145 “unintelligible”:
145 “for an elderly man”: Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 3, 1915, RGS.
145 “I do not wish”: Fawcett to Keltie, April 15, 1924, RGS.
145 “a humbug from”: Fawcett to Keltie, Sept. 27, 1912, RGS.
146 “counted in with”: Fawcett to Keltie, April 9, 1915, RGS.
146 In 1900, Rondon: Millard,
146 “gentlemen, owing to”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Case for an Expedition in the Amazon Basin” (proposal), April 13, 1924, RGS.
146 “the idea of”: Brian Fawcett,
146 “I think you worry”: Keltie to Fawcett, Jan. 29, 1914, RGS.
146 “sure to go out”: Ibid.
147 “prove to be”: Bingham, introduction to
147 “the pin-up of”: Hugh Thomson,
148 “The great lord”: Quoted in Hemming,
149 So, according to: For details, see Hemming's definitive account,
149 “gleaming like”: Quoted in Hemming,
149 As fanciful as these: The theologian Sepulveda would later dismiss the “ingenuity” of the Indians, such as the Aztecs and the Incas, by saying “animals, birds, and spiders” can also make “certain structures which no human accomplishment can competently imitate.”
149 “Some of our soldiers”: Quoted in Hemming,
149 “like something from”: Ibid., p. 45.
149 “Because of many reports”: Carvajal, appendix to
150 “Cinnamon of the most”: Quoted in Hemming,
150 “The butcher Gonzalo”: Ibid., p. 112.
151 “like mad men”: Carvajal,
151 “either die or see”: Ibid., p. 171.
151 “went in as far”: Ibid., p. 213.
151 “as the brown waters”: St. Clair,
152 “more rich and bewtifull cities”: Ralegh,
152 “more desirous”: Quoted in Trevelyan,
152 “God knows”: Ibid., pp. 504-5.
152 His skull was: Adamson and Folland,
152 “Some, contrary to nature”: Quoted in Hemming,
152 “Oh, diabolical plan!”: Ibid., p. 42.
152 “They marched like”: Ibid., p. 172.
153 “exaggerated romance”: Fawcett to Arthur R. Hinks, n.d., RGS.
153 “All that night”: Carvajal,
153 “many roads” and “fine highways”: Ibid.
154 “great quantity of maize”: Ibid., p. 211.
154 “cities that glistened”: Ibid., p. 217.
154 “there was a villa”: Ibid., p. 201.
154 “full of lies”: Carvajal, introduction to
155 “Both the General”: Quoted in Hemming,
155 “they had seen”: Ibid., p. 133.
155 “introduction of small-pox”: Typed extracts from Fawcett's correspondence, Faw cett to Harold Large, Oct. 16, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.
155 “the greatest secrets”: Percy Harrison Fawcett,
158 “incited by the insatiable”: My translation of the document was checked against the more authoritative translation done by Richard Burton's wife, Isabel, which is included in his second volume of
“It was difficult”: Percy Harrison Fawcett,
“It feels genuine!”: Brian Fawcett to Nina and Joan, Feb. 6, 1952, Fawcett Family Papers.
161 “Of course experienced”: Keltie to Fawcett, Dec. 11, 1914, RGS.
161 “finger on important”: Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 3, 1915, RGS.
161 “Fear not”: Quoted in
161 “in the thick”: Fawcett to Keltie, Jan. 18, 1915, RGS.
161 “one of the most”: Cecil Eric Lewis Lyne, “My Participation in the Two Great Wars” (unpublished memoir), RAHT.
161 “was probably the nastiest”: Henry Harold Hemming, “My Story” (unpublished memoir), IWM.
161 “Fawcett and I”: Lyne, “My Participation in the Two Great Wars.”
161 One day Fawcett: Ibid.
162 wearing a long: See John Ramsden's first American edition of
162 “queer garments”: For Fawcett's encounter with Churchill, see Lyne, “My Participation in the Two Great Wars.”
