said it was a camp on the Batovi they camped on. And that camp, their actual location, would be 140 miles south of latitude 11 43. The Bacaeri Indian tribe Bernardino the guide belonged to are Ji language speakers as are the Suia (Suya) indians the Fawcett party upon reaching the Xingu would have to gain the permission from to continue crossing east through their lands to the Bananal. Did Colonel Fawcett know already permission would be denied and upon study of the upper Xingu indians he was reaching in a week or two planed a strike west 140 miles north to the Rio Paranatinga continuing the strike west from the Rio Paranatinga to meet up with an old exploration he had made striking north east from the Rio Guapore. This fits more with the understanding of Nina his wife as to where he would be exploring. It is the writer's hypothesis (and perhaps other's) that at the last moment Colonel Fawcett in the Spring of 1925 chose to strike east to the Kuluene river (the southerly name for the Xingu river) from a far more southerly position because of trade sensitivities felt by Cuyaba the capital of the Mato Grosso, Brazil and Sao Paulo, Brazil the end of the line on the Atlantic for value flowing east and returning west from the Xingu region and areas immediately east of the Xingu. Only the bold to the west of the Xingu had access to this value as the north, the east and the south of the Xingu were frightened to enter the greater region for what would be another twenty five years. The formally proposed and approved Fawcett expedition plan had been year 1924 to travel north west up the Paranatinga river and nearing Alta Floresta, Brazil strike east somewhere around latitude 11 plus or minus in what would have been an overland winding oxen path route to latitude 11 14 where lived on the Xingu river the west part of the Suia (Suya) Indians with their vast and wealthy rio Suia Missu river valley to the east with its headwaters only 80 miles west of the Bananal the goal of the Fawcett party expedition. To reach the Bananal access through this valley was absolutely necessary made feasible if access could be gained traveling with the Suya indians for ease of travel and to avoid clash with the fierce Xvantes indians to the south. The approved eastward strike plan from the Paranatinga river would have the eventual effect of increasing a trade corridor two hundred miles farther north of Cuayaba than the east trade corridor strike the Colonel in the end chose (near Cuayaba) which would cause Cuayaba to lose grip on value flowing east to and west from the Xingu and surrounding region. Which in turn would have presented a favorable trade position to cheap goods transported by cheap labor coming east from Bolivia and the Brazil region bordering Bolivia and value upon return reaching the Guapore river and from there increasing favorable the trade position of Lima, Peru relative to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Which unquestionably did not go unrecognized. Yet Colonel Fawcett formerly for many years a surveyor working for the Government of Bolivia entered his position at Dead Horse Camp as latitude 11 43 south of the equator which put the location of the party about150 miles north along the original Fawcett exploration year 1924 approved winding oxen path of eastward strike exploration to latitude 11 14 on the Xingu river and the villiage of the West Suya. Yet probably the guide Bernardino was telling the truth (possibly not) when he divulged a much more southerly strike corridor beginning eastward to the necessary latitude 11 14 on the Xingu. The sudden change of plan would leave with it some ambivalence felt all the way to Sao Paulo and Lima or backlashing from Sao Paulo and Lima. And perhaps this ambivalence found it's way to the Kalapalo who irrationally put the Fawcett party to death rather than rationally detaining them which was well within their power and taking them back to Posto Simoes Lopes on the basis the Fawcett party was subjecting the Kalapalo villiage to dangers from the Xavantes indians, rationally or irrationally perceived. And here we must go to the hypothesis offered by General Candido Rondon in his eighties expert in Mato Grosso indian affairs above others............Whether Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett in the Mato Grosso jungle of Brazil with son Jack and photographer Raleigh Rimmel was at latitude 13 43 south of the equator, longitude 54 35 or was 138 miles north towards the equator at latitude 11 43, longitude 54 35 when the Colonel wrote his last letter home in May of 1925 giving it to his guide to mail who would soon be leaving the Fawcett party has never been resolved. But it can be analyzed but not finalized through looking at the time frame dimensions involved in terms of each latitude just given. One is right, one is wrong and they are 138 miles away from each other. Latitude 13 43 south longitude 54 35 west puts the Fawcett party at Dead Horse Camp about a five day trek from where their guide Bernardino the Geographic Journal reported 1928 left them off at latitude 12 50 on the Coliseu river in the south Xingu on the south side of the Mehinaku indian villiage. The Mehinaku were already good friends of the Fawcett party and it would have given Raleigh Rimmel photographer some weeks to be doctored by the Mehinaku at their village to heal up his infected leg. And as the Kalapalo village where the Tanguro river enters the Kuluene river from the east is only a days walk from the Mehinaku villiage to the west so half healed mid way in their stay of one month in the Mehinaku villiage the Fawcett party may have decided to visit the Kalapalo for a day and then return to the Mehinaku villiage for two more weeks and total healing. Then in early July 1925 the Mehinaku canoed the Fawcett party down the Coliseu river to where it meets the Kuluene where is located the camp of the Nahukua indians, brothers to the Kalapalo indians and the Nahukua on the Kuluene it is known took the Fawcett party to the Kalapalo camp on the Kuluene river where the Tanguro river enters flowing west. It is known that within five days after the Fawcett party crossed the Kuluene river to be helped by the Nahukua indians they were dead at the hands of hostile indians. That was in July of 1925. However if latitude 11 43 longitude 54 35 is the latitude the Fawcett party was at when the last letter home was written in late May 1925 then the party continued on from that latitude striking east to the villiage on the Kuluene of the West Suya (Suia) indians, the greater Suya tribe who also controlled the wealthy Suia Missu river valley flowing west into the Kuluene from the Roncador mountains and hills to the east of the Kuluene river. If the Suya indians then denied the Fawcett party access to their valley and refused to take them as would then be the case even further eastward to the great Bananal island and the ancient sunken city of Z located on the island then the Fawcett party had no choice other than to trek upriver or be canoed upriver both tedious, south on the Kuluene river (Kuluene the southern name of the Xingu river) to the Nahukua indians. The more northern latitude of 11 43 south of the equator and longitude 54 35 west accounts for the Fawcett party on the move with retively few days for rest since the last letter known to have been written at Dead Horse Camp until the Fawcett party encountered the Kalapalo. And then within not many days in the month of July the Fawcett party was clubbed to death at a mile wide lagoon lake on the Tanguro river about 10 miles east of the Kalapalo camp nearing the lands of the the fierce and feared Xavantes indians. It is possible to probably the Fawcett party was recruiting at their Tanguro river lagoon lake on their own volition but without approval of the Kalapalo chief, warriors to protect and carry through the Xavantes indian lands to the Bananal. This General Candido Rondon believed might be feared by the Kalapalo would cause the Xavantes to decimate the Kalapalo tribe. Thus the Fawcett party was clubbed to death to prevent possible decimation perceived of their Kalapalo village. The bones of Colonel Fawcett were produced. The bones of son Jack Fawcett and photographer Raleigh Rimmel never were. Ther must remain a glimmer of hope that captured by the Kalapalo they were sold to the Xavantes or Suya and became indian. The writer descends many times from Dirck Wessels Ten Broeck the Colony of New York Indian Commissioner (see his father Major Wessels Ten Broeck Senior in white satin, painting master Hendricks Pots, The Guard of Saint Adrian), who married Christina Van Buren a former white slave girl and sister of the old Martin Van Buren, Ancestor of the President, and as the Colonies in the late 17th century were under charge of the Governor of New York, Dirck Wessels Ten Broeck was one of the most important men in the early U.S. Colonies with authority over the western territories in the books to the shores of Gitchigumi. Over commerce and the French of Montreal in what was not considered a fair way of splitting off the western trade to Albany to Montreal the settlers of Schenectady and Albany on their own volition conspired with non French indians many who were the Albany trade brokers to the west in the invasion of Lachine Island in that Montreal massacre which in turn led to the French Montreal reprisal at Schenectady, N.Y. in which the French upon entrance into the Schenectady fort did not carry out the original plan because of seeing the faces of the population who had shown them great mercy at an earlier time when the Mohawks had badly beaten Montreal and they the French were found by Schenectady people camped sick and dying near Balston Spa, N.Y. (Saratoga N.Y. greater area). Generally the Mohawks near Albany, N.Y. the Capital, cannibals in terms of the official enemies of Albany, would have detained any of European origen out on ventures the Mohawk decided would bring havoc on the Mohawk tribe by the French and French indians. And would request Albany to come and get them . They would not have killed them.........Was the prosaic reason for the approved Fawcett expedition plan of 1924 carried out 1925 to go north west up the Paranatinga river cutting off for an eastward strike overland to the Xingu region and beyond before reaching Alta Floresta, Brazil on the Paranatinga, was it to survey out an oxen path for trade to flow east and west, beginning western Brazil at the Guapore river - Mamore river confluence and the nearby Guajara-mirim railroad and on the east of Brazil the extremity being the great defended by water still wild Bananal island with the sunken ancient city of Z in the center of the fifteen percent of the island which made up the high part of the island that is never covered by water when the heavy rains come? With the Fawcett ideal community built at the location of the ancient city of Z. Do commercial trade potentials bring in money for expeditions for lost cities? Based on the approved 1924 Fawcett expedition the Fawcett party should have been somewhere plus or minus around latitude 10 30 - 11 30 if this is the case surveying out a winding oxen path eastward to the Xingu region to the east and from there on eastward to the great Bananal island. But on the basis of the Fawcett party good friendship made at Posto Simoes Lopes indian trading post on the headwaters of the Paranatinga river with the upper Xingu Mehinaku indians and also acquaintance with a Kalapalo indian at the Posto, the Mehinaku close and immediate neighbors of the Kalapalo, did Colonel Fawcett change his expedition plan at the final moment to strike eastward two hundred miles farther to the south so that when he arrived in the Xingu on the Coliseu river he would be at the village of his good friends the Mehinaku and he would be a day or two days walk east of the Kalapalo, the Kalapalo who were a strong tribe and who might be able to get the Fawcett party safely eastward to the Bananal better than any tribe with exception of the west Suya (Suia) permission granted by the central and east Suia of the inner Suia Missu river valley. The Geographical Journal in 1928 tells us that the camarada Bernardino guiding the Fawcett party departed from them on the immediate south side of the Mehinaku village on the Coliseu river given the latitude provided later by the Dyott expedition. But ironically the Fawcett party did not visit their good friends the Mehinaku but struck immediately and directly east which would have brought them out on the west bank of the Kuluene river across from where the Tanguro river enters the Kuluene from the east and which is the place of the village of the Kalapalo the Fawcett party later knew and who clubbed them to death at a higher small lagoon lake located on the Tanguro river about eight miles east of the Kalapalo camp on the Kuluene with this lagoon lake on the Tanguro river nearing the south border of the Suya indian land with the north Xavantes indian land. But immediately upon arrival on the west bank of the Kuluene river across from the Kalapalo village where the Tanguro river enters on the Kalapalo side of the Kuluene river the Fawcett party must have been denied access across the Kuluene by the Kalapalo and the Fawcett party moved downriver along the west bank of the Kuluene twenty miles untill the Kalapalo's brothers the Nahukua on the Kuluene where the Coliseu river enters the Kuluene accepted them and arranged a meeting for them with the Kalapalo on the Kuluene river by the enterance of the Tanguro river. Reports speak of the Fawcett party first knowing the Nahukua indians twenty miles down river. Commander George Dyott searching for the Fawcett party noticed in the hut of the friendly chief of the Nahukua tribe who was telling him about the Fawcett party that the Nahukua chief was wearing the Colonel's pants, a British metal chest was part of the hut furnishings and a child of the chief was wearing as an ornament the brass nameplate of the London Fawcett outfitter. The Fawcett party camarada Bernardino before departing led the Fawcett party directly to the south side of the good friends of the Fawcett party the Mehinaku indians on the Coliseu river and had the Fawcett party visited their village instead of continuing directly east as given in the Geographical Journal they the Mehinaku would have mourned over the Fawcett party deaths by the Fall of 1925 at Posto Simoes Lopes upon hearing of them and mourned to the Dyott party. The Fawcett party had met the Mehinaku at Posto Simoes Lopes indian trading post and at night the Colonel had played his banjo and Jack Fawcett the Piccolo in their smokey hut and it was a great success. Or was Colonel Percy Fawcett surveying and