Word: urriolagoitia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hunting for Col. P. H. Fawcett, who disappeared in the Matto Grosso four years ago, has become almost a profession in itself. Alexander Siemel, now at the southwestern edge of the great forest, was a onetime Fawcett searcher. His onetime companions in the jungle were Mamerto Urriolagoitia. Bolivian consul general at London, and Julian Duguid (Green Hell). As soon as Consul Urriolagoitia gets his vacation from London this summer he will join Author Duguid for another search of the forest...
Parts of South America are still wild & woolly country. One of them is jungly eastern Bolivia, which natives call the Chaco, which Author Duguid calls Green Hell. Before Duguid and his two companions (J. C. Bee-Mason and Mamerto Urriolagoitia), to their knowledge no white men had penetrated that tract since Nuflo de Chavez...
...Urriolagoitia was Bolivian consul general in London but had never been in the eastern wilds of his own country. Bee-Mason was an Arctic cinematographer. Duguid had never been outside Europe. Luckily for the expedition they had not gone very far into the jungle when they ran into Alexander Siemel (TIME, April 13, et ante) whom Duguid calls Tiger-Man because he is a famed jaguar hunter (South Americans call jaguars tigers). Siemel saw them through many a tight place...