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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1933.

THE HEART OF BRAZIL

BRITISH EXPEDITION INTO MATTO

GROSSO

IN SEARCH OF COL. FAWCETT

This and an article to follow describe a three-months journey: through Central and Northern Brazil, during the greater part of which the writer was beting as the Special Correspondent of "The London Times" with a British axpedition into fatto Gross, which was to combino a survey of the rivers with some research into the mystery of Colonel Fawcett.

By Peter Fleming.

Altogether it was a placid, comfort- able life.

Tribal Enemies, So far we had seen no Indians except, the Carajas. These are tall, stalwart, and amiable raco, vexy idle, choerful, very poor (though unaware of it), and adept in the arts of river life. They have few possessions, few bellefs, and only a limited number of curiosities. They live mainly on fish, which they shoot with long arrows, and' on The expedition's plans originally farinha, a coarse flour. The men included survey work among the wear no clothes, the women very tributaries of the River Araguaya, few. For some years now they as well as a search for traces of have been, through traders and mis- Colonel P. H.Fawcett, who with his jaionaries,..in contact with clvflisa- son and another young Englishman tion. As a result, their numbers

dwindling disappeared in the interior of Matto are

faat, and the the Grosso in 1925. Unfortunately, the rudiments of a commercial acumen Sao Paulo revolution combined with assort oddly with the nobility of. the imminence of the rains to cur-their bearing and their blithe, child- tall our programme and to trans-like temperament. They are slowly- form a full-dress expedition into a abandoning their tribal practices, more or less happy-go-lucky recon- such as transfixing the lower lip and naissanco..

branding the check-bones, The revolution broke out on the Their neighbours and enemies, Love of our departure from Sao the Chavantes, are by reputation a A painter confesses that he threw Paulo. After a few days' delay we very different people. It would be fifteen unsatisfactory pictures in left for the interior with safe-Interesting to get at the truth be the fire. His art's in the right conducts; but at Ribeirao Preto, ahind the hair-raising legends about

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night's journey north of the capital, this fierce and elusive tribe, the troop movements blocked our pro-smoke from whose fires was a daily, gress by rail. The 600-mile journey though usually a distant, feature of the by road to Gayaz took us a week the scenery on the Matto Grosso The country was in a state of plea- bank of the river. In my opinion, surable excitement. A bridge over the Chavantes represent the only the Rio Grande, on the frontier danger, in that part of the country Minas which has not been grossly exag- between Sao Paulo and

Geraes, was guarded at both endsgerated.

On August 19 we started up the

verse seemingly expand? Into good old infinite space-the re- Mrs: Grimble and family wish cognisable Euclidean, space of to express their appreciation for yesterday's school geometry. We the sympathy extended to them by strut again in our old clothes. A Massachusetts man has, mount-and barricaded in the middle. The kind friends, also for the many Like the boy in Andersen's fairy ed an automobile on pontoons and rival forces were, however, still on Tapirape in four light canoes. We white flag and a bottle of whisky we and five Brazilian camaradas. (The floral tributes and attendance at tale who saw the emperor march-equipped it with propellers to give speaking terms. With the help of a were a party of 11-six white men

ing by not in the imaginary persons rides over water.

got our safe-conducts endorsed; but robes of flattery but in the night-

the funeral.

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(Continued on Page 11.) VICTORIA HOME PROGRESS.

Southorn Distributes

The Prizes.

At Goyas we encountered further delay. The greater part of our supplles, forwarded in advance to railhead, had been commandeored by the military, July was almost out A your of trial and atress, which before we reached Leopolding our was in no way allowed to interfera. point of embarcation for the long with the steady and progressive Journey northward down the work of the institution, was reveal- Araguayn, and our last contact with ed in the annual report of the civilisation for some time to come.. | C. M. S. Victoria Home and Orphan- Three weeks after leaving age, read at the distribution of

Mrs. W. T. Southern gave away

shirt of reality, Professor Milno A German rallway is experiment-our luggage had to be dragged un- creates a sensation by showing ing with a motorbus for 34 passen der 100 yards of barbed wire en- tanglement by two members of the that the mathematical trappings gers that runs on Its rails and can of the universe are -- well, just be controlled from either end, hav- expedition crawling on all fours. trappings. Of course, this is not ing duplicate power plants. Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1933. the last word from the Rue de la