exploring in a strike eastward at the latitude he gives of 11 43 south of the equator in his last letter home, a latitude which is in accordance with the approved exploration plan developed 1924 and did he first reach the Kuluene river (the upriver name for the Xingu river) across from the west Suya (Suia) fierce but musical indians but was denied access eastward by the central and eastward Suya tribe in the Suia Missu river valley thus the Fawcett party making a necessary upriver trek on the Kuluene river banks of about 30 - 35 miles to where he met the Nahuaka brother tribe to the Kalapalo, to enlist the strong Kalapalo to take them eastward safely from the Kuluene. The Mehinaku, Suya and Xavantes must be brought more closely into this to figure it all out............The Colonel Percy Fawcett survey error made at Dead Horse Camp bringing if it were not an error the Fawcett party on strike east to the mouth of the Rio Suia Missu of the lip plate Suya singing indians east of the Kuluene river, last indians to become officially recognized in Brazil and presented by the British Geographical Journal as a survey error, is not an error. That is the British Geographical Journal and the Dyott party went through what they considered necessary and appropriate political maneuvers to make it look like camarada Bernardino led the Fawcett party to the south side of the villiage of the sexually liberated Mehinaku Arawak language speaking indians on the Coliseu river at latitude 12 50 south of the equator. But the Fawcett party in real struck due east from latitude 11 43 at Dead Horse Camp rather than striking due east on the Coliseu river at latitude 12 50 on the south side of the sexually liberated Mehinaku indians as the Geographic Journal presents which is many miles to the south of the true latitude of eastward strike and the Geographic Journal has us believe at latitude 12 50 on the Coliseu river the Fawcett party struck due east alone to the Kuluene river instead of going with the Mehinaku on a south strike down the Coliseu river to the Kuluene river to meet the Nahukua (the Nahukua the first noted indians the Fawcett party met) the carib language speaking brothers of the Kalapalo and Kuikuro indians, can be interpreted as follows if the strike at latitude 12 50 south of the equator down the Coliseu river with the Mehinaku sexually liberated indians being the case was not the case or the strike east by the Fawcett party alone at latitude 12 50 not the case but instead the Fawcett party was instead in real life reiterating at latitude 11 43 south of the equator the latitude Colonel Fawcett a former government of Bolivia border surveyor of many years gave they were at. Which was the location of Dead Horse Camp where rested the dead bones of a horse of the Colonel on an earlier expedition. Taking into consideration also the Dyott party are made to look like they traveled down the Coliseu from latitude 12 50 with the Nahukua replacing the Mehinaku sexually liberated indians and putting the Nahuaka villiage in the place of the Mehinaku villiage (what happened to the Mehinaku indians the good friends of the Fawcett party who the Fawcett party met at Posto Simoes Lopes and gave a smokey concert to in their hut with the Colonel playing the banjo and Jack the piccolo, which turned out to be a great success. The Meinaku were nearby neighbors of the Kalapalo and would have learned of the deaths of the Fawcett party quickly and mourned at Posto Simoes Lopes and to the Dyott party), the Nahuaka villiage being at the mouth of the Coliseu where it enters the Kuluene. That is, did this rather loose association with the Mehinaku sexually liberated indians lead to a later false rumor that the chief of the Kalapalo had given the Fawcett party one of his wives according to the custom of friendship - which is really peripheral to the issue as a party could get in as much trouble not accepting the wife of a chief - but the gift was not true. Or were there mix ups because both Geographical journal and George Dyott had told a white lie and Bernardino asked to tell one also given political sensitivities and camarada Bernardino actually did guide the Fawcett party to latitude 11 43 south of the equator which is the true Dead Horse Camp for the strike east to the mouth of the river Suia Missu on the Kuluene river and the location of the extreme western part of the Suya tribe but were denied access eastward up the Suia Missu valley by the inner Suia Missu valley Suya indians and the Fawcett party employed the west Suya part of the tribe located where the river Suia Missu flowing eastward from the Rancador hills and mountains meets the Kuluene river - to canoe them south up river to the closest on the north side Carib speaking tribe the Nahuakua, brothers of the Kalapalo to see if the Kalapalo would help them cross the inner Suya and Xavantes lands to the extrordinary Bananal. The motive of the Geographical Journal and the Dyott party in these white lies created to dispell any already heard rumors of a wife acceptance by the Fawcett party from the Kalapalo chief and to create any such rumor as a glance off tale from nearness to the sexually liberated Mehinaku indiand in the strike east to the Kuluene river. Is that what happened?. The probability it did is significant. Else how were such mistakes made by the Geographical Journal and the Dyott party. And latitude 12 50 south of the equator at the Coliseu river was a short cut for the Dyott party to reach as economically as possibly the location where they were certain they had already heard something of the Fawcett party and knowledge of their last presence, and rumor of a mess that might have to be cleaned up in terms of the political. That is the Kalapalo also frequented the trading post at Posto Simoes Lopes where the Dyott party rested for a time and resupplied and Colonel Fawcett in his notes mailed on home before leaving Posto Simoes Lopes on expedition mentions speaking with one of the Kalapalo at Posto Simoes Lopes........In the final assessment Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett gave his location at Dead Horse Camp at 11 43 south of the equator because that is where he was........And it does not escape the writer that although the distance was great Bolivia goods were cheap - the writer mentions on his main medical research page paying for a hotel room next to the La Paz John Kennedy airport $2.50 for a room with sophisticated oak flooring in October 2006 and a good full dinner for $.50 - and Bolivia and west Brazil labor cheap and latitude 11 43 south of the equator runs westward from the central Rancador mountains, which Brazilians to the north, east and south feared to enter with that region's indians not known to Brazil untill after 1960 with the year of the Fawcett party being 1925, westerly to reiterate to cut across the Guapore river - Mamore river confluence and the rail road beginning on the south at the Guayaramerins running north along the Brazil side of the Brazil - Bolivia border to Puerto Velho, Brazil. With cheap goods using cheap labor transported east overland with oxen to the Xingu and Rancador mountains for trade with no competition in those areas from the Brazil population north, east or south for a span of 35 years following the Fawcett party expedition, upon return transporting value from the Xingu and Rancador mountains to the Guayaramerins rail road, with very cheap raw gold from the Xingu - Roncador region in subtle and clandestine fashion so as not to depress the gold market continuing westward to the creators of jewely at Lima. And there is the fact that months before the Fawcett party arrived in the city of Cuayaba in the Mato Grosso on expedition the formal written plan was to go from Posto Simoes Lopes westerly up the Paranatinga river with a long strike east over land (looking for an oxen path?) to the Xingu beginning the eastward strike not too far south of Alta Floresta, Brazil. May we say this east strike to the Xingu region was approximately along latitude 11 43 south of the equator running to the Kuluene river (the Kuluene the name for the upper Xingu river) and we know latitude 11 43 to the east of the Kuluene river cuts through the central valley of the Suia Missu river of the Suya indians immediately north of the Xavantes indians and cuts through the Rancador hills and mountains and then farther to the east latitude 11 43 cuts through the now world famous paradise great island of the Bananal - which we will say surely Colonel Fawcett wanted a substantial parcel of for his ideal community. Concomitantly Latitude 11 43 at the far west of Brazil runs through the confluence of the Brazil-Bolivia border defining Guapore river with the Mamore river with the nearby Bolivia-Brazil Guayaramerins railroad beginning at the Guayaramerins and running north to Puerto Velho, Brazil. If the Colonel established his ideal community in the great Bananal island on the west of the Xingu and Roncadors gaining a goodly parcel from the government of Brazil then the Brazil settlers to the west would no longer have their great fear of going into the Xingu and Roncadors and in trade would be in competition with those west of the Xingu and Roncadors employing the oxen path to the Guapore river - Mamore river confluence. Anyway we know the Fawcett party met the caribe language Nahukua brother indians to the Kalapalo and Kuikuro and the Nahukua indians took the Fawcett party to the Kalapalo and at a higher lake lagoon some seven or eight miles east of the Kalapalo near the tribal border lands of the Suya and Xavantes for some reason the Kalapalo clubbed to death Colonel Fawcett whose body they were able to dig up with his european machete in front of the Brazil indian agent Orlando Boas telling Orlando Boas they had caught son Jack Fawcett and photographer Raleigh Rimmel escaping across the lagoon and clubbed them dead into the water for the alligators. The Kalapalo were not able to produce the bodies of Jack and Raleigh. Did the Kalapalo sell Jack Fawcett and Raleigh Rimmel to the Suya or Xavantes and did Jack and Raleigh live on crossing the vortex and become indians. There is just a chance. In offspring are their faces seen today among the Suya and Xavantes. The venerable General Candido Rondon, born Cuyaba, part indian himself and the most highly respected man in Brazil in year 1951, and master of Mato Grosso indian knowledge, when the Fawcett party deaths came to be known listened to none of it and offered the hypothesis that Colonel Percy Fawcett had put too much pressure on the Kalapalo to help him cross Xavantes territory the Xvantes feared by the Kalapalo as able to descimate the Kalapalo tribe. This is complex. How does one look at this? In the final, salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ: It is interesting that the much world noted incorrect latitude recorded of 11 43 south of the equator that the Fawcett party was 138 miles closer to the equator than was the case as entered by Bolivia border surveyor Percy Harrison Fawcett of his location at Dead Horse Camp happens to be the latitude striking to the east where the the Rio Suia Missu enters the Kuluene river at it's east bank, the river Suia Missu flowing out of the Roncador hills and mountains to the east of the Kuluene river. And if he had struck west at latitude 11 43 south of the equator to continue on with an earlier exploration he had made before WW1, such a strike west not formally presented around 1925 except spoken to his wife Nina and if the strike west was to be continued to some distance the Fawcett party would have come out at the confluence of the Guapore River with the Mamore river and the nearby rail road at the Guayaramerins to Puerto Velho, Brazil, Where the Rio Suia Missu enters the Kuluene at the Kuluene's east bank is the home today of the West Suya indians. The Suya Indians home was in 1925 the entire Rio Suia Missu valley mostly outside of the present Xingu national park and on the east of the park. The Suyu Indians in 1925 when Colonel Fawcett stopped at Dead Horse Camp still a long distance travel east to the Kuluene river and the Suya and Roncador hills and mountains beyond wore the lip plate and although fierce even beyond the fierceness of the Xavantes indians a major part of the life of the Suya was devoted to song. Brazil knew of the Suya but did not know the Suya untill less than fifty years ago. They were the last indians to make peace with the government of Brazil. Commonly the Chavantes (Xavantes) are thought to be. But the Xvante's immediate neighboring tribe on their northern border, the Suya tribe were in real the last tribe to make peace with the Brazil government. Later it became known the Fawcett party on the very day they were to depart into Suya lands, lost their lives. Continuing on from the Suya eastward along the incorrect latitude the Colonel entered would bring the party without traveling far to the Great Bananal Island, the great world paradise and where the Jaguars graze on the grass. The most popular park in Brazil today and world famous. Wild then. The Colonel was also searching for his ideal community he intended to build...........