...... is the English Major Fawcett as emerges from his now published report, of interesting tribes of Indians never until now come in contact with whites. Fawcett will not divulge the precise location on account of the war. They live in the area of the headwaters of the Madidi River, and the total population is about 100,000. These Indian tribes not yet disturbed by culture live in extensive communal houses called 'Malocas', of conical form and about 100 feet in diameter and 70 feet in height. Each of the twenty and more families, who inhabit such a house in common, has their own fire place and their own living area, in which they stack their stores. The first Indian tribe that Fawcett met numbered approximately 3000 heads; in that neighborhood lived also three other tribes, of 5000 heads combined. They lived in constant battles with each other and were cannibals, as generally anthropophagia is commonly practiced in south America in the area of the Amazon River. Their language except for a few words has nothing in common with any of the known languages. Just three to four days march distant from this tribe Fawcett met ... (truncated)
[evidently Percy Harrison Fawcett; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Fawcett]