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...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...
...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 to look as if the Dyott expedition too would some day need a search party. Then Dyott, after telling the Indians they would give presents next day, then start upstream, escaped with his party in the middle of the night, paddled downstream for 14 hours, got away. Says Explorer Dyott: "That Colonel Fawcett and his companions perished at the hands of hostile...
Soon U. S. Prohibition agents appeared at ''The Braes," explained to Mr. Pratt that they had no warrant to search his home. They expressed a belief that Mr. Pratt's casks had contained not flower pots but 240 cases of French champagne. Mr. Pratt not only confirmed their belief but obligingly arranged to have the shipment trucked back to Brooklyn, where it was destroyed...
...League's zeal against Col. Foran apparently overreached itself. Its hirelings in search of liquor and gambling evidence raided the Foran hunting lodge at Mt. Airy, N. J. They emerged with photographs of a bar, a cash register, beer barrels, gin bottles. They found no liquor, no slot machines. New Jersey's Republican Senators Kean and Baird, incensed at the League's "chimneysweep" tactics, rose up to demand that the President reappoint their man Foran to office on Feb. 1 when his present commission was to lapse...
...Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were not in the snow-drifted plane. The motor had been flung 100 ft. by the crash. The untouched supplies suggested they had not lived to attempt to trudge to shelter. The Nanuk notified all search parties, sent men to dig in the drifts for the bodies, to scour the adjacent coast. Last remaining ray of hope: skiis which Eielson and Borland carried with them were missing from the wrecked plane...