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214
“I suspect constitutional”:
Fawcett to Nina, May 29, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

214
“By the time”:
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 1, 1925.

214
“I shall look”:
Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers. 214
“You need have”:
Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 291.

217
“ruined architecture”:
Rice, “Rio Branco, Uraricuera, and Parima,” p. 218.

218
“I don't feel”:
New York Times,
Sept. 17, 2003.

218
“the highest concentration”:
Economist,
July 24, 2004.

218
On February 12:
See
New York Times,
May 16, 2007;
Baltimore Sun,
March 14, 2005; and
Dayton Daily News,
Aug. 14, 2007.

219
But I soon discovered:
My account of Petersen's death is based on my interviews with Eduardo Neves and on newspaper accounts.

221
“Fawcett's dream”:
Verne,
Bob Moran and the Fawcett Mystery,
p. 76.

221
“I'm an archeologist”:
MacGregor,
Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils,
p. 58.

222
“My son, lame”:
Ibid., p. 2.

225
“Any day now”:
Los Angeles Times,
July 17, 1927.

225
“I believe firmly”:
Los Angeles Times,
Jan. 1, 1928.

225
“I think it”:
Nina Fawcett to Arthur R. Hinks, July 11, 1927, RGS.

225
“Mother! I feel”:
Nina Fawcett to Harold Large, Nov. 23, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

226
“Father has got”:
Los Angeles Times,
July 17, 1927.

226
“Have they been”:
Ibid.

226
Several decades later:
Cowell,
Tribe That Hides from Man,
p. 93.

226
“Explorer Called Dupe”:
Washington Post,
Sept. 12, 1927.

226
“escape from”:
Independent,
Sept. 24, 1927.

226
“described Daddy exactly”:
Brian Fawcett to Nina, Sept. 23, 1927, RGS.

226
“I was boiling”:
Nina Fawcett to Hinks, Oct. 24, 1927, RGS.

226
“As the story grew”:
Nina Fawcett to Courteville, Aug. 1, 1928, RGS.

227
“One cannot tell”:
Los Angeles Times,
July 17, 1927.

227
“No better man”:
Ibid.

227
“we hold ourselves”:
D. G. Hogarth, “Address at the Anniversary General Meeting, 20 June 1927,”
Geographical Journal,
Aug. 1927, p. 100.

227
“I am thirty-six years”:
R. Bock to D. G. Hogarth, June 21, 1927, RGS.

227
“I am prepared”:
Robert Bunio to Hogarth, June 21, 1927, RGS.

227
“My wife and I”:
Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 27, 1927.

228
“whether there is”:
Ibid.

228
“We consider that”:
Geoffrey Steele-Ronan to Hogarth, June 21, 1927, RGS.

228
“romantic story”:
St. Clair,
Mighty, Mighty Amazon,
p. 254.

228
To succeed, Dyott:
Los Angeles Times,
Jan. 28, 1929.

229
“camped in some”:
Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 6, 1927.

229
“supreme courage”:
Ibid.

229
“A big
man”:
Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 13, 1927.

229
“They have come”:
Los Angeles Times,
Dec. 14, 1927.

229
“There are applicants”:
Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 27, 1927.

229
“Perhaps if there”:
Independent,
Dec. 3, 1927.

230
“I am
most
anxious”:
Roger Rimell to RGS, 1933, RGS.

230
“I know of no”:
Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 17, 1927.

230
“I can't take”:
Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 27, 1927.

230
“creature comforts”:
Ibid.

230
“a display of unselfish”:
Los Angeles Times,
March 28, 1928.

230
“fills me with”:
Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 17, 1927.

230
“On behalf of”:
John James Whitehead diary, March 1, 1928, RGS.

231
“Cecil B. DeMille safari”:
Kigar, “Phantom Trail of Colonel Fawcett,” p. 21.

231
“the dregs of civilization”:
Dyott,
Man Hunting in the Jungle,
p. 85.

231
“Fawcett's trail loomed”:
Ibid., p. 135.

231
“How different would”:
Whitehead diary, May 28, 1928, RGS.

231
“I first heard”:
McIntyre, “The Commander and the Mystic,” p. 5.

232
“We came across”:
Los Angeles Times,
Aug. 18, 1928.

232
“These new denizens”:
Dyott,
Man Hunting in the Jungle,
p. 173.

232
“He regarded us”:
Ibid., p. 177.

232
“We cannot predict”:
Whitehead diary, July 24, 1928, RGS.

233
“The finger of guilt”:
Dyott,
Man Hunting in the Jungle,
p. 236.

233
“I am so afraid”:
Los Angeles Times,
Aug. 16, 1928.

233
“couldn't eat”:
Whitehead diary, Aug. 12, 1928, RGS.

233
“Remember,” Dyott:
Ibid., July 25, 1928.

234
“Natives from tribes”:
Stanley Allen,
New Haven Register,
n.d., RGS.

234
“Am sorry to report”:
Dyott to NANA (radio dispatch), Aug. 16, 1928, RGS.

234
“We want to”:
Whitehead diary, Sept. 28, 1928, RGS.

234
“You can be”:
Chicago Daily Tribune,
March 19, 1930.

235
“Indian psychology”:
Dyott,
Man Hunting in the Jungle,
p. 264.

235
“Dyott … must have”:
Brian Fawcett,
Ruins in the Sky,
p. 71.

235
“There is consequently”:
Nina Fawcett to NANA, Aug. 23, 1928, RGS.

235
“never give up”:
Los Angeles Times,
Aug. 22, 1928.

235
“Do not lose”:
Esther Windust to Elsie Rimell, Dec. 14, 1928, PHFP.

