95 “Time and the foot”: Fawcett,
95 Conan Doyle reportedly: Doyle, notes to
95 “What’ll we do”: For details of their conversation, see Fawcett,
96 “Starvation sounds almost”: Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 3, p. 549.
97 “The rain forest”: Millard,
97 “the aquatic equivalents”: Forsyth and Miyata,
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,
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,
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.
102 “glorious prospect”: Percy Harrison Fawcett,
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
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,
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
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,
106 “I have for years”: Barclay to David George Hogarth, Sept. 1, 1927, RGS.
106 60 percent of: Larson,
106 “a
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,
108 “a virtual immunity”: Furneaux,
108 “perfect constitution”: Fawcett to Keltie, March 10, 1910, RGS.
108 “What amazed me”: Fawcett,
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,”
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,
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,
110 “Pulling, you are”: Murray and Marston,
111 “He is an admirable man”: Fawcett to Keltie, Oct. 3, 1911, RGS.