Cosmogonie. Only the other day For transporting dry commodi- the Maison Einstein announced ties in powered form a tank car has The Universe Changes by way of the Prussian Academy been invented for railroads, endiesa of Sciences that we are to pre- chains moving its louds to a dis- There is a Rue de la Paix pare ourselves for a new fashion, charge outlet in the bottom. where couturiers decide whether Since the Prussian Academy, like sleeves shall be fuller this year, the Rue de la Paix, is not given and whether evening gowns shall to premature exhibitions for the be trimmed with fur or not. benefit of the press, we must The return of notifiable diseases Leopoldina we were camped at the prizes yesterday to pupils of the From the rapidity with which wait awhile for the next universe for the week ended January, 14 foot of a little conical hill on the school maintained by the Home. the universe changes its cut we Meanwhile, we hold tight to gives the following:-Small-pox 10 shores of the island of Bananal, the might well infer that somewhere Professor Milne's old-fashioned casos, 3 deaths; diphtheria 7 cases, largest effluvial island in the world. the awards, and among those pre- there must be a corresponding style.

G deaths (one imported); enteric Opposite us was the mouth of the sent were the Bishop of Victoria Rue de la Cosmogonie. Certain

fever 5 cases; meningitia 2 cases, Rio Tapirape, a tributary of the Rt. Rev. Ronald Hall), who presid ly, we have had more styles in

Araguaya rising in the heart of the ed, Mrs. T. King, Dr. E. P. 1 death; tuberculosis 87 deaths.

unexplored area into which Faw Minett, Rev. A. D. Stewart, Rev. C. universes since relativity became the mode than the world knew

Sir Miles Lampson, British catt's expedition disappeared seven 1. Blanchett, Rev. W. Walton Ro- Minister to China, returned from years ago. Our immediate objecgers, Rev. F. Foley, Rev. G. T. Wal- from Pythagoras to the beginning of the century. With some dif-

Canton yesterday afternoon aboard five was the Headwaters of this degrave, Mias M. A. Jennings and ficulty we reconciled ourselves to As one of the directors of the HM.S. Tarantula. He embarked river, which, though it has been Miss S. L. Hollis, in charge of the the cylindrical universe. of the Research Council of Italy it was upon HMS. Bruce immediately visited by missionaries, has never Home, and many friends and sup- Maison Einstein only to find our-Marconi's fortune to summarise after his return to Hong Kong, the been properly explored. From its porters. selves helpless in its stays. If in the presence of Mussolini the destroyer departing for Swatow at headwaters we hoped that it would Following the singing of the New be possible to strike south-west Year Hymn by the pupils and a we raised so much as a flager, scientific achievements of the 6 pm.

Across country towards the district, prayer offered by a Chinese pastor, the whole crinoline of nebulae and Fascist regime during the last stars collapsed. The fashionable ten years. A mere catalogue of The appointment of Mr. near the Rio Kuluene (marked X on the gathering were entertained to a Maison de Sitter proved to be research, projects, the ad- Megarry to be head of the Sanitary the map), where we had reason to programme of singing, musical drill equally unsatisfactory. It de dress nevertheless revealed Department in succession to Mr. believe that Fawcett and his two and action songs contributed by the signed a crinoline without any a new facet of II Duce's G.. R. Sayar, was confirmed at the companions were massacred in 1925 various classes, including the

The journey, down the Araguaya school's company of Girl Guides. regard for a body to fit it; for versatility. You wished the forthrightly meeting of the Sunit- such is its space without,matter. Research Council to work under ary Board held yesterday, when Mr. had been easy and uneventful. We In the end the two conflicting your direct orders," said Marconi Megarry took the chair. The ap were a convoy of four boats; two Maisons merged and gave us the From which it may be inferred pointment of Mr. F. C. Hall to serve butalods, clinker-built craft about present expanding universe. But that II Duce did more than create on the Select Committee for Base geft, long, clumsy, capacious, and early this year Einstein, de Bitter the Council and leave it to its ments in place of Mr. C. Champkin equipped with oars and rowlocks of