(I can not say that Jack Fawcett and Raleigh Rimmel were not sold by the Kalapalo to the Suya and became Suya, or Xavantes. The Kalapalo produced the bones of the Colonel and they were the Colonel's bones but not Jack or Raleigh. They may live on although probably that is not the case. I have seen over three years with my own eyes many hundreds who descend somehow and unquestionably through Butch Cassidy in the Bolivian Amazon from Santa Cruz to Guayaramerin, a few in La Paz, and none in Cochabamba. I have never been in the Xingu and have never been in the valley of the river Suia Missu or north of the river Mortes in the Xingu land just south of the Suya land. I would like to go there if sponsored. Such a trip is expensive. It will probably not happen. And there is so much hearsay I question is someone seeing something I am not seeing. I have seen. But in Bolivia not Brazil. What is the vortex they traveled through in the Rancador hills and mountains. I gave you one side of the vortex as you read down just a short ways on this page of the experience of Commander George Dyott some years after searching for the Fawcett party when George Dyott was put under house arrest by very primative indians of the Peruvian Amazon who had rescued him. He showed them photographs including photographs of Jibaro indians who looked like themselves but the photographs Jibaro or non Jibaro meant nothing more to them to his supprise than they would to a forest animal or the family dog. This was the level they comprehended them on. Yet they could hit a monkey with a dart in the air as it leaped from tree to tree and they had compassion he had family who missed him and after a while took him to civilization. Today many of that tribe are university graduates having passed through a vortex. I believed untill now Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett always unofficially worked for British Intelligence along with his formal role of Bolivian border surveyor and explorer which might have contributed to the death of the Fawcett party. I have no evidence but it may be true he did do work for British Intelligence untill he lost his life. The death of the Fawcett party however it turns out in careful retrospective analysis was not connected with intelligence gathering on the old pre WW1 German government or rising Nazi party in 1925 if there was any intelligence gathering but instead was worldly and catholic, mundane ...................If all this was politics, some of it was Brazil politics, but unlikely all, and the Fawcett party simply decided to disappear from the world, then it was among the Suya Indians where music was central to existance and through whose ancient Suya lands on the south the Fawcett party was going to strike eastward to and across upon leaving on expedition from the Kalapalo villiage on the Kuluene river. It was the Suya on the north border with the Xavantes and not the Xavantes who were actually the last known to South America and Brazil. They nearing year 2007 have been known less than fifty years. This is all very unlikely however. It approaches the impossible...................... Reading down just a few paragraphs you will encounter the message Morse sent on the Fawcett search party transmitter mid August 1927 from former WW1 British Royal Navy pilot and air squadron commander George Dyott who like Colonel Fawcett had also worked in British intelligence - Commander Dyott who had earlier authenticated the Teddy Roosevelt Amazon expedition by following in the Amazon the President's path - and was now sending from the remote upper Xingu river sustem of the Mato Grosso a message of exceptional stress stating that they had confirmed the Fawcett party was killed by hostile upper Xingu indians but were unable to retrieve the bodies due to a dispute with other Indians and they themselves had become the objects of hostility, were using a strategy to avoid the Indians, and were going to be caught if they did not abandon the upper Xingu river part of the expedition immediately. George Dyott also sent his wife a message of a brief few sentences not to worry if she did not hear for a while from him as they were having problems with glitches in their transmitter. Immediately following the final messages the transmitter was dumped to rid the Dyott party it's heavy weight burden. The message was picked up first in Rio de Jainiero.........................To access the immediate upper Xingu river area - now an Indian reservation - where the Fawcett party lost their lives - access MSN, Google or Yahoo and type in search engine MSN ENCARTA MAPS, then when you get the site type in PORTO DOS MEINACOS . The Camarada Bernardino led the Fawcett party to the spot latitude12 50 longitude 53 25 at which point they crossed the Coliseu (Kolisue, Kuliseu, Culiseu) river saying goodby to Bernardino the Fawcett party back packing and striking east to the Kuluene river, no more than a 40-45 mile or less distance depending on which branch of the Coliseu river Bernardino saw them off at (the Kulene being continuing southward the main trunk line of the Xingu river), the Kuluene to reiterate being the next river east of the Coliseu river. Another name for the Kuluene river is the Rio Alto Xingu. The Kuluene river and the Xingu river are the same river and are the main trunk line reiterating. The Coliseu is a feeder river into the Kuluene. In South America it is common on the main trunk line of a river to change it's name every so many miles. When you access (type in) on MSN Encarta Maps PORTO DOS MEINACOS you are looking at the area map quadrangle where the Fawcett party was to end their lives...................Also note looking at the Porto Dos Meinacos quadrangle Bernardino guided the Dyott party the extra thirty miles or more beyond the Coliseu river to the Kuluene river staying on the Bakairi tribal Indian line which was latitude 12 50. We know the Dyott party put their boats in the Kulueni at latitude 12 50 longitude 52 50 because they lost food in the rapids and from the Baikairi line on the Kulueni river to the Kulueni river stillwater was another 15-20 miles.It remains unknown why the Bakairi Indian Camarada Bernardino did not take the Fawcett party all the way to the Kuluene river at the edge of the Kalapalo-Kuikuro tribal lands but left them with a three day hike. Perhaps the Fawcett party wanted to look like casual explorers without a specific objective that specific objective being the Kalapalo-Kuikuro tribe. To visit the Kalapalo the Colonel had made an acquaintance of earlier at Posto Somoes Lopes. That could be one reason and the primary reason was probably that he wanted his article to be a success and make needed money. To insure this he would have to include the fishing Mehinaku tribe "the sexually liberated people". Each Xingu people were different having an unique culture, most more conservative than the Mehinaku. The location where the camarada Bernardino said goodby to the Fawcett party was exactly on the south side of the camp of the Meihinaku tribe on the Coliseu river the lands of the Meihinaku which intersect with the lands of the Tanguro Kalapalo on the Kuluene river exact same latitude eastward about fifteen miles distance. And the most incredible thing. Not many months before the Fawcett expedition began Colonel Fawcett had presented a formal expedition plan to be sponsored and funded to explore by boat going downiriver north west on the Paranatinga river (Rio Sao Manuel) and exit at the then villiage of 150 residents of Alta Floresta with the expedition passing on the water a few miles to the west of Posto Simoes Lopes to continue on north west to Alta Floresta now the beautiful paradise small city deep in the Amazon of about 40,000 to 50,000 that is also a potential great source of wealth to gold miners. Alta Floresta far deep in the Amazon is situated between Manaus, Brazil on the north, the Guayaramerin twin communities of Bolivia and Brazil on the west (at the time the rave with a hundred mile long inland railroad to Puerto Velho, Brazil, the costliest ever built in the world at the time per rail mile in both monry and human lives lost with the railroad and it's freight shipping north along a difficult stretch of river rubber (goma) one basic reason for the Colonel's commission by Bolivia beginning headquartered at Corumba, Brazil to travel to the Guapore river and Verde river, on the way passing the community of a few hundred called commonly Mato Grosso City a city of former black slaves where uncontacted Indians from the forests roamed the streets at night keeping the residents inside, and explore the Lost World (see Arthur Conan Doyle) one basic objective to find new rubber trees to produce the goma to ship down the Guapore to load on the rail road at the Guayaramerins. And Cuiaba (Cuyaba), Brazil to the south, and the Xingu river region to the east. To reiterate as it turns out Alta Floesta is not only a paradise (it is advertised today as a world tourist paradise) but wealthy in the natural precious metal gold. What is incredible and may have earned him the name "the mad explorer" is that Colonel Fawcett wanted to strike east by land after exit at Alta Floresta about two hundred and fifty miles to the north central Xingu river system. That was indeed mad. It was totally illogical and bizaar as the central Xingu could be reached by boat on an Xingu system river from Posto Simoes Lopes that river beginning and flowing a relatively few miles east of the Paranatinga river (it is the Ronuro river that begins a few miles to the north of Posto Simoes Lopes but flows in the opposite direction north easterly to the Xingu river (called the Kuluene at the point of confluence). However from what we now know such an expedition if it had taken place would have been for the Colonel a combination of business and entrepreneurial profits along with searching out a spot for his ideal community and searching for the ancient lost city. And the findings in gold mining potential might have been so excellent there would have been no time to spare to go beyond the boat travel destination of Alta Floresta. That is, it would not be worthwhile to strike east into the unknown two hundred and fifty miles by land from Alta Floresta. And ironically shortly before World War 1 broke out the Colonel (then a retired Major having had military occupation in surveying and British intelligence), now working for the Government of Bolivia as a border surveyor, on a two man private month or two time out from work exploration expedition, crossed the Guapore river from Bolivia into Brazil where the Brazil states of Mato Grosso and Rondonia meet and proceeded to strike north east with rapid movement on good indian trails many days and possible reached half way to Alta Floresta, the unknown uncontacted Indians encountered being cautious and keeping to themselves. However on this proposed expedition now seven years following the the close of world war 1 the Colonel states no desire to finish his exploration he had begun before the war to the south west of Alta Floresta in the Brazil states of Mato Grosso and Rondonia but instead wanted to strike east. He probably in the end went in the opposite direction north east to the upper Xingu to get a feature article on the last cannibals of the Mato Grosso which is an article that would have been rave of that decade and raise necessary funds. Sure money! .Had the upper Xingu expedition been a success he would have gotten to Alta Floresta and places thereabouts the following year. But his life ended abruptly in the upper Xingu and the life of son Jack and expedition photographer Raleigh Rimmel.). Wire Received by North America Associated Press August 18, 1928 from Commander George Dyott of the expedition searching for the Fawcett Party and summarized. (begin) Our location east of the Kuluene river. We are in trouble, food lost in rapids, hostile indians we avoid by strategy. Not even time to send more detail in this message. We hope to reach state of Para by early October. We successfully followed the Fawcett party trail. Some five days after they crossed the Kuluene River they met their deaths in July 1925 at the hands of hostile Indians. The Indians who accompanied the Fawcett party at that time agreed to take us to and show us their bodies. But we are blocked from that by dispute with other Indians. We have suffered much. Our supplies have dwindled. Time is critical. Tell our friends we must get out or we will be caught. (end) Following the electronics, a Morse, were disposed of as the weight was burdening. Commander George Dyott went on in years following to explore the western Amazon a thousand miles distant from the Mato Gross to the east. He once had a very real dream of encountering a raft floating down river with dead bodies on it. I think the dream signifies he had done his job in the search for the Fawcett party well. In many trips over fifteen years to Latin America places I have been I have had the equivantly same type of dream and it means I have done my job well but is a warning not to slack off. In a very primative area of the Peruvian Amazon at another time his boat capsized and his guide Sr. Munoz deserted him. Exceptionally primative Aguaruna Indians gave him lodging as a medicine man under house arrest as he had salvaged the medicine. He writes they were so primitive when he showed them photographs of Jibaro Indians that looked just like themselves they meant no more to them than they would the animals of the forest, a much different reaction than he had expected. Yet they were unbelievably outstanding hunters, and he managed to appeal to their better senses that he had a family who missed him and who he missed that they took to him to civilization. And later he got Sr. Munoz thrashed and to return the money. Also Commander George Dyott directed in the 1930s in Hollywood the movie SAVAGE GOLD around one of his expeditions in the western Amazon and in it he played himself, George Dyott.....................(The Dyott party did exit quickly from the upper Xingu river system to save themselves yet I do not know the reason why people do not trust the reporting of George Dyott. The upper Xingu Indians the Fawcett party had hired on and who were with them when they were killed probably did not know the Colonel had later been buried and Jack and Raleign dragged from the Porto Dos Meinacos green lagoon lake down to the river to be fed to the alligators which fits more nearly with modern day accounts, but in the first account of the summer of 1951 Orlando Boas did miles of extra walking eastward beyond the east bank of the Kuluene river - and that eliminates Porto Dos Meinacos (on the west bank of the Kuluene) as the place of the clubbing to death of Colonel Fawcett, Jack Fawcett and Raleigh Rimmel. Once they had increased the size of their party by hiring on Xingu Indians they ventured no doubt back and forth on the Kuluene to gather information and take photographs in what is a very very beautiful land for an article and to outfit in security the expedition to to continue to the east and had returned to the green lagoon lake when they were clubbed to death, probably sleeping, the vogue modern day version goes but is not the case - the reason they were killed being as was told to Orlando Boas the Brazil indian agent the Colonel slapped a Kalapalo-Kuikuro young male youth who had made a grab for his machette and the Fawcett party had failed to share a duck they had shot with the tribe which is probably a modern vogue reason and is not the case. One also hears that the Fawcett party was lacking in sufficient presents for the Kalapolo and that the Kalapalo told this to Orlando Boas. The Colonel could have slapped the Indian youth for grabbing at his machete. It is also heard he slapped the chief of the Kalapalo to shame him for not providing canoes and carriers. That the Colonel was putting hard pressure on the Kalapalo for helping with exploration in the feared Xvantes territory was the hypothesis of the venerable Brazil General Candido Rondon who knew more about Mato Grosso indians than any person alive and had contact with the Brazil government, and this in turn lead to the death of the Fawcett party. Getting back to George Dyott I suppose the reason people have refused to listen