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Authors: David Grann

149
“like something from”:
Ibid., p. 45.

149
“Because of many reports”:
Carvajal, appendix to
Discovery of the Amazon,
p. 245.

150
“Cinnamon of the most”:
Quoted in Hemming,
Search for El Dorado,
p. 111.

150
“The butcher Gonzalo”:
Ibid., p. 112.

151
“like mad men”:
Carvajal,
Discovery of the Amazon,
p. 172.

151
“either die or see”:
Ibid., p. 171.

151
“went in as far”:
Ibid., p. 213.

151
“as the brown waters”:
St. Clair,
Mighty, Mighty Amazon,
p. 47.

152
“more rich and bewtifull cities”:
Ralegh,
Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful
Empyre of Guiana,
p. 111.

152
“more desirous”:
Quoted in Trevelyan,
Sir Walter Raleigh,
p. 494.

152
“God knows”:
Ibid., pp. 504–5.

152
His skull was:
Adamson and Folland,
Shepherd of the Ocean,
p. 449.

152
“Some, contrary to nature”:
Quoted in Hemming,
Search for El Dorado,
p. 63.

152
“Oh, diabolical plan!”:
Ibid., p. 42.

152
“They marched like”:
Ibid., p. 172.

153
“exaggerated romance”:
Fawcett to Arthur R. Hinks, n.d., RGS.

153
“All that night”:
Carvajal,
Discovery of the Amazon,
p. 202.

153
“many roads” and “fine highways”:
Ibid.

154
“great quantity of maize”:
Ibid., p. 211.

154
“cities that glistened”:
Ibid., p. 217.

154
“there was a villa”:
Ibid., p. 201.

154
“full of lies”:
Carvajal, introduction to
Discovery of the Amazon,
p. 25.

155
“Both the General”:
Quoted in Hemming,
Search for El Dorado,
p. 134.

155
“they had seen”:
Ibid., p. 133.

155
“introduction of small-pox”:
Typed extracts from Fawcett's correspondence, Faw cett to Harold Large, Oct. 16, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.

155
“the greatest secrets”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 173.

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T
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158
“incited by the insatiable”:
My translation of the document was checked against the more authoritative translation done by Richard Burton's wife, Isabel, which is included in his second volume of
Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil.

“It was difficult”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 10.

“It feels genuine!”:
Brian Fawcett to Nina and Joan, Feb. 6, 1952, Fawcett Family Papers.

C
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T
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W
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W
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M
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161
“Of course experienced”:
Keltie to Fawcett, Dec. 11, 1914, RGS.

161
“finger on important”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 3, 1915, RGS.

161
“Fear not”:
Quoted in
The New York Times Current History: The European War,
vol. 1,
August–December 1914,
p. 140.

161
“in the thick”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Jan. 18, 1915, RGS.

161
“one of the most”:
Cecil Eric Lewis Lyne, “My Participation in the Two Great Wars” (unpublished memoir), RAHT.

161
“was probably the nastiest”:
Henry Harold Hemming, “My Story” (unpublished memoir), IWM.

161
“Fawcett and I”:
Lyne, “My Participation in the Two Great Wars.”

161
One day Fawcett:
Ibid.

162
wearing a long:
See John Ramsden's first American edition of
Man of the Century: Winston Churchill and His Legend Since 1945
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), p. 372.

162
“queer garments”:
For Fawcett's encounter with Churchill, see Lyne, “My Participation in the Two Great Wars.”

162
“Filth & rubbish”:
Quoted in Gilbert,
Churchill,
p. 332.

162
“He is very well”:
Nina Fawcett to Keltie, March 2, 1916, RGS.

162
“So you can imagine”:
Nina Fawcett to Keltie, April 25, 1916, RGS.

163
“If you only knew”:
Fawcett to Edward A. Reeves, Feb. 5, 1915, RGS.

163
A bulletin:
“Monthly Record,”
Geographical Journal,
Oct. 1916, p. 354.

163
“the dream of his life”:
Nina Fawcett to Keltie, March 11, 1916, RGS.

163
“I possess the medal”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Jan. 15, 1920, RGS.

164
It was the Battle:
For descriptions of the war, see Gilbert,
Somme;
Ellis,
Eye-Deep in Hell;
Winter,
Death's Men;
and Hart,
Somme.

164
“at least provides”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 66.

164
“Tell me”:
Huntford,
Shackleton,
p. 599.

165
“Dante would never”:
Cecil Eric Lewis Lyne diary, RAHT. 165
“burnt up”:
Ellis,
Eye-Deep in Hell,
pp. 66–67.

165
“He was troubled”:
Nina Fawcett to Keltie, March 3, 1917, RGS. 165
The war had claimed:
Mill,
Record of the Royal Geographical Society,
p. 204. 165
“He was a good fellow”:
Fawcett to Keltie, n.d., 1917, RGS. 165
“of purely unselfish”:
Davson,
History of the 35th Division,
p. 43.

165
“If you can imagine”:
“British Colonel in Letter Here Tells of Enormous Slaughter,” in Fawcett's scrapbook, n.d., n.p., Fawcett Family Papers.

