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79
“the great dangers”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Explorations in Bolivia,” p. 515.

79
“He could smell”:
Ibid., p. 64.

80
“He has his choice”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 4, p. 91.

80
“the most ferocious”:
Theodore Roosevelt,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness,
p. 40.

80
“there was an unpleasant”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 131.

80
In addition to piranhas:
For descriptions of the animals and insects of the Amazon, see Forsyth and Miyata,
Tropical Nature;
Cutright,
Great Naturalists Explore South America;
Kricher,
Neotropical Companion;
and Millard,
River of Doubt.

80
The German explorer-scientist:
Humboldt,
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America,
pp. 112–16.

81
“One shock is sufficient”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 50.

81
“carry no hope”:
Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 3, p. 498.

81
“It was one”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 84.

82
“We lived simply”:
Costin to daughter Mary, Nov. 10, 1946, Costin Family Papers. 82
“Inactivity was what”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 94.

82
“Monkeys are looked”:
Ibid., p. 47.

82
“is against man”:
Ibid.

83
“[Mosquitoes] constitute”:
Price,
Amazing Amazon,
p. 138.

83
“The piums settled”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 59.

83
“The
Tabana
came singly”:
Ibid., p. 49.

83
“Attacked in hammocks”:
Ernest Holt diary, Oct. 20, 1920, ADAH.

84
according to one estimate:
Millard,
River of Doubt,
p. 250.

85
“a couple of crossed”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 89.

85
“When [the Kanichana]”:
Métraux,
Native Tribes of Eastern Bolivia and Western Matto Grosso,
p. 80.

85
“The head and the intestines”:
Clastres, “Guayaki Cannibalism,” pp. 313–15.

86
“court assassination”:
C. Reginald Enock, letter to the editor,
Geographical Journal,
April 19, 1911, RGS.

87
“It was trying”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 73.

87
“Their bodies [were] painted”:
Ibid., p. 87.

87
“One ripped through”:
Ibid.

87
“I had observed”:
Ibid., p. 83.

87
Still, two of the men:
Fawcett, “Explorations in Bolivia,” p. 523.

87
“I was tempted”:
Ibid., p. 43.

87
“Unless he had”:
Keltie to Nina Fawcett, Dec. 1, 1913, RGS.

88
“the healthy person”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 55.

91
“professional burglar”:
Malcolm,
Silent Woman,
p. 9.

92
Many of the diaries:
Quotations from diaries and logbooks come from the private papers of the Fawcett family.

94
“Are you game?”:
See Percy Harrison Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
pp. 116–22. For further information on the journey, see Fawcett's “Explorations in Bolivia” and his four-part series “In the Heart of South America.”

95
“When … the enterprising traveler”:
Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 2, p. 491.

95
“Time and the foot”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 122.

95
Conan Doyle reportedly:
Doyle, notes to
Lost World,
p. 195. The other place commonly said to have inspired the novel's setting is Mount Roraima in Venezuela.

95
“What'll we do”:
For details of their conversation, see Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
pp. 120–21.

96
“Starvation sounds almost”:
Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 3, p. 549.

97
“The rain forest”:
Millard,
River of Doubt,
p. 148.

97
“the aquatic equivalents”:
Forsyth and Miyata,
Tropical Nature,
p. 93.

97
Nearly a month after:
Thirty-eight years later, it was revealed that Fawcett and his men had actually been several miles from the principal source. Brian Fawcett noted that “my father would have been bitterly disappointed.”

98
“How long could”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 122.

98
“The voices of”:
Ibid., p. 121.

98
“Starvation blunts one's”:
Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 4, p. 89.

98
“[An ambush], in spite”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 110.

98
“For God's sake”:
Ibid., p. 124.

101
“the most remarkable”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Case for an Expedition in the Amazon Basin” (proposal), April 13, 1924, RGS.

101
“This area represents”:
Ibid.

101
“get the survivors”:
Ibid.

CHAPTER 12: IN THE HANDS OF THE GODS

102
“glorious prospect”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 108.

102
“I wanted to forget”:
Ibid., pp. 108–9.

103
“Deep down”:
Ibid., p. 109.

103
“prison gate”:
Ibid., p. 138.

103
“a very uncertain”:
Nina Fawcett to Joan, Jan. 24, 1946, Fawcett Family Papers.

103
“subject my wife”:
Fawcett to John Scott Keltie, Oct. 3, 1911, RGS.

103
He had once shown:
Nina Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 6, 1946, Fawcett Family Papers.

103
“I felt relieved”:
Williams, introduction to
AmaZonia,
p. 24.

104
“riotous democracy”:
Brian Fawcett to Nina, Dec. 5, 1933, Fawcett Family Papers.

104
“They have had”:
Nina Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 30, 1913, RGS.

104
“I, personally, am”:
Nina Fawcett to Harold Large, April 12, 1926, Fawcett Family Papers.

104
She learned how:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 16.

104
“interesting to those”:
Nina Fawcett, “The Transadine Railway,” n.d., RGS.

104
“equality … between man”:
Nina Fawcett to Large, Dec. 6, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.

“Some day perhaps”:
Nina Fawcett to Keltie, Jan. 6, 1911, RGS.

