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...explorer? They give various excuses for their wanderings. When Explorer P. H. Fawcett, with his son Jack and Raleigh Rimell, trekked into the Xingu (pronounced: Shengoo) country of Brazil in 1925, they intended to investigate rumored traces of a lost civilization. When they had not returned nearly three years later, a search party was sent out under Explorer G. M. Dyott. With him went four inexperienced white men. In Cuyaba, last outpost of civilized Brazil, they picked up five camerados (porters). This book tells what the relief expedition accomplished...
...first traces of lost Explorer Fawcett they found among the Anauqua Indians. One of the chief's children was wearing a small brass ornament, the nameplate of Fawcett's London outfitters. In the chief's house was an English metal trunk. Chief Aloique admitted having seen Fawcett and guided him; said he had been killed by the neighboring Suya Indians. When Dyott arranged with Aloique to be taken to the scene of Fawcett's death, Aloique promised, then one night disappeared. News of the white men spread. Indians swarmed to their camp, demanding presents. It began...
...summary: HARVARD ANDOVER Woodworth, Pell, Walcott, Channing, r.w. l.w., Rolfe, Walcott Putnam, Everett, c. c., Fawcett, Ogden Stone, Baldwin, Benson, l.w. r.w., Bryant, Tolman Clement, Bailey, r.d. l.d., Rugg, Wheeler David, l.d. r.d., Gardiner, Wheeler Bartol, g. g., Neill...
HARVARD 1933 ANDOVER Baldwin, l.w. r.w., Bryant Everett, c. c., Fawcett Pell, r.w. r.w., Rolfe Clement, l.d. r.d., Rugg David, r.d. l.d., Gardner Bartol, g. g., Neill...
...double entendre which is allowed to appear, lucid and poetical, between obstetrical jokes, the acerbities of the Pickle women and the antic gaieties of Hatchways and Fawcett. is ascribable to the author of the play, Kate Parsons. That it makes of The Commodore Marries so funny, so human, so sad a play is doubtless due largely to the direction of Arthur Hopkins and to the sympathy and skill of Walter Huston's acting...