to George Dyott was that the Dyott party had retreated. I was just watching the movie CONTROL ROOM about Al Jazeera and Gulf War 2. And the concluding words what people like is victory. When there is victory justification is not important. Victory is important. George Dyott did achieve victory but it was chipped. The Dyott party had the alternative of exiting west through more than forty miles of rain forest with the Kalapalo in pursuit untill they reached the line of the Bakairi Indian tribe and then hired a militia to return to the upper Xingu, but that would have brought three nights of darkness in an already dark rain forest. I watched the documentary by Josh Bernstein of a drug the Indians of South America can use to see in blackness. The decision by George Dyott to stay with the river route was probably the correct decision as it was less dark and Commander Dyott was schooled in Naval tactics. This hastily written message by George Dyott before the electronic gear was abandoned by the Commander is new to the writer. Commander Dyott had seen combat in WW 1 and is no one who would scare easily. There is to a loose degree the question of language barrier and sign. However this Dyott message is a powerful message. Even more powerfull or equally powerful are the direct words of the Kalapalo-Kuikuro to world respected Orlando Boas, champion of the Mato Grosso Indians and who knew their language well, that they had killed the Fawcett party at the green lagoon. Orlando Boaz went to his death at very old age never doubting what the Kalapalo-Kuikuro had told him. However the present Kalapalo-Kuikuro tribe of the upper Xingu near the south border of the present Xingu Indian reservation on the Kuluene river (also called the Rio Alto Xingu) remember the Fawcett party as friends and remember they had left their camp after not too many days as the tribe had gone to visit them and the camp was empty. And the Dyott report states it was five days after they crossed the Kuluene (from the west to the east side) that the Fawcett party met their death. The Kuikuro Kalapalo group of today who related the story to Josh Bernstein in his visit to their camp may have made their venture to visit the Fawcett party at their camp after the Fawcett party had hired local Indians and had already crossed the Kuluene leaving their camp in doing so. It does sound a reality. But it is not true, or is not the final truth. It remains complex. However both reports, the reports of Commander Dyott and Orlando Boas, carry a great deal of efficacy and so do the words of the venerable General Candido Rondon who we shall reading down hear about.). The old General Candido Rondon in 1951 when the story of the admitted murder of Fawcett by the Kalapalo Indians broke, knowing more about the Mato Grosso indians than anyone alive, believed it may have been fear of the fierce said to number as high as 15,000 Chavantes (Xvantes Indians numbering in real maybe 2,000) some 4 to 5 days and less to the east of the Kalapalo villiage on the Kuluene river, and the Xavantes being at their longitude north of the Rio Das Mortes just east of the Kalapalo , who the Kalapalo feared greatly in 1925 (and also all Brazil of European origin people near to the Xavantes and mixed feared equally as greatly in the year 1951, although the year 1950 was the beginning of fruitful peace overtures to the Xavante the Kalapalo-Kuikuro's neighbors immediately to the east a few days journey) that the General thought caused the Kalapalo to kill the Fawcett party. The General hypothesized Colonel Fawcett was putting pressure on the Kalapalo to accompany the Fawcett party to the land of the Chavantes a few days strike to the east of the Kuluene. The old General ignored the reasons given by the Kalapalo for killing the Fawcett party - at least he ignored any vogue reason if there were any vogue reasons that emerged in 1951 and probably there were right from the beginning with the Brazil government at Rio De Jainiero having to take some of the blame as the fate of the Fawcett party was a very sensitive issue. However the thoughts of the General were far away from any vogue reasons the Kalapalo had told Orlando Boas was the reason for the clubbing to death. That is, in the General's thinking, the General looking into the heads of the Kalapalo, Colonel Fawcett was that in Kalapalo eyes willing to bring about massive Kalapalo tribal death at the hands of the Chavantes (Xvantes) Indians. The Kalapalo felt compelled to accompany Colonel Fawcett days east to the lands of the Chavantes but knew it could with significant probability cause a tribal calamnity in a war beginning between Kalapalo and Xavantes. Thus they the Kalapalo had clubbed to death the Fawcett party for the best interests of the Kalapalo-Kuikuro tribe. To reiterate the old Generals thinking was far away from vogue reasons reported if any as given by the Kalapalo council for the killings. There is also a discrepency in the report of the Kalapalo council the council stating they had killed the Colonel on land and then caught Jack and Raleigh in a boat escaping on the lake and simply clubbed them to death into the lake for the alligators to eat. Commander Dyott in his emergency stress message gives that the Indians who accompanied the Fawcett party were willing to show him the bodies (in the plural - all the bodies) of the Fawcett party where they lay in the jungle but other Indians impeded this. And while Porto Dos Meinacos on the east side of the Kuluene river may have been the green lagoon lake where the Fawcett party first met the Kalapalo the Fawcett party subsequently crossed east on the Kuluene and met their death five days later elsewhere according to Commander George Dyott. The Kalapalo council held at the green lagoon after many earlier deliberation were held announced they killed Colonel Percy Fawcett with Orlando Boas attending the formal gathering of the warriors. The location of this gathering was at the shore of the large high lake four hours south east of the Tanguro Kalapalo villiage on the Kuluene river or the small lake directly behind the Tanguro Kalapalo villiage (or at the same large lake which was directly behind another Kalapalo villiage to the north on the Kuluene river - there is no way given to know which lake for certain). There the bones of a tall man were dug up with a skull and the other bones with a few good intact teeth and a machete of European make. Jack and Raleigh had gone into alligators stomachs Orlando Boas was at that time told. The Kalapalo council mentioned nothing about other Indians working for the Fawcett party who did accompany them miles inland east to the lake from the Kuluene river and what happened to them although if these were Kalapalo who were going into Chavantes territory employed by the Fawcett party the wives of these men being employed by the Fawcett party may have complained to the chief to kill the Fawcett party or their husbands would be killed and the mothers their sons. This scenario specifically was not said by General Rondon but it fits into his theory none the less. At some point (at one of the high lakes to the east nearing the Xavantes territorial line in the Fawcett party preparation at one of the high lakes for the strike east into the Chavantes territory the Kalapalo chief ordered the Fawcett party killed leaving the Kalapalo hired by the Fawcett party unharmed and to return to their wives and sons their mothers and fathers if this is the case. In terms of the Chavantes Indians reiterating it is very interesting that all near them feared them and all Brazil vicariously and that the first fruitful overture to bring peace did not occur untill 1950 the year before the Kalapalo in 1951informed Orlando Boas they had killed the Fawcett party. Although their varacity is at this point in time chipped as the Fawcett party was retreating and chipped also as the Kalapalo said Jack and Raleigh were thrown to the alligators whereas twenty six years earlier Indians who were with the Fawcett party told George Dyott their bodies in the plural (all three) lay in the jungle and they could show him them. Also the Kalapalo council at the high lake stating that the Kalapalo killed the Fawcett party in a stage of dramatics had Orlando Boas positioned standing on the grave he being unaware the body was under him. Untill the official digging. It was dramatics planned by the Kalapalo council. (In the Summer of 1951 how Orlando Boas originally described that day he was told of the Fawcett party killings described in the paragraph above is the Kalapalo came for him early in the morning at his residential camp four hours walk west of the Kuluene river which would put his camp probably somewhere on the border of the Kalapalo Tribal lands with the Meihinaku Tribal lands. They walked four hours east to the Kuluene river and crossed it. Then they took more hours to continue walking eastward to a lake. And is that lake the small lake located eight miles to the east into the rain forest on the Tanguro river which empties into the Kuluene by the Tanguro Kalapalo Kuikuro villiage? Or is it the bigger lake to the north, east into the rain forest eight miles, of another Kalapalo villiage? Another ten miles or less to the east of both lakes is the Serra do Rancador hills or mountains, tribal lands of the fierce and feared by all Xavantes Indians. Orlando Boas only mentions simply crossing the Kuluene and striking east to the lake in question and to reiterate to the east some hours more walk. We can not leave out the larger lake at the same longitude in the immediate vicinity of a second more northerly Kalapalo camp not many miles north of the Tanguro Kalapalo. However which is moot. Thus at that small lake (or the larger lake) the Kalapalo with council present formally announced they killed the Fawcett party and that the lake they were making the announcement at was the lake they killed him at. There is no question this small lake or larger lake to the north, one or the other as there are only two lakes, are the correct lakes. And from these lakes another ten miles or less travel continuing to the east brings travelers well into Xavantes territorial lands.). And clarify the Kalapalo had always said to Orlando Boas they knew the Fawcett party but other Indians had killed them. However now 1951 they were admitting to the murders themselves with much council planned and formally staged dramatics in a two hour long speech. It was in part political. It is interesting that the camarada Bernardino said goodby to the Fawcett party at the south edge of the Mehinaku tribe (known as The Sexually Liberated Indians) villiage on the Coleseu river. All Xingu tribes are different in their culture. The Mehinaku a fishing people however have their culture boundaries and when a woman exceeds the very liberal cultural values by tribal court for a short period of time any man and all men of the tribe have free sexual rights to her. It is a disgracing practice - much more kind than the practice of North American Indians to judgement of the woman to be a for pay prostitute sometimes for the duration of her life. No doubt the Fawcett party got photographs and interviews with the Mehinaku for the article on the expedition findings and such very suited to the roaring 20's. The Mehinaku are only 25-30 miles directly due west or less at the same latitude from the more conservative Kalapalo or Tanguro Kalapalo. Their lands intersect. Had the Colonel hired on and brough Mehinaku with him to the Kuluene their women included, and one of the Mehinaku women had been recently by tribal court disgraced, this could have caused the women of the Kalapalo to become upset (as the Kalapalo women would all know such Mehinaku gossup) and it would further upset the Kalapalo women even much more so (go back to the generalized General Rondon theory) if the Fawcett party then began recruiting their husbands and sons to accompany the party on an exploration strike east five days towards the Rancador hills or mountains and the extremely dangerous Chavantes (Xvantes)Indians. And in fact it may be the reason the Kalapalo hung on to cannibalism into the 20th century was to strike fear into the hearts of their ever terrifying always potential enemy the Chavantes. And it is so interesting this Kalapalo admission with all the conviening of the tribe in council and the planned dramatics and effects took place 1951 just one year following the first at least potentially fruitful peace feeler with the Chavantes and all of Brazil people's hope year 1950 in the nations newspapers that the terrifying fear felt of the Chavantes would come to be a thing of the past. Certainly it did help the peace effort to take the burden of the killing of the Fawcett party off of the Chavantes as being those who killed them. And certainly the Chavantes would have gotten any wind of all of this and may retain it in their oral history. However the Chavantes both year 1925 and 1950 were a people who did not frequent European origin people's trading posts - as the Kalapalo did. Thus the Chavantes oral history rememberances may seem prima faci somewhat out of tune with other indian tribes. But the Chavantes have been left out in the search for Colonel Percy Fawcett. Yet the Chavantes are so important in terms of what they know and have heard and remember as they remember it - alone based on the hypothesis offered by the venerable old General and the greatest of the master's of Indian affairs of the Mato Grosso, General Candido Rondon - who immediately ignored the vogue reasons the Kalapalo were said to give for killing the Fawcett party as they were no reason the Kalapalo would kill the party and offered a hypothesis he believed made sense in the deaths of the Fawcett party. The Chavantes must be brought into the search. It can proceed no farther logically otherwise. As must the Suyu be brought in as the chief Aloique of the Nahukua tribe who assisted the Fawcett party said it was the Suya who killed the Fawcett party. (What the Kalapalo or Tanguro Kalapalos said at the earliest time to Orlando Boas is that in friendship the chief had following the Kalapalo custom given one of his wives to the Fawcett party and at some time following the Colonel as was his natural way in slapping those of both European origin and Indians had slapped the chief over refusal to provide the needed carriers and canoes for the Fawcett expedition to continue. Orlando Boas already knew the Kalapalo had killed the Fawcett party and the true reason some time before the day he stood over the grave of Colonel Fawcett not knowing where he was standing and listed to the two hour long speech of the council which ended announcing he was standing over the Colonel's