David Grann - The Lost City of Z - A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

104 “equality… between man”:Nina Fawcett to Large, Dec. 6, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.

“Some day perhaps”:Nina Fawcett to Keltie, Jan. 6, 1911, RGS.

“Daddy gave us”:Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 30.

105 “By the look of it”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Gold Bricks at Badulla,” p. 234.

105 “the real apple”:Author's interview with Fawcett's granddaughter.

105 “Never forget us”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Jack Going to School,” 1910, Faw cett Family Papers.

106 “A leader of men”:Fawcett to Nina Fawcett, April 12, 1910, Fawcett Family Papers.

106 “He was probably”:Stanley Allen, New Haven Register, n.d., RGS.

106 “I have for years”:Barclay to David George Hogarth, Sept. 1, 1927, RGS.

106 60 percent of:Larson, Thunderstruck, p. 271.

106 “a disease bred”:Edward Douglas Fawcett, Hartmann the Anarchist, p. 27.

106 “Of the Houses”:Ibid., p. 147.

107 “ ‘The lure of ”:Quotations from newspaper articles found in Fawcett's scrap-book, Fawcett Family Papers.

107 “regions which have”:Suarez, Lembcke, and Fawcett, “Further Explorations in Bolivia,” p. 397.

107 “a great seeker”:Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 24, 1910, RGS.

107 “What I hope”:Suarez, Lembcke, and Fawcett, “Further Explorations in Bolivia,” pp. 396-97.

108 “I must tell you”:Ibid.

108 “I am a rapid”:Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 5, 1914, RGS.

108 “He was fever-proof”:Thomas Charles Bridges, Pictorial Weekly, n.d.

108 “a virtual immunity”:Furneaux, Amazon, p. 214.

108 “perfect constitution”:Fawcett to Keltie, March 10, 1910, RGS.

108 “What amazed me”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 178.

109 “the conviction that”:Barclay to David George Hogarth, Sept. 1, 1927, RGS.

109 “I am in the hands”:Fawcett to Esther Windust, March 24, 1923, PHFP.

109 “prepared to travel”:“Colonel Fawcett's Expedition in Matto Grosso,” Geographi- cal Journal, Feb. 1928, p. 176.

109 “By the way”:Nina Fawcett to Keltie, Oct. 9, 1921, RGS.

109 “Such journeys”:Fawcett to Keltie, March 2, 1912, RGS.

109 “hopeless rotter”:From scrapbook, Fawcett Family Papers.

109 “Why he would not”:Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 120.

109 “The strain has”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Bolivian Exploration, 1913-1914” (proposal), n.d., RGS.

110 “I have no mercy”:Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 24, 1913, RGS. 110 “I am very glad”:Keltie to Fawcett, Jan. 29, 1914, RGS.

110 Born in Glasgow:For details about Murray, see Riffenburgh, Nimrod; Niven, Ice Master; “Captain Bartlett Has No Views,” Washington Post, July 6, 1914; Shackleton, Heart of the Antarctic; and Murray and Marston, Antarctic Days.

110 “Pulling, you are”:Murray and Marston, Antarctic Days, p. 88.

111 “He is an admirable man”:Fawcett to Keltie, Oct. 3, 1911, RGS.

111 “I had had rheumatism”:Murray and Marston, introduction to Antarctic Days, p. xvi.

111 “barren regions”:Fawcett, letter to the editor, Travel, n.d., RGS.

112 “A tough bugger”:Author's interview with Michael Costin. 112 “It's impossible”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 144.

112 “Several mules with”:James Murray diary, Oct. 2, 1911, NLS.

112 “We were all”:Costin to daughter Mary, Nov. 10, 1946, Costin Family Papers.

113 “We awoke to find”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 150.

113 “Surely an iron-bound”:Ernest Holt diary, Nov. 10, 1920, ADAH.

113 “The animals themselves”:Rice, “Further Explorations in the North-West Amazon Basin,” p. 148.

113 “My strength quite”:For this quotation and all others from Murray on the 1911 expedition, see his diary, part of the William Laird McKinlay Collection at the National Library of Scotland.

115 “I thought that”:Holt diary, Nov. 22, 1920, ADAH.

116 As Costin warned:Costin to daughter Mary, Nov. 10, 1946, Costin Family Papers.

117 “greatest cruelty that faithless”:Quoted in Hemming, Search for El Dorado, p. 114.

117 “Every party”:Mrs. Letheran to Fawcett, Oct. 30, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers. 117 “the motive power”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Occult Life,” p. 93.

117 “There is no disgrace”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 163.

117 “Civilization has”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Renegades from Civilization,” n.d., Fawcett Family Papers.

118 “On such an expedition”:Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, p. 303.

118 “It develops into”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 60.

119 “Being unarmed”:Costin, Daily Chronicle (London), Aug. 27, 1928.

120 “By this time”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 169.

121 “I will not detail”:Costin, Daily Chronicle (London), Aug. 27, 1928.

121 “You know that”:Murray diary, Nov. 17, 1911, NLS.

121 “Murray is”:Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 31, 1911, RGS.

123 “I understand that”:Keltie to Fawcett, June 11, 1912, RGS.

123 “Everything that could”:Fawcett to Keltie, March 2, 1912, RGS.

123 “did not neglect”:Keltie to Hugh Mill, March 1, 1912, RGS.

123 “I am sure”:Keltie to Fawcett, June 1, 1912, RGS.

123 “So far they”:Fawcett to Keltie, May 10, 1912, RGS.

124 “What a dreadful”:Keltie to Fawcett, March 7, 1912, RGS.

124 “It's hell”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 153.

124 “He and Costin”:Ibid., p. 154.

124 in June 1913:On Murray's disappearance, see Niven, Ice Master.

C HAPTER 14: T HE C ASE FOR Z

129 In 1910:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Further Explorations in Bolivia,” p. 387.

129 “The moment”:Carvajal, Discovery of the Amazon, p. 438.

129 “Retire! Retire!”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “In the Heart of South America,” pt. 3, p. 552.

130 “One of these”:Costin to daughter Mary, n.d., Costin Family Papers.

130 Over the years:Costin's and Fawcett's recollections differ in some minor details.

130 Fawcett, for instance, remembered one of his colleagues eventually taking him across the river in a canoe.

130 “The Major made”:Costin to daughter Mary, n.d., Costin Family Papers.