The Lost City of Z (44 page)

183
“[Lawrence] may be”:
Fawcett to Harold Large, March 26, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers.

184
“of faith, courage”:
Fawcett to Esther Windust, March 5, 1923, PHFP.

184
“I want to go”:
Fawcett,
Ruins in the Sky,
p. 16.

184
“unsatisfied and unsettled”:
Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

184
“both strong as”:
Fawcett to Large, Feb. 5, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

184
“I can only say”:
Fawcett to John Scott Keltie, April 4, 1924, RGS.

185
“All water has”:
Nina Fawcett to Large, Nov. 26, 1922, Fawcett Family Papers.

185
“The situation is”:
Fawcett to Large, Oct. 16, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.

185
“My man actually”:
Nina Fawcett to Large, July 18, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers.

185
“I wish you”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 29, 1923, RGS.

185
“P.H.F. was in”:
Nina Fawcett to Large, Aug. 14, 1922, Fawcett Family Papers.

185
“My father's impatience”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 275.

186
“Archeological and ethnological”:
Fawcett to Large, Oct. 16, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.

186
“the money wasted”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 29, 1921, RGS.

186
“men of science”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 208.

186
“all the skepticism”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 1, 1924, RGS.

186
“going to see”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 18, 1922, RGS.

186
“The valley and city”:
Mrs. Letheran to Fawcett, Oct. 9, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers.

186
“the treasures of”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Planetary Control,” p. 347.

186
“a trifle unbalanced”:
George Miller Dyott to Arthur R. Hinks, June 24, 1927, RGS.

186
“scientific maniac”:
Stanley Allen,
New Haven Register,
n.d., RGS.

186
“mental storms”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Obsession.”

186
“The Mining Syndicate”:
Fawcett to Large, Oct. 19, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.

186
“It seemed as”:
Jack Fawcett to Windust, Dec. 2, 1924, PHFP.

187
“A short time”:
Jack Fawcett to Windust, Oct. 28, 1924, PHFP.

187
“The capacity for love”:
Fay Brodie-Junes to Nina Fawcett, n.d., Fawcett Family Papers.

187
“the Gods will”:
Fawcett to Large, Oct. 19, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.

188
“a supply of bombs”:
New York Times,
Oct. 4, 1924.

188
“the whole method”:
New York Times,
Aug. 12, 1924.

188
“highly respectable man”:
Fawcett to Hinks, Dec. 23, 1924, RGS.

188
“to get into touch”:
Jack Fawcett to Windust, Oct. 28, 1924, PHFP.

189
“the finest exploration”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 4, 1925, RGS.

189
“We have known”:
Atlanta Constitution,
Jan. 12, 1925.

190
“I judge from Lynch's”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 4, 1924, RGS.

190
“a modern Columbus”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Oct. 10, 1924, RGS.

190
“The R.G.S. bred me”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 2, 1924, RGS.

190
“If they don't”:
Nina Fawcett to Large, March 31, 1927, Fawcett Family Papers.

190
“Not a sum”:
Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.

190
“In some ways”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 4, 1925, RGS.

190
“a fine young fellow”:
Reeves,
Recollections of a Geographer,
p. 98.

190
“I shall rejoice”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 10, 1924, RGS.

191
“In two years' time”:
Fawcett,
Ruins in the Sky,
p. 46.

191
“[He] succumbed”:
Fawcett to Hinks, Dec. 23, 1924, RGS.

191
“must have suffered”:
Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.

191
“the plan can”:
Isaiah Bowman to Rockefeller, Jan. 3, 1925, AGS.

192
“He did precipitate”:
Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.

192
“I am a great believer”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 25, 1924, RGS.

192
“the honour of immortality”:
Fawcett to Bowman, Dec. 15, 1924, AGS.

CHAPTER 19: AN UNEXPECTED CLUE

194
In 2004:
New York Times,
Dec. 29, 2006.

196
Although he made:
Nina Fawcett to Arthur R. Hinks, Nov. 17, 1927, RGS.

196
“would preserve a higher”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Proposal for a S. American Expedition,” April 4, 1924, RGS.

197
“At least forty million”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 278.

197
“No Olympic games”:
Los Angeles Times,
Jan. 28, 1925.

197
“Aren't the reports”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 280.

197
Brazilian authorities:
Fawcett to John Scott Keltie, Feb. 4, 1925, RGS.

198
“They do not want”:
Ibid.

198
“We have met”:
Fawcett to Keltie, March 7, 1925, RGS.

198
the daughter of:
Williams, introduction to
AmaZonia,
p. 22.

198
“I became acquainted”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 279.

198
“[The colonel] and Jack”:
Ibid.

198
“[Raleigh] is much”:
Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

198
“I suppose after”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 279.

