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197 “No Olympic games”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1925.

197 “Aren’t the reports”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 280.

197 Brazilian authorities: Fawcett to John Scott Keltie, Feb. 4, 1925, RGS.

198 “They do not want”: Ibid.

198 “We have met”: Fawcett to Keltie, March 7, 1925, RGS.

198 the daughter of: Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 22.

198 “I became acquainted”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 279.

198 “[The colonel] and Jack”: Ibid.

198 “[Raleigh] is much”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

198 “I suppose after”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 279.

198 “I don’t intend”: Ibid.

199 “A whole lot”: Ibid., p. 281.

199 “A snake-bite which bleeds”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 3, 1925. According to snake experts today, it is actually not possible to determine if a snake is poisonous simply based on whether the wound bleeds.

199 “I saw some quite”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 279.

199 “The lavatory”: Ibid., p. 281.

200 “I am now”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

200 “Raleigh is a funny”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 283.

200 “a desperate villain”: Ibid., p. 281.

200 “On Wednesday night”: Ibid., p. 282.

201 “almost big enough”: Raleigh Rimell to Dulcie Rimell, March 11, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

201 “Cuyaba will seem”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 281.

201 “Daddy says”: Ibid., p. 282.

201 “a God forsaken hole”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

201 Fawcett wrote: Fawcett to Harold Large, March 20, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

201 “Raleigh’s feet”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 284.

201 “[What] a hell”: Ibid., p. 283.

201 Raleigh boasted that: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

202 “We are feeding”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 283.

202 “We intend to buy”: Ibid., p. 280.

202 “The horses being”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

203 “This is nothing”: Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1925.

203 “I have seen no reason”: Fawcett to Nina, March 6, 1925, RGS.

203 “Progress slow”: Royal Geographical Society, “Dr. Hamilton Rice on the Rio Branco,” p. 241.

204 “If not over”: Stevens, “Hydroplane of the Hamilton Rice Expedition,” pp. 42- 43. Interestingly, in 1932, Stevens, while flying in a hot-air balloon, became the first photographer to capture the moon’s shadow on the earth during a solar eclipse. In 1935, he also broke the world record for the highest ascent in a balloon-a record that wouldn’t be surpassed for another twenty-one years.

205 “The palms below”: Ibid., pp. 35-36.

205 “the congratulations”: Royal Geographical Society, “Dr. Hamilton Rice on the Rio Branco,” p. 241.

205 “Those regions”: New York Times, Aug. 24, 1924.

205 “The Brazilian jungle”: New York Times, July 11, 1925.

205 “communication by radio”: Royal Geographical Society, “Dr. Hamilton Rice on the Rio Branco,” p. 241.

205 “Whether it is”: Ibid.

205 “[A prospector] and”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 284.

206 “into a world”: Ahrens to Nina Fawcett, July 10, 1925, RGS.

206 “an excellent initiation”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 289.

206 “fish were literally”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1925.

206 “Daddy had gone”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 286.

206 “[Jack] has evidently”: Large to Nina Fawcett, May 24, 1929, Fawcett Family Papers.

208 “My father chose”: Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1927.

208 “the tickiest place”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1925.

208 “It is a saying”: Fawcett to Nina, May 20, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

208 “in spite of”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

209 “I think you”: Nina Fawcett to Large, Aug. 30, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

209 Galvao had pushed: For details on Galvao, see Leal, Coronel Fawcett.

209 “It was quite”: Translation and extract from the newspaper O Democrata, n.d., RGS.

209 “considerable danger”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1925.

210 “a pinprick”: John James Whitehead diary, June 8, 1928, RGS.

210 “the Brazilian methods”: Fawcett to Isaiah Bowman, May 20, 1925, NMAI.

210 “The Bakairis have been”: American Geographical Society, “Correspondence,” p. 696.

210 “They have in part”: Fawcett to Bowman, May 20, 1925, NMAI.

210 “They say the Bacairys”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 19, 1925, RGS.

210 “We have all clipped”: Ibid.

211 “about eight wild”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

211 “To Jack’s great delight”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 290.

211 “We gave them”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

211 “They are small”: Ibid.