Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-09-12 | Page 15 | British Explorer Has Gone Native, Brazilian Claims

British Explorer Has Gone Native Nati-e Brazilian Claims Tells of Finding Leader Lead r of Last Expedition Living in Wilds of Amazon LIMA Peru Sept 12 Suc At to the lure of the jungle Lieutenant Colonel P. P H. H Fawcett British explorEr scientist and sportsman s described as living the life or of a native farmer in he wilds s sot ot of Brazil into which he he disappeared on a scientific expedition more than tw two years ago The tale Is told by Roger Roge Courteville Courteville Courte- Courte ville a Bra Brazilian engIneer who claims to h ve found Colonel Fawcett Fair Faw- his son and another white man existing in a settlement ot of their own construction near the River or of Doubt which was discovered by President Roosevelt Courteville was on an automobile expedition across Matto rosso state Brazil blazing the trail tran for fora a transcontinental highway he encountered Colonel Fawcett tt The engineer who claims to be the first man manto to traverse the jungles jungles' ot of Brazil and by motor car car arrived he here S Saturday Y Colonel Colon l Fawcett he relates received re- re from the Matto Grosso Gros- Gros so state g government to finance the search for an ancient lost city said to haVe ha been founded by white IndIans Indians In- In although never seen ty by a white man Legend was that it contained vast wealth in the form or of gold diamonds and other precious precious pre pre- cious articles SON FALLS ILL ILLAs s As the search progressed Colonel Fawcett's party encountered red trouble trou- trou ble with the Indians his son wa ivas afflicted with m malaria laria and finally after severe hardships he settled at a place about three sixty miles DInes from Diamantina city in the geographical geographical geo- geo graphical center ot of South America There amid a tropical tropic l paradise he passes passes passes' the time fishing in the rivers and shooting the brilliantly plumaged tropical birds and other game There Ther is plenty of gOOd water water wa- wa ter and the explorer and his cm are free from most ot of the complexities or of modern life CALLED MISANTHROPE describes the ColonEl Fawcett of today as a man or of dull spirit and a misanthrope hut as one who appears to be enjoying the th- primitive life or of the jungle Diamantina city Is within easy communication with Rio de by telegraph and railroad The correspondent correspondent cor- cor respondent there of the Correio Do- Do manha reported to his paper Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- No trace of here Colonel Fawcett's address is given given en in the British Who's Who Vho for 1927 as care or of the Royal Hoyal Bank of Canada Rio de Janeiro Brazil The explorer was born In Tor- Tor Qu Y Engl England nd lit in 1867 1861 He served d during the war with dIstinction In addition to his exploration work lie s an artist ot of ability an archeologist t a student ot of philosophy phy and a yacht designer and builder