53 “What you can”: Quoted in Kennedy,
54 “who sit in carpet slippers”: Ibid., p. 103.
54 “B is one of those men”: Ibid., p. 169.
54 “gladiatorial exhibition”: Ibid., p. 124.
54 “By God, he’s killed”: Quoted in Moorehead,
54 A cousin of Charles Darwin’s: See Gillham,
55 “no man expressed”: Quoted in Pickover,
55 “A passion for travel”: Ibid., p. 118.
55 “from north and south”: Quoted in Driver,
56 “So great is the heat”: Quoted in Cameron,
57 “There is very little”: Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 14, 1921, RGS.
58 It was February 4, 1900: The date was identified in a 1901 letter from the War Of fice to the secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, while the location of the hotel was mentioned in Reeves’s
58 Billboard men: For descriptions of London at the turn of the century, see Cook,
59 On the corner: For details about the RGS building on Savile Row, see Mill,
59 In his late thirties: My descriptions of Reeves and his course are drawn largely from his memoir,
60 “How well I”: Reeves,
60 “He had an innate”: Francis Younghusband, foreword to ibid., p. 11.
60 “the society of men”: Galton,
60 “If you could blindfold”: Reeves,
61 “He was extremely”: Reeves,
61 what the Greeks called: Bergreen,
61 There were two principal: For further information about the role that these manu als played in shaping Victorian attitudes, see Driver,
61 “It is a loss”: Freshfield and Wharton,
61 “Remember that”: Ibid., p. 5.
“Had we lived”:
62 In 1896, Great Britain: McNiven and Russell,
62 “savages, barbarians”: Freshfield and Wharton,
62 “the prejudices with”: Ibid., pp. 445-46.
62 “it is established”: Ibid., p. 422.
62 As with mapping: Information on the “tools” used by early anthropologists is derived largely from the 1893 edition of
62 “Where practicable”: Freshfield and Wharton,
62 “It is hardly safe”: Ibid.
62 “emotions are differently”: Ibid., p. 422.
63 “Notwithstanding his inveterate”: Ibid., p. 58.
63 “We, the undersigned”: Ibid., p. 6.
63 “Promote merriment”: Ibid., p. 309.
63 “A frank, joking”: Ibid., p. 308.
63 “constantly pushing and pulling”: Ibid., p. 17.
64 “Use soap-suds”: Ibid., p. 18.
64 “Afterwards burn out”: Ibid., p. 21.
64 “Pour boiling grease”: Ibid., p. 20.
64 “This can be done”: Ibid., p. 225.
64 “To prepare them”: Ibid., p. 201.
64 “take your knife”: Ibid., p. 317.
65 “If a man be lost”: Ibid., p. 321.
65 “Choose a well-marked”: Ibid.
65 “with great credit”: Ibid., p. 96.
65 “The R.G.S. bred me”: Fawcett to John Scott Keltie, Nov. 2, 1924, RGS.
67 “There were the Prudent”: Fleming,
68 More feared than piranhas: Millard,
69 “Many deaths result”: Percy Harrison Fawcett,
70 “ hush-hush”: Brian Fawcett to Brigadier F. Percy Roe, March 15, 1977, RGS.
71 It was the perfect: Details of Fawcett’s time working for the British Intelligence Office are drawn from his Morocco diary, 1901, Fawcett Family Papers.
71 “nature of trails”: Ibid.
71 In the nineteenth century: See Hefferman, “Geography, Cartography, and Military Intelligence,” pp. 505-6.
71 British authorities transformed: My information on the Survey of India Depart ment and its spies comes primarily from Hopkirk’s books
72 “some sort of Moorish”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Journey to Morocco City,” p. 190.
72 “The Sultan is”: Fawcett, Morocco diary.
72 In early 1906: Percy Harrison Fawcett,
72 Famous for his keen: See Flint,
