Word: kalapalos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Fawcett's fate swiftly became one of the celebrated mysteries of modern times. Sunday-supplement editors printed endless accounts of travelers who claimed to have seen or heard of Fawcett alive in the Amazonian wilds. Most experts felt sure that he was dead, probably murdered by the Kalapalo Indians through whose lands he had ventured in search of the original Garden of Eden. But over the years a score of international expeditions failed to find Fawcett, dead or alive. Last week the Brazilian government proudly announced that one of its Indian agents, following out the country...
Last month, after a council of the elders of the tribe had finally voted to cooperate with Orlando, Komatzi and 40 Kalapalo braves called at Orlando's headquarters deep in the jungle some 850 miles northwest of Rio. Taking Orlando and an interpreter, they marched eastward for five hours to the bank of the Kuluene River. There all halted in absolute silence. After another session with his elders, Komatzi sent a brave for a canoe. The chief stepped gravely toward Orlando, pointed to a mark cut in the trunk of a nearby tree. "This is how tall Ingueleze...
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