144 one occasion they mutinied: New York Times, Sept. 7, 1913.
144 “He is a medical”: Keltie to Fawcett, Jan. 29, 1914, RGS.
144 “as much at home”: New York Times, July 24, 1956.
144 “Explorers are not”: Fawcett to RGS, Jan. 24, 1922, RGS.
145 “Keep your ears open”: Keltie to Fawcett, March 10, 1911, RGS.
145 “I see he even”: Quoted in Millard, River of Doubt, p. 338.
145 “a pure fake”: Ibid., p. 339.
145 “no mountaineer can”: Quoted in Hopkirk, Trespassers on the Roof of the World, p. 135.
145 “unintelligible”: New York Times, Oct. 6, 1915.
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, River of Doubt, p. 77.
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, Ruins in the Sky, p. 231.
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 Lost City of the Incas, pp. 17-18.
147 “the pin-up of”: Hugh Thomson, Independent (London), July 21, 2001.
148 “The great lord”: Quoted in Hemming, Search for El Dorado, p. 97.
149 So, according to: For details, see Hemming's definitive account, The Search for El Dorado. Also see Wood, Conquistadors; Smith, Explorers of the Amazon; and St. Clair, Mighty, Mighty Amazon.
149 “gleaming like”: Quoted in Hemming, Search for El Dorado, p. 101.
149 As fanciful as these: The theologian Sepúlveda 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, Search for El Dorado, p. 7.
149 “like something from”: Ibid., p. 45.
149 “Because of many reports”: Carvajal, appendix to Discovery of the Amazon, p. 245.
150 “Cinnamon of the most”: Quoted in Hemming, Search for El Dorado, p. 111.
150 “The butcher Gonzalo”: Ibid., p. 112.
151 “like mad men”: Carvajal, Discovery of the Amazon, p. 172.
151 “either die or see”: Ibid., p. 171.
151 “went in as far”: Ibid., p. 213.
151 “as the brown waters”: St. Clair, Mighty, Mighty Amazon, p. 47.
152 “more rich and bewtifull cities”: Ralegh, Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana, p. 111.
152 “more desirous”: Quoted in Trevelyan, Sir Walter Raleigh, p. 494.
152 “God knows”: Ibid., pp. 504-5.
152 His skull was: Adamson and Folland, Shepherd of the Ocean, p. 449.
152 “Some, contrary to nature”: Quoted in Hemming, Search for El Dorado, p. 63.
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, Discovery of the Amazon, p. 202.
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 Discovery of the Amazon, p. 25.
155 “Both the General”: Quoted in Hemming, Search for El Dorado, p. 134.
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, Exploration Fawcett, p. 173.
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 Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil.
“It was difficult”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 10.
“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 The New York Times Current History: The European War, vol. 1, August-December 1914, p. 140.
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 Man of the Century: Winston Churchill and His Legend Since 1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), p. 372.
162 “queer garments”: For Fawcett's encounter with Churchill, see Lyne, “My Participation in the Two Great Wars.”
162 “Filth & rubbish”: Quoted in Gilbert, Churchill, p. 332.
162 “He is very well”: Nina Fawcett to Keltie, March 2, 1916, RGS.
162 “So you can imagine”: Nina Fawcett to Keltie, April 25, 1916, RGS.
163 “If you only knew”: Fawcett to Edward A. Reeves, Feb. 5, 1915, RGS.
163 A bulletin: “Monthly Record,” Geographical Journal, Oct. 1916, p. 354.
163 “the dream of his life”: Nina Fawcett to Keltie, March 11, 1916, RGS.