236
“all hope of”:
Abbott to Charles Goodwin, March 22, 1932, FO 743/16, TNA.

236
“My name is Stefan”:
Translated statement of Stefan Rattin, prepared by Charles Goodwin and sent to Sir William Seeds, March 18, 1932, FO 743/17, TNA.

236
“only known to me”:
Abbott to Hinks, Dec. 8, 1932, RGS.

236
“dare not build my”:
H. Kingsley Long, “The Faith of Mrs. Fawcett,”
Passing
Show,
Nov. 12, 1932.

236
“I promised Colonel”:
Chicago Daily Tribune,
March 20, 1932.

236
“Rattin is anxious”:
Washington Post,
May 28, 1932.

237
“given up the imitation”:
Washington Post,
Sept. 30, 1934.

237
“Albert Winton, Los Angeles”:
Los Angeles Times,
Feb. 4, 1934.

237
“this grave turn”:
George W. Cumbler to British Consulate Office, Oct. 17, 1934, RGS.

237
Only years later:
Hemming,
Die If You Must,
p. 700.

238
“The Indians are going”:
New York Times,
Aug. 12, 1939.

238
“I tried to save”:
O Globo,
Aug. 23, 1946.

238
In 1947:
See Childress,
Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America,
pp. 303–5.

239
“You have always”:
Hinks to Nina Fawcett, Oct. 25, 1928, RGS.

239
“more than one passport”:
Nina Fawcett to A. Bain Mackie, June 20, 1935, RGS.

239
“My heart is lacerated”:
Nina Fawcett to Large, May 6, 1929, Fawcett Family Papers.

240
“Lady Fawcett is suffering”:
A. Bachmann to Hinks, Feb. 12, 1934, RGS.

240
“so that they shall”:
Nina Fawcett to Large, Fawcett Family Papers.

240
“I shall act on”:
Edward Douglas Fawcett to Hinks, 1933, RGS.

240
“I am one”:
Nina Fawcett to Thomas Roch, March 10, 1934, RGS.

240
Large referred to:
Large to Nina Fawcett, April 16, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

240
“The return of her”:
Mackie to Goodwin, Nov. 21, 1933, TNA.

240
“I get the impression”:
Nina Fawcett to Reverend Monseigneur Couturon, July 3, 1933, RGS.

241
“the most primitive”:
Moennich,
Pioneering for Christ in Xingu Jungles,
p. 9.

241
In 1937:
Ibid., pp. 17–18.

241
“In his dual nature”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, epilogue to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. 301.

241
“not only to learn”:
Moennich,
Pioneering for Christ in Xingu Jungles,
pp. 124–26.

241
“perhaps the most famous”:
New York Times,
Jan. 6, 1935.

241
a “freak”:
“The ‘Grandson,' ”
Time,
Jan. 24, 1944.

241
“matters are rather”:
Hinks to Morel, Feb. 16, 1944, RGS.

242
When they examined:
Fawcett,
Ruins in the Sky,
p. 123.

242
“living specimens”:
Marsh, “Blond Indians of the Darien Jungle,” p. 483.

242
“They are golden”:
Los Angeles Times,
June 15, 1924.

242
“Feel the girl's neck”:
New York Times,
July 9, 1924.

242
“relic of the Paleolithic”:
New York Times,
July 7, 1924.

242
“closer to nature”:
Washington Post,
Oct. 16, 1924.

243
“no home”:
Nina Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 6, 1946, Fawcett Family Papers.

243
“You've been”:
Brian Fawcett to Nina, Dec. 5, 1933, Fawcett Family Papers.

243
“it means certain”:
Everild Young to Colonel Kirwan, Sept. 24, 1946, RGS.

249
“The whole”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Proposal for a S. American Expedition” (proposal), April 4, 1924, RGS.

249
“There is reason”:
Dyott,
Manhunting in the Jungle,
p. 224.

250
“Everywhere he went”:
Villas Boas and Villas Boas,
Xingu,
p. 165.

252
“Up that way”:
In 1998, Vajuvi told a similar story to the British adventurer Benedict Allen, who made a film about his journey for the BBC entitled
The Bones of Colonel Fawcett.

253
“The upper jaw”:
“Report on the Human Remains from Brazil,” 1951, RAI.

255
“One of them”:
Basso,
Last Cannibals,
pp. 78–86.

256
“Are you alive”:
Esther Windust to Nina Fawcett, Oct. 10, 1928, PHFP.

256
“We shall see”:
Mrs. Mullins to Nina Fawcett, Feb. 9, 1928, Fawcett Family Papers.

256
“Her life flows”:
Edward Douglas Fawcett to Arthur R. Hinks, 1933.

257
Toward the end:
Reeves,
Recollections of a Geographer,
pp. 198–99. 257
In the early 1940s:
Leal,
Coronel Fawcett,
pp. 213–15.

257
In 1949:
Cummins,
Fate of Colonel Fawcett,
p. 143.

257
“ Pain—stop pain”:
Ibid., p. 58.

257
“The voices and sounds”:
Ibid., p. 111.

257
“I really don't”:
Brian Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 3, 1945, Fawcett Family Papers.

257
“Have you really”:
Nina Fawcett to Joan, April 22, 1942, Fawcett Family Papers.

257
“In a way”:
Brian Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 3, 1945, Fawcett Family Papers.

258
“The time has come”:
Brian Fawcett,
Ruins in the Sky,
p. 124.

258
“wild, despairing”:
Brian Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 3, 1945, Fawcett Family Papers. 258
“the pathetic relics”:
Percy Harrison Fawcett, introduction to
Exploration Fawcett,
p. xiii.

258
“I feel that”:
Brian Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 3, 1945, Fawcett Family Papers.