body......this then was the basis for the thinking of the most honored man in Brazil in the year 1951, General Candido Rondon, that the Kalapalo had the best interests of the tribe in mind in maintaing peace with the fierce Xavantes as the Fawcett party was heading east through the lands of that tribe not that many miles distant in the Sera don Roncador region - and east of the Sera don Rancador is the world paradise great island the Bananal, wild then, the most popular park in Brazil today where it is probable the Colonel wanted to explore as location for his ideal community. The chief of the Kalapalo tribe at the council on the lake said to Orlando Boas he was aware Orlando had been hearing for some time the Kalapalo killed the Fawcett party and now he was making it official in 1951and in return for protection against retaliation to the tribe. When the Fawcett party first arrived at the Kuluene river it was across from the Nahukua tribe, neighbors not many miles downstream to the north on the Kuluene river from the Tanguro Kalapalo. And as the Nahukua live on the Kuluene where the Coliseu river empties this means the Fawcett party did not continue striking east after the camarada Bernardino said goodby farther south on the Coliseu but instead employed the Mehinaku on the Coliseu to take them by canoe down to the Kuluene where there first contact upon reaching where the Coliseu river meets the Kuluene river was the Nahukua (and this was true in real of the Dyott Party which traveled down the Coliseu also, which is where they lost food in the rapids). And just a mile or two south upriver on the Kuluene river on the east bank lives one village of the Kalapalo not many miles to the north on the Kuluene river from the Tanguro Kalapalo who live on the Kuluene river next to the point where the Tanguro river enters the Kuluene. Behind the Kalapalo village on the north (to the east of the village) is the big lake of some seven miles length and two miles wide. Behind the more southerly Kalapalo villiage (to the east of the village also) is the small lake not much more than a mile long and a mile wide. As to which lake the Kalapalo held their council on announcing they had killed the Fawcett party is in truth moot. It defines best where Orlando Boas had his camp at the time he was invited to the Kalapalo council to have it confirmed the Fawcett party had met their deaths at the hands of the Kalapalo. And he does not give us the exact location. If he had we could define which lake. The day the Kalapalo announced they had killed the Fawcett party was a day the the Brazil government was very pleased with as peace with the Xavantes the Seminole Indians of South America was a priority and it gained Orlando Boas much favor. The Nahukua had brought the Fawcett party to the Tanguro Kalapalo or more nearby Kalapalo villiage and the Nahukua knew in detail the killings five days later of the Fawcett party. The Indians had in their posession several of the Colonel's possession and the chief of the Nahukua, Aloique, was wearing the Colonel's pants, one of his childred had for an ornament a brass name plate with the name of the British outfitter of Colonel Fawcett and there was a metal British made trunk in his lodge, which caused Commander Dyott to regard him as prime suspect. However the Fawcett party killings turned out to be none of his doing. All of the initial contact of the Fawcett party meeting the Kalapalo was done in the most perfect of eitiquette in terms of the social situation in Kalapalo generosity of culture (providing a wife), and the accepted culture of Amazon explorers (accepting her) also. If it happened? And it is more likely it did as did not. The chief of the Kalapalo did not understand the way of the Colonel who managed to carry on in friendship usually after he had slapped someone in his drive to push on. This time it did not work out. The old General Candido Rondon who knew the Indians better than anyone, the most venerated person in Brazil at that time and part Indian himself, was keen to size up what had happened. To reiterate to help verify this scenario the Xavantes need to be brought into this to know what they have in their oral history if anything. If their oral history should should support the Kalapalo council of summer 1951 then a grave marker to the Colonel, son Jack and expedition photographer Raleigh Rimmel needs to be placed on the small isolated lake on the shore of the Tanguro river eight miles east of the Tanguro Kalapalo village on the Kuluene or on the shore of the larger lake at the same longitude a few miles to the north by another Kalapalo villiage. Surely the Kalapalo can not deny this. At the same time it has to be kept in mind at least loosely that Colonel Fawcett, son Jack Fawcett and photographer Raleign Rimmel met their deaths only a few miles from the fierce Xavantes territorial line to the east. They were clubbed to death in the rain forest a number of miles east of the bank of the river Kuluene. And the Kayapo process of the council announcing they had clubbed the Fawcett party to death was screamingly political. And the government of Brazil was pleased with Orlando Boas and would be glad to solve the case so it not be one more obstacle remaining in the way of making peace with the Xavantes (Chavantes) Indians. Despite all of this the Kalapalo clubbed the the Fawcett party to death most likely. For certainty it was not the body of a chief they dug up as the Kalapalo bury their dead in the center of their villiage plaza. It comes down to the Kalapalo, or Suya or Xavantes, and ninety five percent chance it was the Kalapalo. The Suyu (the musical indians) are Je language group people and are no blood relation to the Kalapalo-Nahuaka-Tupei-Kuikuro people who are Karib speaking first cousins living in close proximity to each other on far upper Xingu park and who join together to participate in the same sacrid cerimonies. The greater percentage of Suya are more recent to the Xingu their home land beginning on the Rio Suia-Missu valley in the east Xingu park where the Rio Suia-Missu enters the Kuluene river the Suia-Missu river system to the east running westerly to the Xingu from its origin - with feeder rivers into the Rio Suia-Missu that originate in the Roncador hills and mountains just to the east of the Kalapalo- Nauhauka-Tupei-Kuikuro carib language speaking blood related Indians. And the feeder rivers to the Rio Suia-missu are just north of the Xavantes (Chavantes Indians). The Suya to reiterate are musically inclined Indians music being a central part of their tribal life. The Suya lands outside of the Xingu park boundaries are closer to the Kalapalo village where the Coliseu river empties into the Kuluene, and the Xavantes indians nearer to the farther south on the Kuluene river Kalapalo village which is located where the Tanguro river empties from the east. The chief Aloique of the Nauhuaka tribe said the Suya killed the Fawcett party, and it is known the Fawcett party was about to strike east through the boundary of Xavantes lands on the south and Suya on the north to probably the Bananal. And with all final salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Weeks before or weeks after the visit at the Kalapalo camp the Fawcett party was exploring on the other side of the Mato Grosso............................Colonel Percy Fawcett had chose the route of exploration he originally discussed with his wife Nina who continued to believe it was the route he had taken the Guajaramerins as seen here in this photo I took would have been the likely exit point if he chose not to return to Cuiaba, Brazil where the expedition had begun from. Crossing from Bolivia on the Guapore river to Brazil he had earlier explored a part of the primative Brazil Amazon on the east side of the Guapore containing many uncontacted people as it still does today. And the Guapore River a day's walk east of Guayaramerin being a major Amazon tiibutary to the south flowing north out of the Mato Grosso is a low malaria infection area which would have been important to the Colonel in terms of residents of his ideal community he wished to build. And to reiterate even today year 2007 the area on the east side of the Guapore river has uncontacted people. In addition the Colonel was familiar with the area in his many earlier years in Bolivia as a border surveyor, then Major Percy Fawcett. My opinion is Colonel Fawcett would have crosses back west from the upper Xingu Kalapalo-Kuikuro tribal lands to the Guapore river where he would establish his ideal community he was searching for on the Brazil side. However I do not believe that opportunity was provided. I know Josh Bernstein in his documentary accepted the word of the Kalapalo-Kikuro that the Fawcett party continued on their way after camping about a week in their tribal area. I watched the documentary. And if his drop of supplies carried by pack mules to a known general area some forty miles west of the Kalapalo lands, the specific drop and stash area unknown, was sufficient, the party could have been in a position to turn back west to the Guapore without resupplying at Posto Somoes Lopez but traveling by it on the way to the Guapore first to the Dead Horse Camp and nearby this camping area the main drop by pack mules of supplies, in a westerly direction many miles to the north of the Simoes Lopes indian trading post. They would have ample supplies to reach the Guapore. I do not entertain the notion although I could as well be wrong that in the end the Colonel would have founded his ideal community hundreds of miles from Bolivia a country which he knew so well and where he had friends and was highly respected. He did have Brazil friends and was highly respected in Brazil also, but along and relatively near the Bolivia-Brazil border. If the party after a brief week long look at the Kalapalo-Kuikuro did turn west from the Kalapalo's upper Xingu region and reach the Guapore which defines the Brazil-Bolivia border rather than returning to Cuiaba, Brazil then there existed the problem that Guapore river floods had caused over the years new channels to emerge and what was Bolivia was now Brazil and what had been Brazil was now Bolivia. The Colonel being a Bolivia border surveyor knew all the relevant information, and that Guapore river area northeast of Guayaramerin on the Bolivia side was a killing field down to the and including latter half of the twentieth century made so by peoples desire for land (see the movie FIRE ON THE AMAZON starring Sandra Bullock, Craig Scheffer, Judith Chapman, Juan Fernandes, George Garcia Bustamente, Ramsay Ross, Lourdes Mindreau and a cast of many others filmed in the Amazon and which is about this Bolivia Amazon state of Beni area on it's far eastern side - today nearing year 2007 no uncontacted people exist on the Bolivia side of the Guapore river valley which is not the case immediately across river in the Brazil part of the Guapore valley. Most of the killing along the Guapore took place on the Bolivia side). The Fawcett party could have for this reason been murdered by Bolivians on the possibility the Colonel might not remain quiet. This of course is a hypothesis that has only a small percentage chance of being the case. However I believe the Fawcett party ended their lives in Kalapalo-Kuikuro land at the green lagoon lake called Puerto Dos Minacos killed by the Kalapalo-Kuikuro, the party being suspected of being in the slave trading business, an illegal enterprise that flourished in that area at that time. And then there is what the Kalapalo told Orland Boaz world respected champion of the rights of Mato Grosso indians that they had kill the Colonel, Jack and Raleigh Rimmel in the green lagoon for reasons representing differences in culture. The decision of Colonel Fawcett to seek primative adventure among the remaining cannibals in the Xingu river region to the north east of Posto Simoes Lopes was I believe fatal. And I explain why reading down. (To read more about Guayaramerin go to http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id12.html ). Yet people remembered seeing Colonel Percy Facwett at a far away from the Xingu location to the north west of Posto Simoes Lopes. However I believe by a very short time span this spotting of the Fawcett party to the north west of Posto Simoes Lopes preceeded the exploration of the upper Xingu river region. And dissecting the time frame from inital arrival from Cuiaba, Brazil in the Mato Grosso on the south to Posto Somoes Lopes on the north there was not time to do intensive nor expansive exploration of that north west area of the Mato Grosso. Thus it is probable the party exited the north west exploration prematurely - for the time being at least as it could have been a probe for a north west exploration of some dimension to follow in a matter of a few months - to return for the time being to Posto Simoes Lopes, and go on to explore to the northeast of Posto Simoes Lopes the Kalapalo-Kuikuro tribal cannibal area of the Xingu. Certainly an article following in the geographical magazines of the last of the cannibals of the Mato Grosso, the Kalapalo-Kuikuro cannibals would have culminated the rave of that decade. In terms of the filming on location Suarez Island in the background of the photo is where social worker Lisa Rothman (Sandra Bullock) in her famous movie FIRE ON THE AMAZON is put aboard a float plane after being shot illegally by the Bolivia policia and dies in less than a minute after being put in the plane. Colonel Fawcett was aware the expedition might never exit from the Amazon wilds. Before leaving for South America he told his son Brian if his bones should rot in the Amazon rain forests world history would be the better for the contributions he had made there over a span of twenty years in the study of South American history beginning with the ancient Asian, African and European colinization in times before Christ, and times since including the 1925 expedition. Past is prologue. For authentic Hebrew-Phoenician maps of the entire 24,000 mile globe go http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id2.html and to1,000 B.C. Olmec authentic world maps http://www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com/id9.html. Both sites contain authentic 1,000 B.C. maps of South America) THE COLONEL PERCY H. FAWCETT EXPEDITION WAS CLUBBED TO DEATH IN 1925 AT THE LAKE RIVER PORT OF PORTO DOS MEINACOS ON INDIAN LANDS OF THE KULUENE RIVER. PORTO DOS MINACOS WEATHER STATION, LOCATED AT THE SCENE OF THE CLUBBING, IS VERY REMOTE IN NORTH EAST MATO GROSSO. A LARGE "GREEN LAGOON" BY NATURE IT IS SET BACK IN A FEW MILES WEST FROM THE WEST BANK OF THE KULUENE RIVER AND PORTO DOS MEINACOS IS WHERE THE