225 “I think it”: Nina Fawcett to Arthur R. Hinks, July 11, 1927, RGS.
225 “Mother! I feel”: Nina Fawcett to Harold Large, Nov. 23, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.
226 “Father has got”: Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1927.
226 “Have they been”: Ibid.
226 Several decades later: Cowell, Tribe That Hides from Man, p. 93.
226 “Explorer Called Dupe”: Washington Post, Sept. 12, 1927.
226 “escape from”: Independent, Sept. 24, 1927.
226 “described Daddy exactly”: Brian Fawcett to Nina, Sept. 23, 1927, RGS.
226 “I was boiling”: Nina Fawcett to Hinks, Oct. 24, 1927, RGS.
226 “As the story grew”: Nina Fawcett to Courteville, Aug. 1, 1928, RGS.
227 “One cannot tell”: Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1927.
227 “No better man”: Ibid.
227 “we hold ourselves”: D. G. Hogarth, “Address at the Anniversary General Meeting, 20 June 1927,” Geographical Journal, Aug. 1927, p. 100.
227 “I am thirty-six years”: R. Bock to D. G. Hogarth, June 21, 1927, RGS.
227 “I am prepared”: Robert Bunio to Hogarth, June 21, 1927, RGS.
227 “My wife and I”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 1927.
228 “whether there is”: Ibid.
228 “We consider that”: Geoffrey Steele-Ronan to Hogarth, June 21, 1927, RGS.
228 “romantic story”: St. Clair, Mighty, Mighty Amazon, p. 254.
228 To succeed, Dyott: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1929.
229 “camped in some”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 6, 1927.
229 “supreme courage”: Ibid.
229 “A big man”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 13, 1927.
229 “They have come”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 14, 1927.
229 “There are applicants”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 1927.
229 “Perhaps if there”: Independent, Dec. 3, 1927.
230 “I am most anxious”: Roger Rimell to RGS, 1933, RGS.
230 “I know of no”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 17, 1927.
230 “I can't take”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 1927.
230 “creature comforts”: Ibid.
230 “a display of unselfish”: Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1928.
230 “fills me with”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 17, 1927.
230 “On behalf of”: John James Whitehead diary, March 1, 1928, RGS.
231 “Cecil B. DeMille safari”: Kigar, “Phantom Trail of Colonel Fawcett,” p. 21.
231 “the dregs of civilization”: Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 85.
231 “Fawcett's trail loomed”: Ibid., p. 135.
231 “How different would”: Whitehead diary, May 28, 1928, RGS.
231 “I first heard”: McIntyre, “The Commander and the Mystic,” p. 5.
232 “We came across”: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 18, 1928.
232 “These new denizens”: Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 173.
232 “He regarded us”: Ibid., p. 177.
232 “We cannot predict”: Whitehead diary, July 24, 1928, RGS.
233 “The finger of guilt”: Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 236.
233 “I am so afraid”: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 16, 1928.
233 “couldn't eat”: Whitehead diary, Aug. 12, 1928, RGS.
233 “Remember,” Dyott: Ibid., July 25, 1928.
234 “Natives from tribes”: Stanley Allen, New Haven Register, n.d., RGS.
234 “Am sorry to report”: Dyott to NANA (radio dispatch), Aug. 16, 1928, RGS.
234 “We want to”: Whitehead diary, Sept. 28, 1928, RGS.
234 “You can be”: Chicago Daily Tribune, March 19, 1930.
235 “Indian psychology”: Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 264.
235 “Dyott… must have”: Brian Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 71.
235 “There is consequently”: Nina Fawcett to NANA, Aug. 23, 1928, RGS.
235 “never give up”: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 22, 1928.
235 “Do not lose”: Esther Windust to Elsie Rimell, Dec. 14, 1928, PHFP.
236 “all hope of”: Abbott to Charles Goodwin, March 22, 1932, FO 743/16, TNA.
236 “My name is Stefan”: Translated statement of Stefan Rattin, prepared by Charles Goodwin and sent to Sir William Seeds, March 18, 1932, FO 743/17, TNA.
236 “only known to me”: Abbott to Hinks, Dec. 8, 1932, RGS.
236 “dare not build my”: H. Kingsley Long, “The Faith of Mrs. Fawcett,” Passing Show, Nov. 12, 1932.
236 “I promised Colonel”: Chicago Daily Tribune, March 20, 1932.
236 “Rattin is anxious”: Washington Post, May 28, 1932.
237 “given up the imitation”: Washington Post, Sept. 30, 1934.
237 “Albert Winton, Los Angeles”: Los Angeles Times, Feb. 4, 1934.
237 “this grave turn”: George W. Cumbler to British Consulate Office, Oct. 17, 1934, RGS.
237 Only years later: Hemming, Die If You Must, p. 700.
238 “The Indians are going”: New York Times, Aug. 12, 1939.
238 “I tried to save”: O Globo, Aug. 23, 1946.
238 In 1947: See Childress, Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America, pp. 303-5.
239 “You have always”: Hinks to Nina Fawcett, Oct. 25, 1928, RGS.
239 “more than one passport”: Nina Fawcett to A. Bain Mackie, June 20, 1935, RGS.
239 “My heart is lacerated”: Nina Fawcett to Large, May 6, 1929, Fawcett Family Papers.
240 “Lady Fawcett is suffering”: A. Bachmann to Hinks, Feb. 12, 1934, RGS.
240 “so that they shall”: Nina Fawcett to Large, Fawcett Family Papers.
240 “I shall act on”: Edward Douglas Fawcett to Hinks, 1933, RGS.
240 “I am one”: Nina Fawcett to Thomas Roch, March 10, 1934, RGS.
240 Large referred to: Large to Nina Fawcett, April 16, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.
240 “The return of her”: Mackie to Goodwin, Nov. 21, 1933, TNA.
240 “I get the impression”: Nina Fawcett to Reverend Monseigneur Couturon, July 3, 1933, RGS.
241 “the most primitive”: Moennich, Pioneering for Christ in Xingu Jungles, p. 9.