111 “I had had rheumatism”: Murray and Marston, introduction to
111 “barren regions”: Fawcett, letter to the editor,
112 “A tough bugger”: Author’s interview with Michael Costin.
112 “It’s impossible”: Fawcett,
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,
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,
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,
117 “Civilization has”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Renegades from Civilization,” n.d., Fawcett Family Papers.
118 “On such an expedition”: Theodore Roosevelt,
118 “It develops into”: Fawcett,
119 “Being unarmed”: Costin,
120 “By this time”: Fawcett,
121 “I will not detail”: Costin,
121 “You know that”: Murray diary, Nov. 17, 1911, NLS.
121 “Murray is”: Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 31, 1911, RGS.
123 “I understand that”: Keltie to Fawcett, June 11, 1912, RGS.
123 “Everything that could”: Fawcett to Keltie, March 2, 1912, RGS.
123 “did not neglect”: Keltie to Hugh Mill, March 1, 1912, RGS.
123 “I am sure”: Keltie to Fawcett, June 1, 1912, RGS.
123 “So far they”: Fawcett to Keltie, May 10, 1912, RGS.
124 “What a dreadful”: Keltie to Fawcett, March 7, 1912, RGS.
124 “It’s hell”: Fawcett,
124 “He and Costin”: Ibid., p. 154.
124 in June 1913: On Murray’s disappearance, see Niven,
129 In 1910: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Further Explorations in Bolivia,” p. 387.
129 “The moment”: Carvajal,
129 “Retire! Retire!”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 3, p. 552.
130 “One of these”: Costin to daughter Mary, n.d., Costin Family Papers.
130 Over the years: Costin’s and Fawcett’s recollections differ in some minor details.
130 Fawcett, for instance, remembered one of his colleagues eventually taking him across the river in a canoe.
130 “The Major made”: Costin to daughter Mary, n.d., Costin Family Papers.
130 “On climbing the opposite”: Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 3, p. 552.
130 “[Fawcett] disappeared”: Costin to daughter Mary, n.d., Costin Family Papers.
131 “[They] helped us”: Fawcett, “Further Explorations in Bolivia,” p. 388.
131 “The men are”: Ibid.
131 “After a few minutes”: Costin to daughter Mary, n.d., Costin Family Papers.
131 “a most intelligent”: Fawcett, “Further Explorations in Bolivia,” p. 388.
131 “There are problems”: Fawcett to RGS, Oct. 15, 1909, RGS.
132 “Without any hesitation”: Costin to daughter Mary, Nov. 10, 1946, Costin Family Papers.
132 “Whenever he came”: Costin,
132 “I know, from persons”: Suarez, Lembcke, and Fawcett, “Further Explorations in Bolivia,” p. 397.
132 “standing deliberately”: Nina to Keltie, 1909, RGS.
133 “His encounter with”: Nina Fawcett to John Scott Keltie, Jan. 11, 1911, RGS.
133 There was, however: Costin,
133 “He did not wish”: Ibid.
133 “we could see”: Ibid.
134 “Food problems”: Percy Harrison Fawcett,
134 “[The Echojas] would”: Ibid., p. 149.
134 “I sucked, whistled”: Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 2, p. 495.
134 “With illness and disease”: Fawcett,
135 “In 99 cases”: Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 4, p. 92.
135 Though some of the first: For details on the first encounter between Native Americans and Europeans and on the Las Casas and Sepulveda debate, see Huddleston,
135 “The Spanish have”: Quoted in Columbia University,
135 “Are these not men?”: Quoted in Pagden,
135 “pretending to be”: Las Casas,
135 “the simplest people”: Ibid., pp. 9-10.