KALAPALO-KUIKURO TOLD WORLD FAMOUS AMAZON INDIAN ADVOCATE ORLANDO BOAS THEY HAD CLUBBED TO DEATH THE COLONEL PERCY FAWCETT PARTY. WATER IN THIS LARGE GREEN COLORED LAGOON LAKE CAN NO LONGER BE SEEN IN THE MOST RECENT SATELLITE IMAGING YEAR 2006 OF PORTO DOS MINACOS. ONE REASON COULD BE DROUGHT. THAT IS, THE KULUENE RIVER IN THE PAST FEW YEARS HAS NOT RISEN HIGH ENOUGH FOR IT'S FLOOD WATER BACKWASH TO FILL THE LAGOON LAKE AND BEING THE UNFORTUNATE SITUATION THE LAKE IS LACKING FILLER STREAMS OF IT'S OWN THE WATER IN THIS GREEN COLORED LAGOON LAKE HAS EVAPORATED LEAVING THERE NOW NOTHING BUT THE WEATHER STATION AND A FEW SCATTERED KALAPALO-KUIKURO RESIDENTS. THERE IS NOW A REMOTE WEATHER STATION AT PORTO DOS MEINACOS. TRAVELERS BOATING UP OR DOWN THE KULUENE RIVER WOULD PROBABLY MISS THE GREEN COLORED LAGOON LAKE GIVEN THE REASON TO REITERATE IT SETS BACK IN A FEW MILES WEST OF THE KULUNE RIVER WEST BANK - THE KULUNE RIVER BEING THE PRINCIPLE WATER CARRYING RIVER OF THE XINGU, A SOUTHERN TRIBUTARY OF THE WORLD'S SECOND LONGEST RIVER THE AMAZON FOLLOWING THE NILE. THE OTHER POSSIBLE REASON SATELLITE IMAGING SHOWS NO WATER IN THE LAKE LAGOON IS IT HAS BEEN DRAINED BY MAN. IT IS BONE DRY YEAR 2006. THE OLDER MSN ENCARTA ATLAS MAPS SHOW A LAKE OF WATER OF TWO MILES DIAMETER AT PORTO DOS MEINACOS:...Porto Dos Minacos weather station is situated on a Kuluene river inlet lagoon lake of two miles diameter formed when the waters of the Kuluene river of the upper Xingu river system are high. It has no feeder streams to fill it but it's existence is entirely dependent on the yearly rainy seasons to bring the river water levels up and the backwash to fill it. Else it will evaporate. It is likely the "green lagoon" where the Colonel Percy Fawcett expedition met death. The problem was twofold in 1925. The Colonel had slapped a Kalapalo-Kuikuro youth who lay his hands on the Colonel's machete without invitation and also the Fawcett party had refused to share a duck they had shot with Kalapalo-Kuikuro. They clubbed the Fawcett party to death for these two reasons. Many years later they dug up the Colonel's remains and handed them over for examination. At the time, year 1925, the Fawcett expedition met their death they were camped in the "green lagoon"according to the Kalapalo-Kuikuro. The only green lagoon in the area that stands out on the map is remote Mato Grosso weather station Puerto Dos Minacos on the Kuluene river, a river fed lagoon lake to reiterate set back in a few miles from the river itself. British Royal Air Force Squadron Commander George Dyott who led the search for the Fawcett party 1928, and who had already been commissioned to trace the Teddy Rooselvet Amazon exploration expedition to determine the correctness of it's report an assignment he had already fulfilled, wrote that Indians related the Fawcett party was seen for a while on a lake east of the Coliseu river, east of the Kuliseu river spot where camarada Bernardino, helpers Simoes and Gardinia unpacked the supplies, gifts and trade goods of the Fawcett party and headed the mules back to Posto Simoes Lopes. This location where they turned and headed back being approximately latitude 12 50 south longitude 53 25 west. From this location the Fawcett party crossed the Coliseu river and struck east to the Kuluene river another 40 - 50 miles distance and to Puerto Dos Minacos with Puerto Dos Minacos being the only lake of any size situated in the general area of Fawcett party movement before reaching the Kuluene river itself. Which fits what Commander George Dyott also gives in the report of the search for the Fawcett party concerning the size of the lake.. LORD OF THE RINGS:.....Did Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett enter into a world beyond the world we know at his own will. Not the case as he had the ideal community to build for his wife Nina and he had not yet built it. But perhaps later he did build it. THE ANCIENT KING SOLOMON'S MINES:....The remote far south of the Brazilian Amazon basin state of Para bordering with the remote north eastern Amazon basin part of the Mato Grosso. THE PRESENTING PROBLEM:......Former Bolivia border surveyor Colonel Percy Fawcett in the latitude survey figure of his immediate location at Dead Horse Camp he gave in a letter to his guide returning to Posto Simoes Lopes to mail to his wife Nina Fawcett was 138 miles closer to the equator than his actual position of location. Probably, 80% likely, the purpose of the incorrect latitude was to not frighten his wife Nina Fawcett at home that he was going to do a feature article on the last of the cannibals inhabiting the upper Xingu region of Mato Grosso. It would be a big selling world article in 1926-27 and would mean a book commission. She would quickly put it together seeing accurate survey figures. However there are a number of other possible reasons for the incorrect figure at the significant level. Thus onward to decipher more fully the reason for this error and presenting problem the objective. THE PERPLEXING LOST CITY OF Z.....The lost city of Z the Fawcett party was searching for may in addition represent a generalized map of the route of the exploration. With the lower western extreme south point of the letter Z map being the Mato Grosso city of Cuiaba (Cuyaba) where the Fawcett party rested and outfitted having traveled west overland to Cuiba from due east beginning Rio de Janeiro. Then from Cuiaba the Fawcett party traveled north north east to Posto Simoes Lopes in the Bakairi Indian Reservation for final outfitting. Posto Simoes Lopes would be the absolute center of the map letter Z. Then from Posto Simoes Lopes the Fawcett party continued traveling north north east to the eleventh parallel and the land of the Kayapo where the wealthy gold mines are found today this location being the top eastern extremity of the map letter Z. Having defined the gold mines in the lands of the Kayapo tribe the Fawcett Party then planned to travel due west along the eleventh parallel leaving the Mato Grosso and crossing into and across the Brazil state of Rondonia continuing westward remaining on the eleventh parrallel to the confluence of the Guapore river with the Mamore river and to Guajara-mirim, Brazil with its twin community across river Grajaramerin, Bolivia and on to Riberalta the sister community of Guayaramerin in the Bolivia state of Beni, the sister community of Guajaramerin. Riberalta the western extremity of the top of the letter map Z, Riberalta which sits on the eleventh parallel the same as the Kayapo lands and the wealthy gold mines to the east in the Mato Grosso was thus the termination of the Fawcett party exploration route of map letter Z. Colonel Fawcett knew Riberalta well and there he would meet a lot of old friends. At Guajaramirim-Guaharamerin he would find out how much raw rubber from the western Mato Grosso, and across river Lost World of Bolivia he earlier explored commissioned by Bolivia for rubber tree assets when he was a Major before WW1 was being loaded on the train at Guajara-mirim to Puerto Velho, Brazil. He would see the fruits of his earlier survey explorations. The exploration route was completed and now had come the time with the wealthy gold mines located to travel either up the Guapore rivers to Mato Grosso City (Vila Bella de Santissima) then overland to Corumba, Brazil in the Pantanal on the Paraguay river or overland to Trinidad, Bolivia on to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, then to Corumba, Brazil, and from Corumba travel westward to explore the paradise Bananal island which is likely the location of the ideal community he conceived of (as the Bananal is paradise where the Jaguars graze on the grass). And then on to the Government offices in Brazil to gain title to the island with the fruits of his exploration ipso facto. He was ready to retire and build his community, the last letter in the alphabet of his life. There is no paradise in the state of Rondonia, Brazil and state of Beni, Bolivia with exception of the river twin ports Guajara-mirim and Guaharamerin which were already settled by Spanish and in fact the costliest rail road in the world per mile of rail in terms of monetarily and in terms of human lives had already been built there to circumvent a troublesome stretch of river from Guajaramirim-Guaharamerin down to Puerto Velho, Brazil where the rubber could then be loaded again on boats to proceed to the Atlantic more than another thousand miles. And places in Rondonia state not far from Guajara-mirim and Guaharamerin have populations where more than eighty percent have at one time or another been infected with malaria. THE PUZZLE OF THE UNEXPLORED ISOLATED TWO MILE DIAMETER RAISED ISLAND PLATEAU NEXT TO DEAD HORSE CAMP:...... Thank you to the MSN Encarta Atlas, a marvel, we can now view on line the greater Dead Horse Camp area in the remote Mato Grosso Amazon. And in a sea of low rolling rainforest given the survey figures of Bolivia border surveyor Colonel Percy Fawcett as adjusted by British Royal Navy Air Force Commander George Dyott (who led a search party to find him) with the Royal Geographic Society we can now determine that Dead Horse Camp was a few miles in distance directly adjacent to or was directly on or on the slopes of a raised island plateau of two miles diameter isolated by itself, a geology feature of isolation by itself surrounded 360 degrees by a vast sea of low altitude green rolling rain forest canopy of the Mato Grosso. To climb this square mile elevation plateau or hill or ancient volcanic cone in the center of nowhere would offer Colonel Fawcet on a clear day a significant elevated view to the north and west border of Mato Grosso and a particularly good view with a good telescope. Colonel Percy Fawcett would never have left Dead Horse Camp without making the climb for an overlook of where he was heading. And if he carried a telescope it may still remain hidden atop this remote island plateau. His known way was to leave and hide any equipment once it was not longer absolutely necessary and return later to recover if possible. It was his formula for success. To travel light. If he carried a telescope (one has never been recovered) does it remain hidden atop the Dead Horse Camp island plateau. Also it was in a 1921 Geographic society expedition Colonel Fawcett shot his horse and gave the camp the name "Dead Horse Camp". There were Onithlogists included in the expedition as I best recall and the only place to study eagle roosts is up on the island plateau, or volcanic cone or very high hill, whatever it may be. The raised island plateau next to Dead Horse Camp sits alone by itself in a low rolling sea of canopy. Dead Horse Camp is where an orthonologist comes by virtue there is no place to study eagle roosts ipso facto. It is exceptionally remote making it ideal for eagles and their roosts. It is likely the Colonel had been on the top at one time or the other in 1921 although not an ornithologist, as well as unquestionable in 1925 mapping. It is probably that Dead Horse Camp had it's origins 1921 as a specialized Ornithologist's camp. The elevated two mile in diameter island next to it isolated and alone in a large sea of low rolling Mato Grosso forest canopy being a roost of the King Vulture. As well a few Andean Condors with a ten foot wing span are reported if fact or not to exist in remoter areas of the Mato Grosso, with no place being more remote than Dead Horse Camp. The Camp is also an indirect out of the way route to the upper Xingu. There are shorter and faster routes. Thus Colonel Percy Fawcett had business at Dead Horse Camp before preceeding on to the Xingu and thus did not take the shortest route but preceeded by way of Dead Horse Camp. The main business was probably maping from the elevated island of land next to the Dead Horse Camp. The camarada or guide by the name of Bernardino who took the Fawcett party from Dead Horse Camp to the upper Xingu may have been a more seasoned guide, perhaps the father or uncle even of camaradas Simoes and Gardinia. Bernardino was with the Fawcett expedition during the entire duration and likely that Simoes and Gardinia were simply "helpers" not mentioned who did not merit the title of "Camarada" and were not mentioned as such. From Dead Horse Camp where Colonel Fawcet wrote a letter to Nina and son Jack wrote a letter to his mother also the expedition moved on. Bernardino continued on guiding the Fawcett party another 80 miles east north east to the upper Xingu river basin area spot on the west side of a location on the Coliseu river not that far in miles from the Kalapalo-Kuikuro villiage to the east on the Kuluene river. It was former British Royal Navy Squadron Commander George Dyott who retraced the steps of the Fawcett Party leading the expediton in 1928 to find the 1925 Fawcett Party expedition and it was Commander George Dyott who earlier had been commissioned to follow and confirm the correctness of the exploration report of the Teddy Roosevelt party on their primative Amazon exploration and was successfull in doing so. Commander George Dyott probably limits mention to Bernardino as Camarada as Simoes and Gardina to reiterate were simply helpers and not camaradas. It is likely Simoes and Gardinia helped with the pack mules on the expedition all the way to latitude 12 50 south longitude 53 25 west approximately on the edge of the Bakairi tribal land line where Bernardino, Simoes and Gardinia took the mules and headed back to Posto Simoes Lopes unloading first a stash of supplies, gifts and trade goods in socializing and trading with the indians on the Kuluene river, the main water source of the Xingu river, about 45 miles directly east of longitude 53 25. To the east north east between 45 and 55 miles were two inhabited lakes and the indians of the area told the Dyott party the Fawcett exploration first spent some days on the lake before reaching the Kuluene now known as Porto Meinoacos (now a remote weather station which is actually a Kuelene river inlet that sits back in a few miles from the Kuluene with no feeder system but the back up water of the Kuluene river. And they may have and probably did built a raft for local transportation to and fro but not for serious down river travel. This is speculation). In any event it appears the Fawcett party met it's end in the upper Xingu somewhere and sometime not that long after camping at now remote weather station Porto Meinoacos by the result of petty suspicion and design resulting in a flare up of a limited number of members of the Kalapalo-Kuikuro people at some place outside of their villiage who had no villiage authorization to kill them. In fact the villiage found them missing or no longer in their camp when