201 “Daddy says”: Ibid., p. 282.
201 “a God forsaken hole”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.
201 Fawcett wrote: Fawcett to Harold Large, March 20, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.
201 “Raleigh's feet”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 284.
201 “[What] a hell”: Ibid., p. 283.
201 Raleigh boasted that: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.
202 “We are feeding”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 283.
202 “We intend to buy”: Ibid., p. 280.
202 “The horses being”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.
203 “This is nothing”: Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1925.
203 “I have seen no reason”: Fawcett to Nina, March 6, 1925, RGS.
203 “Progress slow”: Royal Geographical Society, “Dr. Hamilton Rice on the Rio Branco,” p. 241.
204 “If not over”: Stevens, “Hydroplane of the Hamilton Rice Expedition,” pp. 42- 43. Interestingly, in 1932, Stevens, while flying in a hot-air balloon, became the first photographer to capture the moon's shadow on the earth during a solar eclipse. In 1935, he also broke the world record for the highest ascent in a balloon-a record that wouldn't be surpassed for another twenty-one years.
205 “The palms below”: Ibid., pp. 35-36.
205 “the congratulations”: Royal Geographical Society, “Dr. Hamilton Rice on the Rio Branco,” p. 241.
205 “Those regions”: New York Times, Aug. 24, 1924.
205 “The Brazilian jungle”: New York Times, July 11, 1925.
205 “communication by radio”: Royal Geographical Society, “Dr. Hamilton Rice on the Rio Branco,” p. 241. 205 “Whether it is”: Ibid.
205 “[A prospector] and”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 284.
206 “into a world”: Ahrens to Nina Fawcett, July 10, 1925, RGS.
206 “an excellent initiation”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 289.
206 “fish were literally”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1925.
206 “Daddy had gone”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 286.
206 “[Jack] has evidently”: Large to Nina Fawcett, May 24, 1929, Fawcett Family Papers.
208 “My father chose”: Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1927.
208 “the tickiest place”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1925.
208 “It is a saying”: Fawcett to Nina, May 20, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.
208 “in spite of”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.
209 “I think you”: Nina Fawcett to Large, Aug. 30, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.
209 Galvão had pushed: For details on Galvão, see Leal, Coronel Fawcett.
209 “It was quite”: Translation and extract from the newspaper O Democrata, n.d., RGS.
209 “considerable danger”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1925.
210 “a pinprick”: John James Whitehead diary, June 8, 1928, RGS.
210 “the Brazilian methods”: Fawcett to Isaiah Bowman, May 20, 1925, NMAI.
210 “The Bakairís have been”: American Geographical Society, “Correspondence,” p. 696.
210 “They have in part”: Fawcett to Bowman, May 20, 1925, NMAI.
210 “They say the Bacairys”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 19, 1925, RGS.
210 “We have all clipped”: Ibid.
211 “about eight wild”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.
211 “To Jack's great delight”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 290.
211 “We gave them”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.
211 “They are small”: Ibid.
211 “music was”: Nina Fawcett to the Brazilian ambassador, Feb. 3, 1937, RGS.
211 “I have never”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 19, 1925, RGS.
211 “absolutely unexplored”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.
211 “Years tell”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 291.
212 “The Fawcetts can”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 17, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.
212 “That's too deep”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 19, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.
212 “I wish [Raleigh]”: Ibid.
212 “I wish to hell”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 17, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.
212 “sense of inferiority”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.
213 “witnessed throughout”: Hemming, Die If You Must, p. 140.
213 “lot of stick-throwers”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 2, 1925.
213 In the late eighteenth century: For information about the Xavante and the Kayapós, see Hemming, Die If You Must, pp. 86-132.
213 “from that time”: Quoted in ibid., p. 95.
213 “It is obviously”: Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.
214 “I believe our”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 2, 1925.
214 “I suspect constitutional”: Fawcett to Nina, May 29, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.
214 “By the time”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1925.
214 “I shall look”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers. 214 “You need have”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 291.
217 “ruined architecture”: Rice, “Rio Branco, Uraricuera, and Parima,” p. 218.
218 “I don't feel”: New York Times, Sept. 17, 2003.
218 “the highest concentration”: Economist, July 24, 2004.
218 On February 12: See New York Times, May 16, 2007; Baltimore Sun, March 14, 2005; and Dayton Daily News, Aug. 14, 2007.
219 But I soon discovered: My account of Petersen's death is based on my interviews with Eduardo Neves and on newspaper accounts.
221 “Fawcett's dream”: Verne, Bob Moran and the Fawcett Mystery, p. 76.
221 “I'm an archeologist”: MacGregor, Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils, p. 58.
222 “My son, lame”: Ibid., p. 2.
225 “Any day now”: Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1927.
225 “I believe firmly”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 1, 1928.