Notes - The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha - page 423

18. Da Cunha to Dilermando de Assis, undated 1906, Rio.
19. De Assis, Tragédia da Piedade . This is corroborated in the deposition given by Ana.
20. Ana Solon da Cunha in Galvão and Silva Neto, Crónica , 127.
21. De Assis, Conselho de guerra .
22. Ana Solon da Cunha in Galvão and Silva Neto, Crónica , 127.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., 127-28.
25. Ibid., 128.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. De Assis and de Andrade, Ana de Assis , 53-54.
30. Tostes and Brandão, Aguas de amargura .
31. Da Cunha to Henrique Coelho, Rio, July 30, 1906.
32. Ana Solon da Cunha in Galvão and Silva Neto, Crónica , 129.
33. Da Cunha to Firmo Dutra, Rio, July 9, 1906.
34. Da Cunha to Manuel da Cunha, Rio, July 24, 1906.
35. The letters to Ana from Dilermando are transcribed in de Assis and de Andrade, Ana de Assis ,
47-53.
36. Da Cunha to H. Coelho, Rio, June 30, 1906.
37. See Hecht and Cockburn, Fate of the Forest .
38. For a more detailed analysis of the events surrounding the railroad and its tycoons, see ibid.
39. Da Silva, Madeira-Mamoré-Martírios ; Ferreira, Ferrovía do diabo .
40. Da Cunha to Oliveira Lima, Rio, May 23, 1906.
41. Da Cunha to Firmo Dutra, Rio, September 30, 1906.
42. Da Cunha to Francisco Escobar, Rio, December 31, 1906.
43. Ana Solon da Cunha in Galvão and Silva Neto, Crónica , 129.
44. Ibid.
45. Da Cunha to Otaviano Vieira, Rio, July 4, 1907.
46. Ana Solon da Cunha in Galvão and Silva Neto, Crónica , 129.
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*1. This refers to Michelangelo's ecstasy at his own creation: upon finishing one piece, he cried
“Parla!” exhorting the statue to speak.
1. Peru and Maurtua, Juicio de límites entre el Perú y Bolivia ; Peru, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteri-
ores, Perú ; Santos-Granero and Barclay, Selva central .
2. Santos-Granero and Barclay, Tamed Frontiers .
3. Renan, Qu'est-ce qu'une nation? , in Forest 1991.
4. Cañizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World , 204-6.
5. Burns, Unwritten Alliance ; Dennison, Joaquim Nabuco ; Rivière, Absent-Minded Imperialism . Rio
Branco had placed the abolitionist Joaquim Nabuco in charge of this adjudication, and though he was
antislavery he was also anti-Indian. Since the British argument was based on human rights and fair
treatment of the natives (and the excellent mapping work of Schomburgk), that adjudication was mis-
handled.
6. Da Cunha to Francisco Escobar, Rio, June 13, 1906.