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211 “music was”: Nina Fawcett to the Brazilian ambassador, Feb. 3, 1937, RGS.

211 “I have never”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 19, 1925, RGS.

211 “absolutely unexplored”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

211 “Years tell”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 291.

212 “The Fawcetts can”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 17, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

212 “That’s too deep”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 19, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

212 “I wish [Raleigh]”: Ibid.

212 “I wish to hell”:Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 17, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

212 “sense of inferiority”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

213 “witnessed throughout”: Hemming, Die If You Must, p. 140.

213 “lot of stick-throwers”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 2, 1925.

213 In the late eighteenth century: For information about the Xavante and the Kayapos, see Hemming, Die If You Must, pp. 86-132.

213 “from that time”: Quoted in ibid., p. 95.

213 “It is obviously”: Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.

214 “I believe our”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 2, 1925.

214 “I suspect constitutional”: Fawcett to Nina, May 29, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

214 “By the time”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1925.

214 “I shall look”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

214 “You need have”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 291.

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217 “ruined architecture”: Rice, “Rio Branco, Uraricuera, and Parima,” p. 218.

218 “I don’t feel”: New York Times, Sept. 17, 2003.

218 “the highest concentration”: Economist, July 24, 2004.

218 On February 12: See New York Times, May 16, 2007; Baltimore Sun, March 14, 2005; and Dayton Daily News, Aug. 14, 2007.

219 But I soon discovered: My account of Petersen’s death is based on my interviews with Eduardo Neves and on newspaper accounts.

221 “Fawcett’s dream”: Verne, Bob Moran and the Fawcett Mystery, p. 76.

221 “I’m an archeologist”: MacGregor, Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils, p. 58.

222 “My son, lame”: Ibid., p. 2.

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225 “Any day now”: Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1927.

225 “I believe firmly”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 1, 1928.

225 “I think it”: Nina Fawcett to Arthur R. Hinks, July 11, 1927, RGS.

225 “Mother! I feel”: Nina Fawcett to Harold Large, Nov. 23, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

226 “Father has got”: Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1927.

226 “Have they been”: Ibid.

226 Several decades later: Cowell, Tribe That Hides from Man, p. 93.

226 “Explorer Called Dupe”: Washington Post, Sept. 12, 1927.

226 “escape from”: Independent, Sept. 24, 1927.

226 “described Daddy exactly”: Brian Fawcett to Nina, Sept. 23, 1927, RGS.

226 “I was boiling”: Nina Fawcett to Hinks, Oct. 24, 1927, RGS.

226 “As the story grew”: Nina Fawcett to Courteville, Aug. 1, 1928, RGS.

227 “One cannot tell”: Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1927.

227 “No better man”: Ibid.

227 “we hold ourselves”: D. G. Hogarth, “Address at the Anniversary General Meeting, 20 June 1927,” Geographical Journal, Aug. 1927, p. 100.

227 “I am thirty-six years”: R. Bock to D. G. Hogarth, June 21, 1927, RGS.

227 “I am prepared”: Robert Bunio to Hogarth, June 21, 1927, RGS.

227 “My wife and I”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 1927.

228 “whether there is”: Ibid.

228 “We consider that”: Geoffrey Steele-Ronan to Hogarth, June 21, 1927, RGS.

228 “romantic story”: St. Clair, Mighty, Mighty Amazon, p. 254.

228 To succeed, Dyott: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1929.

229 “camped in some”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 6, 1927.

229 “supreme courage”: Ibid.

229 “A big man”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 13, 1927.

229 “They have come”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 14, 1927.

229 “There are applicants”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 1927.

229 “Perhaps if there”: Independent, Dec. 3, 1927.

230 “I am mostanxious”: Roger Rimell to RGS, 1933, RGS.

230 “I know of no”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 17, 1927.

230 “I can’t take”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 1927.

230 “creature comforts”: Ibid.

230 “a display of unselfish”: Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1928.

230 “fills me with”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 17, 1927.

230 “On behalf of”: John James Whitehead diary, March 1, 1928, RGS.

231 “Cecil B. DeMille safari”: Kigar, “Phantom Trail of Colonel Fawcett,” p. 21.

231 “the dregs of civilization”: Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 85.

231 “Fawcett’s trail loomed”: Ibid., p. 135.

231 “How different would”: Whitehead diary, May 28, 1928, RGS.

231 “I first heard”: McIntyre, “The Commander and the Mystic,” p. 5.

232 “We came across”: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 18,