they went out to see them to socialize. This had happened before on the Xingu although in 1925 it was basically a friendly place. What was politically unfortunate however was the question of the slave trade still in in Brazil existing illegally year 1925 with the Bakairi indians regarded as suspicious by the Xingu indians and the Xingu indian belief, true or not true, that newly built Posto Simoes Lopes in the Bakairi indian reservation dealt illegally in slaves in the year 1925 true or not. Ironically the Kalapalo-Kuikuro patronized Posto Simoes Lopes. Colonel Fawcett notes in his log he spoke with a Kalapalo at the Post. They were the last of the noble cannibals anthropologist Ellen Basso writes about. They would not have eaten the Fawcett party however as cannibalism was reserved for the formally defined enemy and ally of that enemy. The Fawcett party was not the formal enemy or ally of the enemy so after being killed in a paranoid flare up they would not have been eaten but left where they lay or buried like their own tribal members. The Kalapalo-Kuikuro were a fat well fed people. Orlando Boas the world famous Brazilian advocate for the betterment of the Xingu tribes of the Mato Grosso calls the villiage where the murderers came from Kalapalo and that same villiage today calls itself Kuikuro. The villiage was mixed Kalapalo-Kuikuro (people of the same language) and the villiage proportion then was probably more Kalapalo and today more Kuikuro. However the villiagers regard themselves as the same villiage as existed 80 years ago and they are correct. They speak Kalapalo-Kuikuro. There is no Kalapalo language or Kuikuro language. There is Kalapalo-Kuikuro. The villiage today says the Fawcett party moved on and they had no rift with them. They visited their camp to see them one day and found them gone. Orlando Boas was who found out about the murder of the Fawcett party by some indians Kalapalo and came to the villiage instructing to produce the skeleton of a tall man. The skeleton of the grandfather, a tall man, of the Chief of the villiage was dug up and presented as Colonel Fawcett. The villiage presently has a legal action in process to recover the skeleton. Orlando Boas to the day he died insisted the information he gained is correct and it was people in that villiage who killed the Fawcett party over a perceived insult of Colonel Fawcett slapping a young male who lay his hands on his machete and not sharing a duck the party had killed. The duck seems to be just picking at nothing and the Colonel was probably aware of that. He could be rough at times. His peons in the Bolivian Lost world prayed to leave them sit and die and he beat them to bring them out of the mood. As he so writes himself. POSTO SIMOES LOPES BAKAIRI INDIAN RESERVATION TRADING POST:......Posto Simoes Lopes in the central Mato Grosso is due east two hundred and ten miles and nearly one degree of latitude more northerly at 14 degrees south from the black African community of Mato Grosso City (Vila Bela Santissima Trinidad) at latitude 15 degrees south on the Guapore River nearing the Bolivia border. Cannibals in the third decade of the 20th century traded at Posto Simoes Lopes of the Bakairi indian reservation. Among these tribes to mention one was the Kalapalo, regarded in a well read scholarly book as the last of the proud cannibals. Black Mato Grosso City near directly due west was not without who are called today "uncontacted people" as Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett describes when he was Major Fawcett prior to WW1 working for Bolivia as a border surveyor - the residents of Mato Grosso City shut themselves in their homes at night while the primative people came in from the surrounding forests and roamed the streets. The community of Mato Grosso located on the Guapore river shipped raw rubber down river to the Brazilian Port of Guajara-mirim twin sister community of Guaharamerin Bolivia directly across river as in the photo above. In fact commissioned by La Paz Bolivia in the survey-exploration of what is now Bolivia Noel Kempff National Park (named the "Lost Word" in a book by a friend of colonel Fawcett Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) the presence of rubber trees as an economic asset was regarded as primary for shipping of raw rubber down the Guapore to Guayaramerin. These sister communities were a few miles downriver of where the Guapore river merged with the Mamore river. The rubber was put on a train with tracks beginning at Guajara-mirim to circumvent for more than a hundred miles a troublesome stretch of river the tracks ending at the Brazilian river port city of Puerto Velho and then put back on boats to proceed by water more than another thousand miles to the Atlantic. The track at its time of construction was the most costly per mile of rail laid in the world in terms of monetary investment, and also in terms of human lives lost. Mato Grosso City was supplied mainly by Guajara-mirim and Guaharamerin as water was the cheapest form of transportation of goods and supplies and less by Corumba Brazil to the south on the Paraguay river, or by Cuiaba. Bakairi trading post (Posto Simoes Lopez) was supplied more by Cuiaba, Brazil and Corumba, Brazil to the south and much less by Guajara-mirim and Guaharamerin. THE SETTING:......Posto Simoes Lopes (Bakairi Indian Trading Post) year 2006 is still located where it was in 1925 when Colonel Percy Fawcett Fawcett set out on the expedition in which he disappeared, presumed dead. Posto Simoes Lopes is where Colonol Fawcett first met and spoke to a Kalapalo Indian. North of Posto Simoes Lopez and slightly to the east a few days travel was Dead Horse Camp which was a nature clearing. Good to basic roads run from the city of Cuiaba, Brazil in the Mato Grosso to the Bakairi Indigina reservation in the Mato Grosso in which Posto Simoes Lopez is located. Frequency of stage or bus into Posto Simoes unknown by this writer at this time year 2006 and accomodations unknown. Possibly a travel guide such as Lonely Planet will list Posto Simoes Lopes and this information. I am looking into it. The road ends today at Posto Simoes Lopes I think I can get in there by stage and find a place to stay with meals, take photos and photos of the beginning of the trail to Dead Horse Camp. I will make it there November 2006 likely but not proceed farther towards Dead Horse Camp. To the north of Posto Simoes Lopes travel 1925 was by foot or horse perhaps accompanied by pack mule or simply leading a pack mule, or by river by canoe. Today however in the vicinity of Dead Horse Camp one is likely to find timber cuts and agriculture and ranching.. The times change as populations increase. In Brazil today new major highways and cities where there were settlements come out of nowheres. SON BRIAN FAWCETT CONSIDERED HEAVILY THE POSSIBILITY HIS FATHER HAD BEEN MURDERED AND HAD NEVER LEFT DEAD HORSE CAMP:.......From an objective point of view son Brian Fawcett could never give much credibility to any sighting of his father following his reaching Dead Horse Camp in 1925. A reason for this as I would see it is as follows. And that is his father was a former Bolivia border surveyor commissioned by the capital La Paz, Bolivia when he was retired British Major Fawcett before WW1. In the immediate area between Guayaramerin, Bolivia going south following the Guapore river upriver to Mato Grosso City, Brazil in the Mato Grosso the Guapore river area was remote and isolated and primative. Floods cause rivers to change course and land that was in Bolivia could now be in the Brazil and in Brazil in Bolivia. And this was the case before Major Percy Fawcett assumed border surveying responsibilities for Bolivia, and during the years he surveyed along the Bolivia border, and after he left Bolivia to to enter WW1. He carried much information in his head and land was becoming scarcer. Human life did not have the highest value in the South America Guapore river valley with the river creating the border between Brazil and Bolivia. Life could be regarded as cheap in terms of land possession. The best way to have no evidence was to get rid of all evidence. DID THE PERCY FAWCETT EXPEDITION ONCE IT HAD GOTTEN ITS FEATURE ARTICLE ON THE LAST OF THE CANNIBALS INTEND TO TRAVEL DOWN THE XINGU TO THE VAST KAYAPO-TUKAHAME LANDS:.....The Kayapo had no bad habits a European culture community woud be adverse to and perhaps they could learn from the Kayapo one of the best organized people in the world. The Kayapo lands on the Xingu equaled in square mileage the nation of Austria and were a paradise offering security to an Ideal Community that could help cooperatively with the problems the Kayapo nation was having with the government of Brazil. The Kayapo are among the best organized people in the world and it would be near impossible to get a gold mine away from the Kayapo to pay the government of Brazil for title to the Brazilian Bananal Island paradise for the ideal community there, but the Kayapo lands themselves offered this same opportunity for the ideal community on Kayapo lands cooperative with the Kayapo. After he got his feature article on the last of the cannibals on the far upper Xingu did the Colonel intend to go down river to the Kayapo lands to see if a deal could be worked out? The Ideal Community on Kayapo lands could help the Kayapo with problems it was having with the government of Brazil. As it became feared the Fawcett party had met with trouble Nina Fawcett at home the wife of the Colonel began to speak of the ideal community he was seeking and soon he would send for her. She believed it was north and west of Dead Horse Camp which is where he spoke of to her but from these areas it is difficult to define where it would be although this area as possibilities can not be left out although there is the problem of "security" if remote. Whereas on the Austria size Kayapo lands, Indians of no bad habits, security would not be a problem for the Fawcett ideal community if he could work such a community out with the Kayapo. And on the other hand did the Colonel intend to grab the gold mines of the Kayapo to pay the Brazilian government for title to the Bananal Island to place his community there. Before his expedition he had spoken to his son Brian how the expedition would go explore due east of Dead Horse Camp, Posto Simoes Lopes and Cuyaba along the river das Mortes to the savannah lands and river system east of the Rancador mountains (where the paradise Bananal Island is located). Then they would move back westerly and travel northerly along the eastern slopes of the Rancador mountains. This would put them in the eastern lands of the Kayapo-Tukahame. However this expedition planed route was put aside in favor of what wife Nina Fawcett had knowledge of immediately before the expedition left in 1925 which was to explore north north west of Posto Simoes Lopes and not to the east. However the report of British Royal Naval Air Force Commander George Dyott searching for the Fawcett party in 1928 lends that the expedition did travel east (not north north west) but did not move around the southern tip of the Rancador mountains to fulfill the earlier plan but traveled as far as to be near the southern western slopes of the Rancador mountains in the far upper Xingu river system. Where the Dyott report concludes they probably met their death by native indians of that far upper Xingu river area. A question must be asked if Colonel Fawcett had a two fold mission which is along with gaining his feature article on the last of the cannibals of the extreme upper Xingu river the Kalapalo-Kuikuro and a book commission he hoped these less cultured indians and others farther down river would yet know the accurate location of the Kayapo-Tukahame gold mines to the north and he could grab the Kayapo mines by gaining his information on their location by this means to present the information to the Government of Brazil as a trade to gain title to the Bananal Island (if this was his choice for location for the community) to build his community. King Solomon's Mines so close yet so far away. And within not many days travel the still unrecognized Eden where the Jaguars grazed on the grass, of the Bananal Island, entirely accessable by safe river travel then. A community Nina would love. Unrecognized and remote then. Today the Brazil national park that receives more visitors than any other in the nation for family travel to. THE ILL FATED EXPEDITION:.....Sometime at or after they had moved on beyond the Dead Horse Camp colonel Percy Fawcett gave his camarada Bernardino who would be departing at a point from the expedition a letter he had written at the camp its content having seriously inaccurate survey information that he was 138 miles farther north towards the equator (giving incorrect latitude 11 degrees 43' south, correct longitude 54 degrees 35' west) than he actually was to mail to his wife Nina Fawcett with words "have no fear of failure". The planned path of the expedition had also changed drastically for unknown reasons, perhaps the amount of rainfall and inundation of the savannas to the east was one, as the initial exploration plan as he showed his son Brian (although he subsequently gave to wife Nina and gave other pertinent information of a primative but less primative expedition to the north west of Posto Simoes Lopes the Bakairi indian trading post) had been to strike east from Dead Horse Camp around the south end of the Mato Grosso Rancador Mountains and explore the savanna lands over to the Araguaya river. Probably to evaluate the great Bananal Island of the Araguaya, largest river island in the world with one third of it remaining above water in the rainy season, then remote in 1925, but now a roadless national park one reaches by crossing over by boat, the paradise that more Brazilians visit each year than any other park in Brazil. Colonel Fawcett's purpose would have been to evaluate Bananal island for the ideal community he had thoughts about starting. And from the Araguaya river strike back west to the Rancador mountains heading north on the eastern side of the Rancador mountains and at their northern end continue striking west to find the legend lost city of gold of Bandeiras - which would have brought the expedition near immediately to the south central Xingu river system of the Mato Grosso placing the Fawcett expedition near the vast land holdings of the Kayapo people (the Tukahame), year 2006 the richest group per capita in the world because of one of the richest gold holdings in the world. (the greater part of the Kayapo land holdings are north of the state of Mato Grosso border at about latitude ten degrees south in the Brazil state of Para, but