The River of Doubt (50 page)

While working on
KR to Belle Willard, Sept. 15, 1912, KBRP.

“in quite as good health”
TR to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, Nov. 11, 1913, TRC.

“Dear Kermit”
Belle Willard to KR, Nov. 3, 1913, KBRP.

“I don’t remember”
KR to Belle Willard, n.d., KBRP.

“Kermit is as much”
TR to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 10, 1913, TRC. 68. Edith, however Morris,
Edith Kermit Roosevelt
.

While they were still in Bahia
KR to Belle Willard, n.d., KBRP.

Roosevelt had always seemed
Ethel, Roosevelt’s younger daughter, had been in New York with Belle when she had heard the news, cried out by a paperboy hawking the “extras,” or special editions, that indicated urgent dispatches. “We had been to the theater,” Belle wrote Kermit soon afterward, “and after we got back heard an ‘Extra’ called. Ethel went to the window but couldn’t make out what it was. She said, ‘Extras frighten me so but I will not be foolish about it this time. Let’s go to bed.’ The next morning I woke only to find her dressed. She had just gotten a note … telling her not to worry as they did not think her father was seriously hurt. I shall never forget Ethel’s face as she dashed out.” (Belle Willard to KR, Oct. 1912, KBRP.)

“It was a bad”
KR to Belle Willard, Nov. 26, 1912, KBRP.
69.

“I did not like”
TR to Eleanor Roosevelt, Dec. 10, 1913, TRC.

“It just doesn’t seem”
KR to Belle Willard, n.d., KBRP.

“We would have”
KR to Belle Willard, Nov. 26, 1913, KBRP.

On the morning
Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon,
Lectures Delivered on the 5th, 7th, and 9th of October, 1915
(Rio de Janeiro, 1916).

Born in the remote
Donald F. O’Reilly, “Rondon: Biography of a Brazilian Republican Army Commander,” Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1969.

The War of the Triple Alliance
Ibid.

Orphaned at the age
Lucien Bodard,
Green Hell
(New York, 1971).

He woke up
O’Reilly, “Rondon.”

Rondon lost an entire year
Bodard,
Green Hell
.

“I want to bring”
Quoted in ibid.

Rondon was a member
João Cruz Costa,
A History of Ideas in Brazil
(Berkeley, Calif., 1964).

“the respectful heirs”
O’Reilly, “Rondon”.

His math teacher
Ibid.; Costa,
History of Ideas
.

Although he was
E. Bradford Burns,
A History of Brazil
(New York, 1993).

Less than six months
O’Reilly, “Rondon.”

Rondon was supposed to have
Ibid.

In 1903
Ibid.

Assignment to Rondon’s unit
Todd A. Diacon,
Stringing Together a Nation
(Durham, N.C., 2004).

He had started out
O’Reilly, “Rondon.”

“monstrously fecund”
Ibid.

In some places
Rondon,
Commissão de Linhas Telegraphicas Estrategicas de Matto Grosso ao Amazonas
, vol. 1.

By late August
O’Reilly, “Rondon”; Theodore Roosevelt,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
(New York, 1914).

By the time
Rondon,
Relatório
, vol. 1; TR,
Through the Brazilian
Wilderness
.

237 days
O’Reilly, “Rondon.”

Rondon was not
Rondon,
Lectures
.

Roosevelt had learned
Bodard,
Green Hell
.

“as if it were”
Kermit Roosevelt,
The Long Trail
(New York, 1921).

It would be a measure
Joseph R. Ornig,
My Last Chance to Be a Boy
(Mechanicsburg, Pa., 1994).

“bathed in the”
Cherrie,
Dark Trails
.

Although Corumbá
J. C. Oakenfull,
Brazil in 1913
(Frome, England, 1914).

“For ambulance service”
Cherrie,
Dark Trails
.

“It was a brilliantly”
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

Rondon had gone
Cherrie,
Dark Trails
.

“What a Xmas Eve!”
George Cherrie,
Diary
, Dec. 24, 1913, AMNH.

Kermit confessed
KR to Belle Willard, Dec. 24, 1913, KBRP.

“The priest is”
Ibid.