166
“Is that you, boy?”:
Stashower,
Teller of Tales,
p. 346.

166
“She loved you so”:
Fawcett to Doyle, March 26, 1919, HRC.

167
“He and his intelligence”:
Hemming, “My Story.” Henry Harold Hemming was also the father of John Hemming, the celebrated historian who later became the director of the Royal Geographical Society.

167
Or, as he told:
Fawcett to Doyle, March 26, 1919, HRC.

167
“many times in France”:
Washington Post,
March 18, 1934.

168
“full of the hidden”:
Letter to the editor,
Times
(London), July 4, 1936. 168
“It is a little”:
Keltie to Fawcett, April 7, 1915, RGS.

168
“I am getting older”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 23, 1918, RGS.

168
“Knowing what these”:
Fawcett, letter to the editor,
Travel,
1918.

168
“the whole business”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 23, 1918, RGS.

168
“Many thousands must”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 209.

168
“now quite an inch”:
Nina Fawcett to Large, May 19, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers.

168
“We all went”:
Ibid.

169
“I had a ripping”:
Jack Fawcett to Large, Oct. 2, 1924, Fawcett Family Papers.

169
“able and willing”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 277.

169
“This is mine”:
Ibid.

169
“At school it was”:
Ibid.

169
“hidden feeling”:
Nina Fawcett to Joan, Dec. 14, 1952, Fawcett Family Papers.

169
“no favourites”:
Brian Fawcett to Nina, Dec. 5, 1933, Fawcett Family Papers.

170
“My elder brother”:
Brian Fawcett to Brigadier F. Percy Roe, March 15, 1977, RGS.

171
“the general practitioner”:
Dyott,
On the Trail of the Unknown,
p. 141.

171
“I cannot induce”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 260.

171
“one of the world's”:
Schurz, “Distribution of Population in the Amazon Valley,” p. 206.

171
“an extremely original”:
Quoted in Rob Hawke, “The Making of a Legend: Colonel Fawcett in Bolivia” (thesis, University of Essex, n.d.), p. 41.

171
“He is a visionary”:
Arthur R. Hinks to Sir Maurice de Bunsen, Feb. 26, 1920, RGS.

171
“I do not expect”:
Hinks to Keltie, Dec. 31, 1923, RGS.

171
“Remember that I”:
Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.

172
“Never mind what”:
Keltie to Fawcett, Dec. 11, 1914, RGS. 172
“rather queer”:
Hinks to Keltie, Dec. 31, 1923, RGS.

172
“I don't lose”:
Fawcett to Keltie, April 15, 1924, RGS.

172
“an opportunity to grow”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 209.

173
“the difficulty of”:
Rice, “Rio Negro, the Casiquiare Canal, and the Upper Orinoco,” p. 324.

174
“The results”:
Swanson, “Wireless Receiving Equipment,” p. 210.

175
“A large, stout”:
Rice, “Rio Negro, the Casiquiare Canal, and the Upper Orinoco,” p. 340.

175
“dress, manners, and”:
Ibid., p. 325.

175
“There was no alternative”:
Rice, “Recent Expedition of Dr. Hamilton Rice,” pp. 59–60.

175
“We could hear”:
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 22, 1920. 175
“skedaddled”:
Fawcett to Keltie, July 18, 1924, RGS.

175
“rather too soft”:
Fawcett to Keltie, April 9, 1924, RGS.

176
“it is quite”:
RGS to de Bunsen, March 10, 1920, RGS.

176
On February 26:
My description of the meeting between Fawcett and Rondon is drawn largely from Leal's
Coronel Fawcett,
pp. 95–96.

176
“it is a matter”:
Fawcett to Secretary, War Office, Feb. 17, 1919, WO 138/51, TNA.

176
“The higher rank”:
Fawcett to the Secretary of the Army Council, Aug. 8, 1922, WO 138/51, TNA.

176
“instant attention”:
Quoted in Hemming,
Die If You Must,
p. 14.

177
Undeterred, Fawcett:
In
Exploration Fawcett,
both Brown and Holt are given pseudonyms. The former is referred to as Butch Reilly and the latter as Felipe.

177
“I'm flesh and blood”:
Ibid., p. 214.

178
In the 1870s:
Hobhouse,
Seeds of Wealth,
p. 138.

178
“The electric lights”:
Furneaux,
Amazon,
p. 159.

178
“impoverished and backward”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
pp. 212–13.

178
“Lat x+4 to x + 5”:
Nina Fawcett to Large, June 10, 1921, Fawcett Family Papers.

178
May “protection” be:
Jack Fawcett to Fawcett, March 3, 1920, Fawcett Family Papers.

178
“get alarmed at”:
Fawcett to James Rowsell, June 10, 1921, TNA.

178
“I am going to”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 2, 1920, RGS.

179
“More than half ill”:
Holt diary, Oct. 24–26, 1920, ADAH.

179
“giving me”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 218.

179
“It was rather”:
Ibid., p. 192.

179
“It is awful”:
Holt diary, Nov. 18, 1920.