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232 “These new denizens”: Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 173.

232 “He regarded us”: Ibid., p. 177.

232 “We cannot predict”: Whitehead diary, July 24, 1928, RGS.

233 “The finger of guilt”: Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 236.

233 “I am so afraid”: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 16, 1928.

233 “couldn’t eat”: Whitehead diary, Aug. 12, 1928, RGS.

233 “Remember,” Dyott: Ibid., July 25, 1928.

234 “Natives from tribes”: Stanley Allen, New Haven Register, n.d., RGS.

234 “Am sorry to report”: Dyott to NANA (radio dispatch), Aug. 16, 1928, RGS.

234 “We want to”: Whitehead diary, Sept. 28, 1928, RGS.

234 “You can be”: Chicago Daily Tribune, March 19, 1930.

235 “Indian psychology”: Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 264.

235 “Dyott… must have”: Brian Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 71.

235 “There is consequently”: Nina Fawcett to NANA, Aug. 23, 1928, RGS.

235 “never give up”: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 22, 1928.

235 “Do not lose”: Esther Windust to Elsie Rimell, Dec. 14, 1928, PHFP.

236 “all hope of”: Abbott to Charles Goodwin, March 22, 1932, FO 743/16, TNA.

236 “My name is Stefan”: Translated statement of Stefan Rattin, prepared by Charles Goodwin and sent to Sir William Seeds, March 18, 1932, FO 743/17, TNA.

236 “only known to me”: Abbott to Hinks, Dec. 8, 1932, RGS.

236 “dare not build my”: H. Kingsley Long, “The Faith of Mrs. Fawcett,” Passing Show, Nov. 12, 1932.

236 “I promised Colonel”: Chicago Daily Tribune, March 20, 1932.

236 “Rattin is anxious”: Washington Post, May 28, 1932.

237 “given up the imitation”: Washington Post, Sept. 30, 1934.

237 “Albert Winton, Los Angeles”: Los Angeles Times, Feb. 4, 1934.

237 “this grave turn”: George W. Cumbler to British Consulate Office, Oct. 17, 1934, RGS.

237 Only years later: Hemming, Die If You Must, p. 700.

238 “The Indians are going”: New York Times, Aug. 12, 1939.

238 “I tried to save”: O Globo, Aug. 23, 1946.

238 In 1947: See Childress, Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America, pp. 303-5.

239 “You have always”: Hinks to Nina Fawcett, Oct. 25, 1928, RGS.

239 “more than one passport”: Nina Fawcett to A. Bain Mackie, June 20, 1935, RGS.

239 “My heart is lacerated”: Nina Fawcett to Large, May 6, 1929, Fawcett Family Papers.

240 “Lady Fawcett is suffering”: A. Bachmann to Hinks, Feb. 12, 1934, RGS.

240 “so that they shall”: Nina Fawcett to Large, Fawcett Family Papers.

240 “I shall act on”: Edward Douglas Fawcett to Hinks, 1933, RGS.

240 “I am one”: Nina Fawcett to Thomas Roch, March 10, 1934, RGS.

240 Large referred to: Large to Nina Fawcett, April 16, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

240 “The return of her”: Mackie to Goodwin, Nov. 21, 1933, TNA.

240 “I get the impression”: Nina Fawcett to Reverend Monseigneur Couturon, July 3, 1933, RGS.

241 “the most primitive”: Moennich, Pioneering for Christ in Xingu Jungles, p. 9.

241 In 1937: Ibid., pp. 17-18.

241 “In his dual nature”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 301.

241 “not only to learn”: Moennich, Pioneering for Christ in Xingu Jungles, pp. 124-26.

241 “perhaps the most famous”: New York Times, Jan. 6, 1935.

241 a “freak”: “The ‘Grandson,’ ” Time, Jan. 24, 1944.

241 “matters are rather”: Hinks to Morel, Feb. 16, 1944, RGS.

242 When they examined: Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 123.

242 “living specimens”: Marsh, “Blond Indians of the Darien Jungle,” p. 483.

242 “They are golden”: Los Angeles Times, June 15, 1924.

242 “Feel the girl’s neck”: New York Times, July 9, 1924.

242 “relic of the Paleolithic”: New York Times, July 7, 1924.

242 “closer to nature”: Washington Post, Oct. 16, 1924.

243 “no home”: Nina Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 6, 1946, Fawcett Family Papers.

243 “You’ve been”: Brian Fawcett to Nina, Dec. 5, 1933, Fawcett Family Papers.

243 “it means certain”: Everild Young to Colonel Kirwan, Sept. 24, 1946, RGS.

CHAPTER 23: THE COLONEL’S BONES

249 “The whole”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Proposal for a S. American Expedition” (proposal), April 4, 1924, RGS.

249 “There is reason”: Dyott, Manhunting in the Jungle, p. 224.

250 “Everywhere he went”: Villas Boas and Villas Boas, Xingu, p. 165.

252 “Up that way”: In 1998, Vajuvi told a similar story to the British adventurer Benedict Allen, who made a film about his journey for the BBC entitled The Bones of Colonel Fawcett.

253 “The upper jaw”: “Report on the Human Remains from Brazil,” 1951, RAI.

255 “One of them”: Basso, Last Cannibals, pp. 78-86.

CHAPTER 24: THE OTHER WORLD

256 “Are you alive”: Esther Windust to Nina Fawcett, Oct. 10, 1928, PHFP.

256 “We shall see”: Mrs. Mullins to Nina Fawcett, Feb. 9, 1928, Fawcett Family Papers.

256 “Her life flows”: Edward Douglas Fawcett to Arthur R. Hinks, 1933.

257 Toward the end: Reeves, Recollections of a Geographer, pp. 198-99.

257 In the early 1940s: Leal, Coronel Fawcett, pp. 213-