Heath Robinson design; one tou, Mr. et Cie. upset the whole Rue de la own devices. His, then, is the was also confrmed.

the swift but precarious dug-out Cosmogonie by snipping out of spirit, that animates studies of their expanding universe its prin- the cosmic rays and experiments What should be a most Interest-canos of the Indians; and one cipal glory; in other words, its with rocket motors, searches ing debate is being staged at the montería, a more finished and sub- gorgeous lambda, its "cosmo- restlessly for new fuels to take Sailors and Soldiers Home, 22 stantial bit of work than the true Rotarians were entertained with logical constant," which was the place of foreign gasoline and Hennessy Read, to night at 8:00 montaria of the Amazon. In the one of the wittiest and most hu- originally introduced by Einstein fertilisers, busies itself with the p.m. The subject is "That Gambl dry season the praias, or sandbanks, mourous speaches heard for long to satisfy an esthetic need, but improvement of the national diet, ing and Sound Economic are Incom-make excellent camping grounds.time, when Mr. P. L. Collisson, head which ended by making the uni- strives to reduce the mortality patible," and this is being sustain The weather was never unplea of the Hong Kong Audit Depart versal crinoline expand. The in fever-ridden lowlands and ined by the Rev. Dr. E. L. Allen, M.A santly hot, and it was ensy to ment, addressed the Rotary Club on crinoline is still curved, but sulphur mines, ferrets out the supported by the Rev. J. Courtenay supplement our staple diet of rice "Red Tape and Green Pencil at the whether the curve is convex con- reason for the depopulation of Jacobs. The opposition is being and beans with game and fish. Gloucester Building yesterday, cave Einstela, de Sitter et Cie the mountainous country, surveys taken by Mr. G. Merriman, support Huge, handsome, and clumey Mr. P. S. Cassidy presided in the are unable to say,They want the national resources with an ed by Mr. J. H. Gelling. A cordial varieties of duck, pheasant, and absence of the President, Hon. Mr. more accurate measurements of eye for hidden iron ore and raises welcome is extended to all who turkey are plentiful and afford S. W. Too, who was indisposed, and

mediocre sport Like most of the welcomed the following guesta the body that is to inhabit it, or, the standards that engineers would like to attend.

to use their jargon, more facts must follow in building bridges

6.

WITTY TALK TO ROTARIANS.

Collisson On Red Tape And Green Pencil

wild life there, they make better Dr. N. Bercovitz (Hol How), Hor.. about the density of matter, and roads. His, too, is the credit scientific control And 11 Duce decorations for a fairy tale, than Mr. E. Taylor, Colonial Treasurer, Thus stood the cosmic fashion as for making the results of scien-in turn heads not a hundred statistics for a game book The Messrs. T. M. Gunn (Shangha of March, 1982. Now comes con- tific research immediatey avail-scientific divisions but the Re- gigantic white storkspacing the W. Arndt (Canton), M. J. Breen, W servative Professor E A. Milne able to business men. While this search Council the directing sandbanks have the galt, and very B. Finnigan, F. Freeman, and S. 0. of Oxford with a cut that com-technical and scientific paternal brain of official science. II Duce nearly the stature, of philosophers. Hill, all of Hong Kong. mends

itself to old-fashioned ism is new in Italy, it has long says a word to his Research Coun- Parrots of all kinds and colours, views. He announces the start- been familiar in the United cil and receives a few pages that many sorts of diver and many Borte ling discovery that the world is States, Germany and Great Bri summarise what Italy's Govern of hawk, haunt the tangled and in have reported terminable walls of vegetation be pretty much what we thought it tain What is new-a point on ment scien

of war no na tween which you travel..Alligators was these many centuries. which Marconi might have dwelt Even in the

provide useful targets, if nothing Curved, finite space, cosmic time, heavily is the organisation, Ition lambda “he swee) way all such Duce has exercised his powers ordinated scientific, effor

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