Show y I 1 I 1 hopes om to lo find ind pigheaded pig i headed indians indict is X X i ai V 0 TV rl PA 4 k 4 ALONE LONE trek through the hostile jungles of northernmost Bra brazils zits pristine halt half world in search of new light on the savage tribes infesting tile the dark recesses of that most inaccessible of territories has been begun by desmond holdridge twenty four year old leader of the brooklyn museums brazil expedition according to a cablegram received by lee trenholm bolm the expeditions new york manager leaving for Cat was waa the brief text of the message dispatched from manaos malaos an inland metropolis at the confluence of the negro find and the amazon 1000 miles from the atlantic it laconically imparted the information that holdridge accompanied by a native mechanic and emerson smith expedition tion motion picture cameraman had set out from mantles in their 32 foot cabin cruiser rio mar on a GOO COO mile water journey up the negro and branca rivers to the head of navigation of the rio Cat at tills this point has long planned to plunge westward alone into the enveloping silence of the anex elored and deadly melo mundo or half world somewhere within the f fastness he hopes to locate pig head ed indians and to establish definitely that their porcine ceremonial masks rather than actually misshapen crant uma ams have ben bein responsible for reports of their existence it will be about four months before holdridge Is to emerge to miles to the west on the venezuelan side of the mountains and descends the orinoco watershed to keep a rendezvous with smith and the illo mar where the river Turu aca tributary of tile the amazon meets the canal an anomaly of nature connecting the headwaters of south americas two mightiest streams amso in june smith Is to start from froin mannos tor for the meeting place going via the negro and rivers sharing with col P II 11 fawcett lost british explorer the belief that the fastest progress through the jungle can be made with a small party and light equipment holdridge is stripping his outfit and personnel to an irreducible minimum for his arduous journey through the moto melo mundo anti and ven om medicines sidearms notebooks a hand band movie camera and trinkets to propitiate the natives are the bulk of his impedimenta F for or sustenance ho he will depend on the rivers the forest and friendly indians deans enlisting two native aides ho he intends making his way by dugout dug out along the waterways whenever feasible or over olver rough trails hewn from the wilderness by machete when river travel becomes unsafe or impracticable ti among the hidden indian villages it which dot the region days are to be spent taking photographs assembling sem bling data and seeking ne news s of unreported un report ed tribes tribe on the cruise from manaos malaos to as far as the rio mars 3 foot draught permits them to ascend the lie Cat holdridge and smith were to make a detailed motion picture record of the extraordinary native and animal life ato to be found on every hand S seeking especially a scientifically complete camera study of a rare bird popularly known as the cock of the rocks |