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162 “So you can imagine”: Nina Fawcett to Keltie, April 25, 1916, RGS.

163 “If you only knew”: Fawcett to Edward A. Reeves, Feb. 5, 1915, RGS.

163 A bulletin: “Monthly Record,” Geographical Journal, Oct. 1916, p. 354.

163 “the dream of his life”: Nina Fawcett to Keltie, March 11, 1916, RGS.

163 “I possess the medal”: Fawcett to Keltie, Jan. 15, 1920, RGS.

164 It was the Battle: For descriptions of the war, see Gilbert, Somme; Ellis, Eye-Deep in Hell; Winter, Death’s Men; and Hart, Somme.

164 “at least provides”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 66.

164 “Tell me”: Huntford, Shackleton, p. 599.

165 “Dante would never”: Cecil Eric Lewis Lyne diary, RAHT.

165 “burnt up”: Ellis, Eye-Deep in Hell, pp. 66-67.

165 “He was troubled”: Nina Fawcett to Keltie, March 3, 1917, RGS.

165 The war had claimed: Mill, Record of the Royal Geographical Society, p. 204.

165 “He was a good fellow”: Fawcett to Keltie, n.d., 1917, RGS.

165 “of purely unselfish”: Davson, History of the 35th Division, p. 43.

165 “If you can imagine”: “British Colonel in Letter Here Tells of Enormous Slaughter,” in Fawcett’s scrapbook, n.d., n.p., Fawcett Family Papers.

166 “Is that you, boy?”: Stashower, Teller of Tales, p. 346.

166 “She loved you so”: Fawcett to Doyle, March 26, 1919, HRC.

167 “He and his intelligence”: Hemming, “My Story.” Henry Harold Hemming was also the father of John Hemming, the celebrated historian who later became the director of the Royal Geographical Society.

167 Or, as he told: Fawcett to Doyle, March 26, 1919, HRC.

167 “many times in France”: Washington Post, March 18, 1934.

168 “full of the hidden”: Letter to the editor, Times (London), July 4, 1936.

168 “It is a little”: Keltie to Fawcett, April 7, 1915, RGS.

168 “I am getting older”: Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 23, 1918, RGS.

168 “Knowing what these”: Fawcett, letter to the editor, Travel, 1918.

168 “the whole business”: Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 23, 1918, RGS.

168 “Many thousands must”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 209.

168 “now quite an inch”: Nina Fawcett to Large, May 19, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers.

168 “We all went”: Ibid.

169 “I had a ripping”: Jack Fawcett to Large, Oct. 2, 1924, Fawcett Family Papers.

169 “able and willing”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 277.

169 “This is mine”: Ibid.

169 “At school it was”: Ibid.

169 “hidden feeling”: Nina Fawcett to Joan, Dec. 14, 1952, Fawcett Family Papers.

169 “no favourites”: Brian Fawcett to Nina, Dec. 5, 1933, Fawcett Family Papers.

170 “My elder brother”: Brian Fawcett to Brigadier F. Percy Roe, March 15, 1977, RGS.

171 “the general practitioner”: Dyott, On the Trail of the Unknown, p. 141.

171 “I cannot induce”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 260.

171 “one of the world’s”: Schurz, “Distribution of Population in the Amazon Valley,” p. 206.

171 “an extremely original”: Quoted in Rob Hawke, “The Making of a Legend: Colonel Fawcett in Bolivia” (thesis, University of Essex, n.d.), p. 41.

171 “He is a visionary”: Arthur R. Hinks to Sir Maurice de Bunsen, Feb. 26, 1920, RGS.

171 “I do not expect”: Hinks to Keltie, Dec. 31, 1923, RGS.

171 “Remember that I”: Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.

172 “Never mind what”: Keltie to Fawcett, Dec. 11, 1914, RGS.

172 “rather queer”: Hinks to Keltie, Dec. 31, 1923, RGS.

172 “I don’t lose”: Fawcett to Keltie, April 15, 1924, RGS.

172 “an opportunity to grow”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 209.

173 “the difficulty of”: Rice, “Rio Negro, the Casiquiare Canal, and the Upper Orinoco,” p. 324.

174 “The results”: Swanson, “Wireless Receiving Equipment,” p. 210.

175 “A large, stout”: Rice, “Rio Negro, the Casiquiare Canal, and the Upper Orinoco,” p. 340.

175 “dress, manners, and”: Ibid., p. 325.

175 “There was no alternative”: Rice, “Recent Expedition of Dr. Hamilton Rice,” pp. 59- 60.

175 “We could hear”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 22, 1920.

175 “skedaddled”: Fawcett to Keltie, July 18, 1924, RGS.

175 “rather too soft”: Fawcett to Keltie, April 9, 1924, RGS.

176 “it is quite”: RGS to de Bunsen, March 10, 1920, RGS.

176 On February 26: My description of the meeting between Fawcett and Rondon is drawn largely from Leal’s Coronel Fawcett, pp. 95-96.

176 “it is a matter”: Fawcett to Secretary, War Office, Feb. 17, 1919, WO 138/51, TNA.

176 “The higher rank”: Fawcett to the Secretary of the Army Council, Aug. 8, 1922, WO 138/51, TNA.

176 “instant attention”: Quoted in Hemming, Die If You Must, p. 14.

177 Undeterred, Fawcett: In Exploration Fawcett, both Brown and Holt are given pseudonyms. The former is referred to as Butch Reilly and the latter as Felipe.

177 “I’m flesh and blood”: Ibid., p. 214.

178 In the 1870s: Hobhouse, Seeds of Wealth, p. 138.

178 “The electric lights”: Furneaux, Amazon, p. 159.

178 “impoverished and backward”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, pp. 212-13.

178 “Lat x+4 to x + 5”: Nina Fawcett to Large, June 10, 1921, Fawcett Family Papers.

178 May “protection” be: Jack Fawcett to Fawcett, March 3, 1920, Fawcett Family