there are Kayapo tribes with land holdings along the Xingu river in northern Mato Grosso also). Why the expedition path plan was changed to a direct route north beginning at Dead Horse Camp up the upper alto Xingu river system west of the Rancador mountains is not known to reiterate. It was not the planned route. The planned route was to strike from Dead Horse Camp directly east circumventing the upper (Alto) Xingu river system on the west side of the Rancador mountains thus favoring a route to the legendary gold city Bandeiras north following the east side of the Rancador mountains and as well exploring savanna lands over to the Araguaya river east of the Rancador mountains reiterating. There was a legendary treasure along this circumventing route also but it was believed buried gold of a black slave on the Araguaya river tributary the Rio Das Mortes thought to have become wealthy from a gold strike. The actual route taken, which led directly north from Dead Horse Camp on the Alto Xingu river system on the west side of the Rancador mountains was much shorter and more economical in terms of time for certain and by 1925 the Xingu river tribes were regarded as not dangerous to foreign expeditioners, and in actuality the murders of foreign expeditioners going back to the later 19th century have since the beginning been few and far apart on the Xingu. And it was the smart move as in year 1925 the Xingu indians suspected heavily that Bakairi Trading Post the Fawcett expedition had stopped at not many days prior to Dead Horse Camp was in the illegal business of selling slaves and were very cautious in their trading there. Thus exploration of first the Bananal Island for evaluation for his new community and then striking west into the Xingu would have caused the indians to suspect he was looking for slaves. Illegal slave market dealing was a problem in Brazil in year 1925. And it was smart to first have the gold to put on the table in front of the government of Brazil for a grant to the Bananal for the community he wished to start before evaluating what can not afforded without. With the recent building of the remote Bakairi Trading Post the area was begining to open up and there were a lot of men looking for gold. Every day counted. Ironically exactly where he believed the legend lost city of gold was years later after Colonel Percy Fawcett the richest or one of the richest deposits of gold in the world has been found. Thus the camarada Bernardino beginning Dead Horse Camp guided the expedition not due east around the southern tip of the Rancador mountains but instead guided them a full degree of latitude near directly north in the upper Alto Xingu river system, to deep within that system, where expedition and camarada departed, Bernardino carrying the colonel's letter to his wife to be mailed. Within a short time the colonel Percy Fawcett expedition had reached the Kalapalo-Kuikuro peoples in the upper Xingu (peoples speaking the same carib language sometimes mixed occupying a village and sometimes seperate) and camped outside of their village. The Fawcett expedition was never seen nor heard from following that. (Josh Bernstein in his Amazon Adventure documentary that includes the search for the Colonel Percy Fawcett Lost City of Z and what happened to the Fawcett expedition found those in the indian camp previously Kalapalo now call themselves Kuikuro but Kalapalo-Kuikuro is listed hyphenated as one language. To reiterate these people live in some villages seperately and in other villages mixed. Population proportion changes within would account for the village becoming Kuikuro. It is the same Kalapalo village people the Fawcett expedition presented themselves to and was never seen thereafter and the villagers regard themselves now as the same people that were there back then.). As a Bolivia government surveyor Colonel (then Major) Fawcett earlier working directly in the Brazilian Mato Grosso bordering Bolivia knew well the Bolivia-Brazil Mato Grasso border area to the west of Cuiaba Brazil, Cuiaba more central in the Mato Grosso, much too well to give his position 138 miles nearer to the equator to the north than was the actual case. He was familiar to the south west of Cuiaba with Corumba in the Mato Grosso on the Paraguay river seperating Brazil and Bolivia. And to the west of the more central Mato Grosso Bakairi Indian Trading Post he was familiar with the Brazil headwaters of the Guapore river (called the river Itenez in Brazil) north of Corumba in the western Mato Grosso, which is navagible to its source. Corumba being his headquarters when he was a Major before WW1 and working for Bolivia as a surveyor having been commissioned by La Paz Bolivia to explore, survey and report on what is now the immense and primative Noel Kempff National Park of Bolivia (given the name of "The Lost World" in a book by his friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) which few people today go into exception of camping on the fringe, a government provided guide required and with the primativeness extending across the Guapore river into Brazil Mato Grosso where a number of uncontacted peoples live, with the Major Fawcett survey expedition at the earlier time taking a route north of Corumba traveling in the Mato Grosso to the Brazilian Mato Grosso headwaters of the Guapore river and then up the Bolivia Green river in the not ill fated expedition in which the peons praying to sit and die he had to beat to bring them out of the mood, which accomplished the objective set forth by La Paz. The most likely reason for this error is with his wife showing the letter when she received it, he put himself deeper into unexplored territory for his reading audience and for easier funding should it be needed and he had to come out to seek it. Colonel Fawcett's written location in his letter to his wife give him as camped much farther north than he actually was camped, and camped to the west of and up against the vast to the east Xingu river lands dominated by the Kayapo indians, year 2006 the wealthiest group per capita of all world people by reason of their one of the richest gold holdings in the world, and who remain unconquered choosing the uncontacted way of life although they have air fields and send their brightest to universities. The Kayapo legend lends that untill the great drought of Tiwanaku (Atlantis of Plato) 1,000 years ago they were part of the Tiwanaku people and living in the Bolivia Altiplano which would lend that at one time this place they now inhabit was known to Tiwanaku as "the place of the Jaguar people" who were kind enought to show the Kayapo when they arrived there how to light a fire in the rain forest according to the legend. Exploring deep in uncharted territory is what people and explorer societies and the news media wanted from Colonel Fawcett. Even when he worked for the government of Bolivia as a border surveyor and writing and exploring were only a past time he could throw a "tall one" in on occasion but never in terms of mathmatical survey values or national revenue economics but more towards the size of Anacondas as an example or Jaguars (certainly a Jaguar is bigger than a leopard and a few big Jaguars are the size of smaller Bengal tigers but on the average the Jaguars of the Mato Grosso are not the size of Bengal tigers). On his 1925 expedition he was not working as a government border surveyor but as a world famous explorer. My interpretation may be wrong. There are a number of other possibilities for the seriously incorrect survey mathmatics of his location at Dead Horse Camp in his letter to his wife, one of which I mention as the "gold fever". And there are many others. Away from news media coverage Fawcett Amazonas expeditions point to differences and extreme differences in cultures, from early Bolivia Government border and other surveys, one objective of the Green river "Lost World" survey of Bolivia bordering the Brazil Mato Grasso to find for the nation of Bolivia rubber trees as a source of revenue and other sources of revenue, to seventeen years later the no longer government but private expedition in the Mato Grasso in the upper Xingu river area in search of the lost Atlantis annex city. The carib speaking Kalapalo-Kuikuro indians of the upper Xingu river area with a high level of certainty likely murdered the Colonel Percy Fawcett expedition for the reasons given below (read following the photos) but why did his possessions later end up to the south nearer to Dead Horse Camp and Cuiaba? His compass turned up 1933 with Bacaari indians who had no communities in 1925 in the upper alto Xingu river drainage area - although some Bacaari (Bacaari) lived on the south right up against the upper alto Xingu river system having turned to European farming methods - and it lends it may not have been that difficult to trace with these indians the origin of the compass but little seems done. The Bakairi indians who were usually the expedition guides and suspected by the alto Xingu system indians of magic had totally removed from the Alto Xingu by 1925 but many had remained at the edge up against the upper alto Xingu at Bakairi Trading Post, in settlements surrounding the Post. The Bakairi Trading Post was not many days hike from Dead Horse Camp and the indians of the upper Xingu traded there coming from much farther distance than Dead Horse Camp. The trading post had been established 1920. Trade is universal and diffuse. The Kalapalo traded at the Post and it would be likely they would have brought colonel Fawcetts compass in to trade. It would have had no value to them but some value to the Europeanized Bakairi (Bacaari) indians. The compass was the colonel's compass, an absolute. Also reported found was in 1926 the name plate off a case of the colonel - not as certain. And there are reports of a dog the Fawcett expedition had with them returning very skinny to the owner colonel Fawcett had purchased it from - again not as certain. But the compass found with the Bacaari indians 1933 is reiterating an absolute. It belonged to the Colonel And it was Colonel Fawcetts custom in earlier years to hire peons to accompany the expeditions. Why did he not hire peons to accompany this expedition that he had written "might have a duration of two years". Was it a trimmed budget? Yet when food carried by an expedition runs out it become difficult to feed a large group on game, fish and vegitation. And to reiterate the Bakairi indians who were the only readily available persons to hire as peons in that area were believed by the upper Xingu indians as bringing "magic" and frowned upon by the upper Xingu tribes. The expedition Camarada (guide) by the name of Bernardino accompanied the party beyond Dead Horse Camp where they had spent at least a night, into the upper Xingu region, the Coliseu (Kuluseu, Kulisevu, Kurisevo) river, where Bernardino departed back to Cuiaba with written material given to him by the Colonel (a letter to his wife with mention of the fact that at the time of the writing they were stopped in Dead Horse Camp, with his surveyors precise location which turned out to be not precise but incorrect, as given in the letter indicating he was at that time surveying the camp - or it is possible had surveyed it four years past actually on an earlier expedition, when he had to shoot a horse there who broke a leg). The Colonel writes in the letter he gave Bernardino they had arrived at Dead Horse Camp and places Dead Horse Camp two degrees north of its actual location in latitude. A very serious error for a surveyor as two degrees means the expedition had traveled north much closer to the equator than it actually had. To reiterate for a surveyor this is a very serious error. Enough of an error to cause a Bolivian earthquake along with earthquakes in all bordering nations - yet all surveyors make errors. In the retracing of the Fawcett expedition commander George Dyott commissioned to discover the Fawcett party or their fate could only conclude loosely to the effect the Colonels mind had been "preoccupied". Bernardino who also accompanied the George Dyott expedition pointed out the camp and related to Dyott that Colonel Fawcett had told him about having to shoot his horse at the camp, calling it "Dead Horse Camp". At Dead Horse Camp where Colonel Fawcett states he is writing the letter - at some point between Dead Horse Camp and the Coliseu (Kuluseu) river the Colonel had given the letter to Bernardino to mail upon return to Cuiaba - being Bernardino continued to accompany the Fawcett party north to the Kuluseu river area of the upper Xingu river region before departing back to Cuiaba. To reiterate for a surveyor it was a very serious error. Percy Fawcett had a reputation as a surveyor who did not make errors. But it may have involved memory and may be the Colonel was this time year 1925 not surveying having actually surveyed Dead Horse Camp four years earlier when he had first been there on an earlier expedition and had to shoot his horse there This survey error of two degrees had to be resolved as an error on the part of Colonel Percy Fawcett for professionals to conclude that George Dyott had actually followed the real trail of Percy Fawcett. To reiterate again it is a very serious error for a surveyor to be off two degrees in latitude in an actual survey. But given the possible situation a current survey had not taken place and a surveyor's memory after four years lapse may often not be exact without refreshment explains the survey discrepancy. Colonel Fawcett probably did not refresh his memory going over again his four year old survey (this could be a conclusion). The incorrect significantly more northerly latitude he wrote down as the location of Dead Horse Camp may have been on his mind for example as a latitude with a point on that line somewhere where the lost city and gold would be found along their expedition path. And it was so strongly on his mind that he entered it as the Dead Horse Camp latitude without thinking. There can be many mental reasons not associated with an ongoing survey given there was no ongoing survey and a historical survey was being relied on. It is very likely that within hours after the Camarada Bernardino had left to return to Cuiaba Colonel Fawcett realized he had made the mistake being mentally engrossed and preoccupied. They call it the "gold fever". (Note: the two degree error of Dead Horse Camp being 138 miles in latitude more northerly towards the equator than was the case Colonel Fawcett made is discussed in the Geographical Journal of the Royal Geographic Society, vol 73, no 6 June 1929 pages 540-42. In the end all that was decided is that "he had entered an 11 instead of a 13) (continue on beyond photos)