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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161 “one of the most”:Cecil Eric Lewis Lyne, “My Participation in the Two Great Wars” (unpublished memoir), RAHT.

161 “was probably the nastiest”:Henry Harold Hemming, “My Story” (unpublished memoir), IWM.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.

163 “I possess the medal”:Fawcett to Keltie, Jan. 15, 1920, RGS.

164 It was the Battle:For descriptions of the war, see Gilbert, Somme; Ellis, Eye-Deep in Hell; Winter, Death’s Men; and Hart, Somme.

164 “at least provides”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 66.

164 “Tell me”:Huntford, Shackleton, p. 599.

165 “Dante would never”:Cecil Eric Lewis Lyne diary, RAHT.

165 “burnt up”:Ellis, Eye-Deep in Hell, pp. 66-67.

165 “He was troubled”:Nina Fawcett to Keltie, March 3, 1917, RGS.

165 The war had claimed:Mill, Record of the Royal Geographical Society, p. 204.

165 “He was a good fellow”:Fawcett to Keltie, n.d., 1917, RGS.

165 “of purely unselfish”:Davson, History of the 35th Division, p. 43.

165 “If you can imagine”:“British Colonel in Letter Here Tells of Enormous Slaughter,” in Fawcett’s scrapbook, n.d., n.p., Fawcett Family Papers.

166 “Is that you, boy?”:Stashower, Teller of Tales, p. 346.

166 “She loved you so”:Fawcett to Doyle, March 26, 1919, HRC.

167 “He and his intelligence”:Hemming, “My Story.” Henry Harold Hemming was also the father of John Hemming, the celebrated historian who later became the director of the Royal Geographical Society.

167 Or, as he told:Fawcett to Doyle, March 26, 1919, HRC.

167 “many times in France”: Washington Post, March 18, 1934.

168 “full of the hidden”:Letter to the editor, Times (London), July 4, 1936.

168 “It is a little”:Keltie to Fawcett, April 7, 1915, RGS.

168 “I am getting older”:Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 23, 1918, RGS.

168 “Knowing what these”:Fawcett, letter to the editor, Travel, 1918.

168 “the whole business”:Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 23, 1918, RGS.

168 “Many thousands must”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 209.

168 “now quite an inch”:Nina Fawcett to Large, May 19, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers.

168 “We all went”:Ibid.

169 “I had a ripping”:Jack Fawcett to Large, Oct. 2, 1924, Fawcett Family Papers.

169 “able and willing”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 277.

169 “This is mine”:Ibid.

169 “At school it was”:Ibid.

169 “hidden feeling”:Nina Fawcett to Joan, Dec. 14, 1952, Fawcett Family Papers.

169 “no favourites”:Brian Fawcett to Nina, Dec. 5, 1933, Fawcett Family Papers.

170 “My elder brother”:Brian Fawcett to Brigadier F. Percy Roe, March 15, 1977, RGS.

171 “the general practitioner”:Dyott, On the Trail of the Unknown, p. 141.

171 “I cannot induce”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 260.

171 “one of the world’s”:Schurz, “Distribution of Population in the Amazon Valley,” p. 206.

171 “an extremely original”:Quoted in Rob Hawke, “The Making of a Legend: Colonel Fawcett in Bolivia” (thesis, University of Essex, n.d.), p. 41.

171 “He is a visionary”:Arthur R. Hinks to Sir Maurice de Bunsen, Feb. 26, 1920, RGS.

171 “I do not expect”:Hinks to Keltie, Dec. 31, 1923, RGS.

171 “Remember that I”:Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.

172 “Never mind what”:Keltie to Fawcett, Dec. 11, 1914, RGS.

172 “rather queer”:Hinks to Keltie, Dec. 31, 1923, RGS.

172 “I don’t lose”:Fawcett to Keltie, April 15, 1924, RGS.

172 “an opportunity to grow”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 209.

173 “the difficulty of”:Rice, “Rio Negro, the Casiquiare Canal, and the Upper Orinoco,” p. 324.

174 “The results”:Swanson, “Wireless Receiving Equipment,” p. 210.

175 “A large, stout”:Rice, “Rio Negro, the Casiquiare Canal, and the Upper Orinoco,” p. 340.

175 “dress, manners, and”:Ibid., p. 325.

175 “There was no alternative”:Rice, “Recent Expedition of Dr. Hamilton Rice,” pp. 59-60.

175 “We could hear”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 22, 1920.

175 “skedaddled”:Fawcett to Keltie, July 18, 1924, RGS.

175 “rather too soft”:Fawcett to Keltie, April 9, 1924, RGS.

176 “it is quite”:RGS to de Bunsen, March 10, 1920, RGS.

176 On February 26:My description of the meeting between Fawcett and Rondon is drawn largely from Leal’s Coronel Fawcett, pp. 95-96.

176 “it is a matter”:Fawcett to Secretary, War Office, Feb. 17, 1919, WO 138/51, TNA.

176 “The higher rank”:Fawcett to the Secretary of the Army Council, Aug. 8, 1922, WO 138/51, TNA.

176 “instant attention”:Quoted in Hemming, Die If You Must, p. 14.

177 Undeterred, Fawcett:In Exploration Fawcett, both Brown and Holt are given pseudonyms. The former is referred to as Butch Reilly and the latter as Felipe.

177 “I’m flesh and blood”:Ibid., p. 214.

178 In the 1870s:Hobhouse, Seeds of Wealth, p. 138.

178 “The electric lights”:Furneaux, Amazon, p. 159.