198
“I don't intend”:
Ibid.

199
“A whole lot”:
Ibid., p. 281.

199
“A snake-bite which bleeds”:
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 3, 1925. According to snake experts today, it is actually not possible to determine if a snake is poisonous simply based on whether the wound bleeds.

199
“I saw some quite”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 279.

199
“The lavatory”:
Ibid., p. 281.

200
“I am now”:
Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers. 200
“Raleigh is a funny”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 283.

200
“a desperate villain”:
Ibid., p. 281.

200
“On Wednesday night”:
Ibid., p. 282.

201
“almost big enough”:
Raleigh Rimell to Dulcie Rimell, March 11, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

201
“Cuyaba will seem”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 281.

201
“Daddy says”:
Ibid., p. 282.

201
“a God forsaken hole”:
Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

201
Fawcett wrote:
Fawcett to Harold Large, March 20, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

201
“Raleigh's feet”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 284.

201
“[What] a hell”:
Ibid., p. 283.

201
Raleigh boasted that:
Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

202
“We are feeding”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 283.

202
“We intend to buy”:
Ibid., p. 280.

202
“The horses being”:
Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

203
“This is nothing”:
Los Angeles Times,
April 23, 1925.

203
“I have seen no reason”:
Fawcett to Nina, March 6, 1925, RGS.

203
“Progress slow”:
Royal Geographical Society, “Dr. Hamilton Rice on the Rio Branco,” p. 241.

204
“If not over”:
Stevens, “Hydroplane of the Hamilton Rice Expedition,” pp. 42– 43. Interestingly, in 1932, Stevens, while flying in a hot-air balloon, became the first photographer to capture the moon's shadow on the earth during a solar eclipse. In 1935, he also broke the world record for the highest ascent in a balloon—a record that wouldn't be surpassed for another twenty-one years.

205
“The palms below”:
Ibid., pp. 35–36.

205
“the congratulations”:
Royal Geographical Society, “Dr. Hamilton Rice on the Rio Branco,” p. 241.

205
“Those regions”:
New York Times,
Aug. 24, 1924.

205
“The Brazilian jungle”:
New York Times,
July 11, 1925.

205
“communication by radio”:
Royal Geographical Society, “Dr. Hamilton Rice on the Rio Branco,” p. 241. 205
“Whether it is”:
Ibid.

205
“[A prospector] and”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 284.

206
“into a world”:
Ahrens to Nina Fawcett, July 10, 1925, RGS.

206
“an excellent initiation”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 289.

206
“fish were literally”:
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 1, 1925.

206
“Daddy had gone”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 286.

206
“[Jack] has evidently”:
Large to Nina Fawcett, May 24, 1929, Fawcett Family Papers.

208
“My father chose”:
Los Angeles Times,
July 17, 1927.

208
“the tickiest place”:
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 1, 1925.

208
“It is a saying”:
Fawcett to Nina, May 20, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

208
“in spite of”:
Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

209
“I think you”:
Nina Fawcett to Large, Aug. 30, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

209
Galvão had pushed:
For details on Galvão, see Leal,
Coronel Fawcett.

209
“It was quite”:
Translation and extract from the newspaper
O Democrata,
n.d., RGS.

209
“considerable danger”:
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 1, 1925.

210
“a pinprick”:
John James Whitehead diary, June 8, 1928, RGS.

210
“the Brazilian methods”:
Fawcett to Isaiah Bowman, May 20, 1925, NMAI.

210
“The Bakairís have been”:
American Geographical Society, “Correspondence,” p. 696.

210
“They have in part”:
Fawcett to Bowman, May 20, 1925, NMAI.

210
“They say the Bacairys”:
Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 19, 1925, RGS.

210
“We have all clipped”:
Ibid.

211
“about eight wild”:
Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

211
“To Jack's great delight”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 290.

211
“We gave them”:
Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

211
“They are small”:
Ibid.

211
“music was”:
Nina Fawcett to the Brazilian ambassador, Feb. 3, 1937, RGS.

211
“I have never”:
Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 19, 1925, RGS.

211
“absolutely unexplored”:
Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

211
“Years tell”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 291.

212
“The Fawcetts can”:
Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 17, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

212
“That's too deep”:
Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 19, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

212
“I wish [Raleigh]”:
Ibid.

212
“I wish to
hell”:
Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 17, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

212
“sense of inferiority”:
Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

213
“witnessed throughout”:
Hemming,
Die If You Must,
p. 140.

213
“lot of stick-throwers”:
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 2, 1925.

213
In the late eighteenth century:
For information about the Xavante and the Kayapós, see Hemming,
Die If You Must,
pp. 86–132.

213
“from that time”:
Quoted in ibid., p. 95.

213
“It is obviously”:
Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.

214
“I believe our”:
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 2, 1925.