73 “bore holes”: Ibid., p. 22.
73 “Do you know”: For the conversation between Fawcett and Goldie, see Fawcett,
74 “Destiny intended me”: Ibid., p. 20.
74 “toughs, would be”: Ibid.
74 a thirty-year-old: Fawcett used a pseudonym for Chivers in
74 “They were all”: Ibid., p. 21.
74 Since the canal's: Enrique Chavas-Carballo, “Ancon Hospital: An American Hospital During the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1904-1914,”
75 “How strange”: Fawcett,
76 “a marvelous effect”: Freshfield and Wharton,
76 “A mule's load”: Fawcett,
76 Christopher Columbus had: My descriptions of the Amazon rubber boom and the frontier come from several sources, including Furneaux,
76 In 1912, Brazil alone: Author's interview with Aldo Musacchio, co-author of “Brazil in the International Rubber Trade, 1870-1930,” which was published in
76 “No extravagance”: Furneaux,
77 “the most criminal”: Quoted in Hemming,
77 “My heart sank”: Fawcett,
78 “from ‘nowhere' ”: Ibid., p. 89.
78 “as proper as”: Price,
78 “Government? What”: Quoted in Fifer,
78 “Here come”: Fawcett,
78 In one instance: See Hardenburg,
78 “In some sections”: Ibid., p. 204.
79 “It is no exaggeration”: U.S. Department of State,
79 “so
79 “the wretched policy”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Survey Work on the Frontier Between Bolivia and Brazil,” p. 185.
79 “the great dangers”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Explorations in Bolivia,” p. 515.
79 “He could smell”: Ibid., p. 64.
80 “He has his choice”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 4, p. 91.
80 “the most ferocious”: Theodore Roosevelt,
80 “there was an unpleasant”: Fawcett,
80 In addition to piranhas: For descriptions of the animals and insects of the Amazon, see Forsyth and Miyata,
80 The German explorer-scientist: Humboldt,
81 “One shock is sufficient”: Fawcett,
81 “carry no hope”: Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 3, p. 498.
81 “It was one”: Fawcett,
82 “We lived simply”: Costin to daughter Mary, Nov. 10, 1946, Costin Family Papers. 82 “Inactivity was what”: Fawcett,
82 “Monkeys are looked”: Ibid., p. 47.
82 “is against man”: Ibid.
83 “[Mosquitoes] constitute”: Price,
83 “The piums settled”: Fawcett,
83 “The
83 “Attacked in hammocks”: Ernest Holt diary, Oct. 20, 1920, ADAH.
84 according to one estimate: Millard,
85 “a couple of crossed”: Fawcett,
85 “When [the Kanichana]”: Metraux,
85 “The head and the intestines”: Clastres, “Guayaki Cannibalism,” pp. 313-15.
86 “court assassination”: C. Reginald Enock, letter to the editor,
87 “It was trying”: Fawcett,
87 “Their bodies [were] painted”: Ibid., p. 87.
87 “One ripped through”: Ibid.
87 “I had observed”: Ibid., p. 83.
87 Still, two of the men: Fawcett, “Explorations in Bolivia,” p. 523.
87 “I was tempted”: Ibid., p. 43.
87 “Unless he had”: Keltie to Nina Fawcett, Dec. 1, 1913, RGS.
88 “the healthy person”: Fawcett,
91 “professional burglar”: Malcolm,
92 Many of the diaries: Quotations from diaries and logbooks come from the private papers of the Fawcett family.
94 “Are you game?”: See Percy Harrison Fawcett,
