Notes - The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha - page 422

*1. This section includes three da Cunha fragments that pertained to this journey but were not pub-
lished as part of the report. I have added an endnote for each to indicate the insertion and provide a full
citation.
*2. These were redacted in the original. Other dates and distances shown as blanks and dashes also
were redacted.
*3. Euclides da Cunha's cousin.
*4. This is the shortened name for Nicolas Zavalos e Zavelos, the second lieutenant and subchief of
the Peruvian commission.
*5. This Brazilian engineering joke is often repeated when an obstacle must be confronted: one either
overcomes it or blows it up. It also involves a pun, montar and dismontar .
1. Da Cunha, “A minha terra e retilinea e alto como as palmeiras,” in da Cunha and Tocantins, O
Paraíso Perdido , 2nd ed., 208-9.
2. Da Cunha, “As promessas divinas de esperança,” in da Cunha and Tocantins, O Paraíso Perdido ,
2nd ed., 210-12.
3. Da Cunha, “Uma entrevista,” in da Cunha and Tocantins, O Paraíso Perdido , 1st ed., 274-78.
Chapter 18
*1. Tarimbeiro wastheterm usedformilitary menwhoendedupbetraying theemperor.Inthissetof
insults it refers to the general treachery of her nature.
1. Da Cunha telegram to Rio Branco, Manaus, October 19.
2. Da Cunha to Jose Veríssimo, November 8, 1905.
3. Da Cunha to Rio Branco, November 10, 1905.
4. Ibid.
5. The term “love nest” is Dilermando's. Dilermando de Assis, Conselho de guerra .
6. Ibid.
7. Judith de Assis and de Andrade, Ana de Assis .
8. This debate unfolded between the de Assis faction, including Dilermando de Assis ( A tragédia da
Piedade ) and later Judith de Assis, daughter of Ana and Dilermando, in her 1987 memoir (de Assis and
de Andrade, Ana de Assis ) and the da Cunha side through a descendant of Manuel Afonso da Cunha,
Joel Bicalho Tostes, who, in collaboration with the da Cunha scholar Adelino Brandão, produced the
1990 Aguas de amargura as a counterpoint to the narrative supplied by Judith. They supplied some
damning documents, including Ana's birth certificate showing she was four years older than she
claimed (and with a lover seventeen years her junior a little fudging on age is certainly understandable)
and accounts from the Bazaar America.
9. De Assis, Conselho de guerra .
10. J. de Assis and de Andrade, Ana de Assis .
11. Ana de Solon da Cunha, in Galvão and Silva Neto, Crónica , 126.
12. Ibid. 127.
13. Ibid.
14. Manuel da Cunha to Euclides da Cunha, June 26, 1905.
15. Euclides da Cunha to Manuel da Cunha, Rio, February 14, 1906, Rio.
16. De Assis, Tragédia da Piedade .
17. Tostes and Brandão, Aguas de amargura .