61 “It is a loss”: Freshfield and Wharton, Hints to Travellers, p. 2.
61 “Remember that”: Ibid., p. 5.
“Had we lived”: New York Times, Feb. 11, 1913.
62 In 1896, Great Britain: McNiven and Russell, Appropriated Pasts, p. 66.
62 “savages, barbarians”: Freshfield and Wharton, Hints to Travellers, p. 435.
62 “the prejudices with”: Ibid., pp. 445-46.
62 “it is established”: Ibid., p. 422.
62 As with mapping: Information on the “tools” used by early anthropologists is derived largely from the 1893 edition of Hints to Travellers and the 1874 handbook prepared by the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Notes and Queries on Anthropology.
62 “Where practicable”: Freshfield and Wharton, Hints to Travellers, p. 421.
62 “It is hardly safe”: Ibid.
62 “emotions are differently”: Ibid., p. 422.
63 “Notwithstanding his inveterate”: Ibid., p. 58.
63 “We, the undersigned”: Ibid., p. 6.
63 “Promote merriment”: Ibid., p. 309.
63 “A frank, joking”: Ibid., p. 308.
63 “constantly pushing and pulling”: Ibid., p. 17.
64 “Use soap-suds”: Ibid., p. 18.
64 “Afterwards burn out”: Ibid., p. 21.
64 “Pour boiling grease”: Ibid., p. 20.
64 “This can be done”: Ibid., p. 225.
64 “To prepare them”: Ibid., p. 201.
64 “take your knife”: Ibid., p. 317.
65 “If a man be lost”: Ibid., p. 321.
65 “Choose a well-marked”: Ibid.
65 “with great credit”: Ibid., p. 96.
65 “The R.G.S. bred me”: Fawcett to John Scott Keltie, Nov. 2, 1924, RGS.
67 “There were the Prudent”: Fleming, Brazilian Adventure, p. 32.
68 More feared than piranhas: Millard, River of Doubt, pp. 164-65.
69 “Many deaths result”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 50.
70 “ hush-hush”: Brian Fawcett to Brigadier F. Percy Roe, March 15, 1977, RGS.
71 It was the perfect: Details of Fawcett's time working for the British Intelligence Office are drawn from his Morocco diary, 1901, Fawcett Family Papers.
71 “nature of trails”: Ibid.
71 In the nineteenth century: See Hefferman, “Geography, Cartography, and Military Intelligence,” pp. 505-6.
71 British authorities transformed: My information on the Survey of India Depart ment and its spies comes primarily from Hopkirk's books The Great Game and Tres passers on the Roof of the World.
72 “some sort of Moorish”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Journey to Morocco City,” p. 190.
72 “The Sultan is”: Fawcett, Morocco diary.
72 In early 1906: Percy Harrison Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, pp. 18-19.
72 Famous for his keen: See Flint, Sir George Goldie and the Making of Nigeria; and Muffett, Empire Builder Extraordinary.
73 “[He] was lashed”: Muffett, Empire Builder Extraordinary, p. 19.
73 “bore holes”: Ibid., p. 22.
73 “Do you know”: For the conversation between Fawcett and Goldie, see Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, pp. 18-20.
74 “Destiny intended me”: Ibid., p. 20.
74 “toughs, would be”: Ibid.
74 a thirty-year-old: Fawcett used a pseudonym for Chivers in Exploration Fawcett, calling him Chalmers.
74 “They were all”: Ibid., p. 21.
74 Since the canal's: Enrique Chavas-Carballo, “Ancon Hospitaclass="underline" An American Hospital During the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1904-1914,” Military Medicine, Oct. 1999.
75 “How strange”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 26.
76 “a marvelous effect”: Freshfield and Wharton, Hints to Travellers, p. 12.
76 “A mule's load”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 159.
76 Christopher Columbus had: My descriptions of the Amazon rubber boom and the frontier come from several sources, including Furneaux, Amazon, pp. 144-66; Hemming, Amazon Frontier, pp. 271-75; and St. Clair, Mighty, Mighty Amazon, pp. 156-63.
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 From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, ed. Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006).
76 “No extravagance”: Furneaux, Amazon, p. 153.
77 “the most criminal”: Quoted in Hemming, Amazon Frontier, pp. 292-93.
77 “My heart sank”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 41.
78 “from ‘nowhere' ”: Ibid., p. 89.
78 “as proper as”: Price, Amazing Amazon, p. 147.
78 “Government? What”: Quoted in Fifer, Bolivia, p. 131.
78 “Here come”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, pp. 95-96.
78 In one instance: See Hardenburg, Putumayo.
78 “In some sections”: Ibid., p. 204.
79 “It is no exaggeration”: U.S. Department of State, Slavery in Peru, p. 120.
79 “so many of them”: Ibid., p. 69.
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, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, p. 40.
80 “there was an unpleasant”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 131.
80 In addition to piranhas: For descriptions of the animals and insects of the Amazon, see Forsyth and Miyata, Tropical Nature; Cutright, Great Naturalists Explore South America; Kricher, Neotropical Companion; and Millard, River of Doubt.