“Daddy gave us”:
Williams, introduction to
AmaZonia,
p. 30.

105
“By the look of it”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Gold Bricks at Badulla,” p. 234.

105
“the real apple”:
Author's interview with Fawcett's granddaughter.

105
“Never forget us”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Jack Going to School,” 1910, Faw cett Family Papers.

106
“A leader of men”:
Fawcett to Nina Fawcett, April 12, 1910, Fawcett Family Papers.

106
“He was probably”:
Stanley Allen,
New Haven Register,
n.d., RGS.

106
“I have for years”:
Barclay to David George Hogarth, Sept. 1, 1927, RGS.

106
60 percent of:
Larson,
Thunderstruck,
p. 271.

106
“a
disease
bred”:
Edward Douglas Fawcett,
Hartmann the Anarchist,
p. 27.

106
“Of the Houses”:
Ibid., p. 147.

107
“ ‘The lure of ”:
Quotations from newspaper articles found in Fawcett's scrap-book, Fawcett Family Papers.

107
“regions which have”:
Suarez, Lembcke, and Fawcett, “Further Explorations in Bolivia,” p. 397.

107
“a great seeker”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 24, 1910, RGS.

107
“What I hope”:
Suarez, Lembcke, and Fawcett, “Further Explorations in Bolivia,” pp. 396–97.

108
“I must tell you”:
Ibid.

108
“I am a rapid”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 5, 1914, RGS.

108
“He was fever-proof”:
Thomas Charles Bridges,
Pictorial Weekly,
n.d.

108
“a virtual immunity”:
Furneaux,
Amazon,
p. 214.

108
“perfect constitution”:
Fawcett to Keltie, March 10, 1910, RGS.

108
“What amazed me”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 178.

109
“the conviction that”:
Barclay to David George Hogarth, Sept. 1, 1927, RGS.

109
“I am in the hands”:
Fawcett to Esther Windust, March 24, 1923, PHFP.

109
“prepared to travel”:
“Colonel Fawcett's Expedition in Matto Grosso,”
Geographi-
cal Journal,
Feb. 1928, p. 176.

109
“By the way”:
Nina Fawcett to Keltie, Oct. 9, 1921, RGS.

109
“Such journeys”:
Fawcett to Keltie, March 2, 1912, RGS.

109
“hopeless rotter”:
From scrapbook, Fawcett Family Papers.

109
“Why he would not”:
Dyott,
Man Hunting in the Jungle,
p. 120.

109
“The strain has”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Bolivian Exploration, 1913–1914” (proposal), n.d., RGS.

110
“I have no mercy”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 24, 1913, RGS. 110
“I am very glad”:
Keltie to Fawcett, Jan. 29, 1914, RGS.

110
Born in Glasgow:
For details about Murray, see Riffenburgh,
Nimrod;
Niven,
Ice Master;
“Captain Bartlett Has No Views,”
Washington Post,
July 6, 1914; Shackleton,
Heart of the Antarctic;
and Murray and Marston,
Antarctic Days.

110
“Pulling, you are”:
Murray and Marston,
Antarctic Days,
p. 88.

111
“He is an admirable man”:
Fawcett to Keltie, Oct. 3, 1911, RGS.

111
“I had had rheumatism”:
Murray and Marston, introduction to
Antarctic Days,
p. xvi.

111
“barren regions”:
Fawcett, letter to the editor,
Travel,
n.d., RGS.

112
“A tough bugger”:
Author's interview with Michael Costin. 112
“It's impossible”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 144.

112
“Several mules with”:
James Murray diary, Oct. 2, 1911, NLS.

112
“We were all”:
Costin to daughter Mary, Nov. 10, 1946, Costin Family Papers.

113
“We awoke to find”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 150.

113
“Surely an iron-bound”:
Ernest Holt diary, Nov. 10, 1920, ADAH.

113
“The animals themselves”:
Rice, “Further Explorations in the North-West Amazon Basin,” p. 148.

113
“My strength quite”:
For this quotation and all others from Murray on the 1911 expedition, see his diary, part of the William Laird McKinlay Collection at the National Library of Scotland.

115
“I thought that”:
Holt diary, Nov. 22, 1920, ADAH.

116
As Costin warned:
Costin to daughter Mary, Nov. 10, 1946, Costin Family Papers.

117
“greatest cruelty that faithless”:
Quoted in Hemming,
Search for El Dorado,
p. 114.

117
“Every party”:
Mrs. Letheran to Fawcett, Oct. 30, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers. 117
“the motive power”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Occult Life,” p. 93.

117
“There is no disgrace”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 163.

117
“Civilization has”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Renegades from Civilization,” n.d., Fawcett Family Papers.

118
“On such an expedition”:
Theodore Roosevelt,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness,
p. 303.

118
“It develops into”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 60.

119
“Being unarmed”:
Costin,
Daily Chronicle
(London), Aug. 27, 1928.

120
“By this time”:
Fawcett,
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 169.

121
“I will not detail”:
Costin,
Daily Chronicle
(London), Aug. 27, 1928.

121
“You know that”:
Murray diary, Nov. 17, 1911, NLS.