“On several occasions”
Theodore Roosevelt,
An Autobiography
(New York, 1913).

“We did not hear”
“Personal Glimpses,”
Literary Digest
, May 16, 1914, TRC.

Tapirapoan consisted
Leo E. Miller,
In the Wilds of South America
(New York, 1918).

“almost at will”
Theodore Roosevelt,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
(New York, 1914).

Rondon had arranged
Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon,
Lectures
Delivered on the 5th, 7th, and 9th of October, 1915
(Rio de Janeiro, 1916).

The problem was
Todd A. Diacon,
Stringing Together a Nation
(Durham, N.C., 2004).

Amilcar, despite his
Amilcar Botelho de Magalhães,
Impressão da Commissão
Rondon
.

“apparently fresh from”
Miller,
In the Wilds
.

“constantly engaged”
John Zahm,
Through South America’s Southland
(New York, 1916).

“The oxen aren’t”
KR to Belle Willard, Jan. 20, 1914, KBRP.

“Intervention must”
Quoted in Frederick S. Calhoun,
Power and Principle: Armed Intervention in Wilsonian Foreign Policy
(Kent, Ohio, 1986).

“constant preoccupation”
Rondon,
Lectures
.

Not only were the
Ibid. In a letter to John Scott Keltie, the secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, Roosevelt admitted that he thought the lavish saddle and bridle among these gifts were “exquisitely unfit for such a trip,” but he had no choice but to accept them graciously. “I would have given deep offense to very good and kind people if I had not used them,” he wrote. (TR to Keltie, Feb. 25, 1915, in
Letters
, vol. 8.)

On January 19
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

But Rondon also wanted
Rondon,
Lectures
.

“Away from the broad”
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

By the next morning
Zahm,
Through South America’s Southland
; TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

“The whole region”
Theodore Roosevelt, Address to National Geographic Society, May 26, 1914, NGS.

“Until Tapirapoan”
Cajazeira,
Relatório
, Museu do Índio, Rio de Janeiro.

Meals usually consisted
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
; KR to Edith Roosevelt, Feb. 8, 1914, KBRP.

“all nearly famished”
George Cherrie,
Diary
, Jan. 21, 1914, AMNH.

“It was rarely”
Zahm,
Through South America’s Southland
.

There was no way
Miller,
In the Wilds
.

For the men in
Zahm,
Through South America’s Southland
.

Strewn across
Ibid.

“What became of”
Ibid.

Three Brazilians
Rondon,
Lectures
.

Julio de Lima
In his official military report on the expedition, Amilcar would
sum Julio up in four simple words: “Beautiful muscles, dreadful feelings!” (Magalhães,
Impressão da Commissão Rondon
.)

“squatted in the Yedo”
Rondon,
Lectures
.

“English, Portuguese”
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

“told of the stone gods”
Ibid.

“It was while”
Ibid.

The supply ship
Anthony Fiala, “Two Years in the Arctic,”
McClure’s Magazine
, Feb. 1906.

The trucks, which belonged
Miller,
In the Wilds
.

According to Rondon
Esther de Viveiros,
Rondon: Conta Sua Vida
(Rio de Janeiro, 1958).

“Truth to tell”
Zahm,
Through South America’s Southland
.

“Whites, Indians”
Ibid.

“ignorant and careless negro”
John Zahm to TR, March 14, 1914, TPR.

“measure of how much”
Viveiros,
Rondon: Conta Sua Vida
.

“The colonel possesses”
Todd A. Diacon, “Are the Good Guys Always Bad?” Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Alabama, 1998.

“Our great”
John Zahm,
Evolution and Dogma
(Chicago, 1896).

“Although the Indian Service”
Viveiros,
Rondon: Conta Sua Vida
.

Three had drowned
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

“A good doctor”
Ibid.

More than a decade earlier
Quoted in Kathleen Dalton,
Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life
(New York, 2002).

“never gotten over”
Kermit Roosevelt,
The Long Trail
(New York, 1921).

“must be on hand”
Quoted in Dalton,
TR: A Strenuous Life
.

“You see he”
KR to Belle Willard, n.d., KBRP.

“utterly miserable”
TR to Quentin Roosevelt, Jan. 16, 1914, in
Letters
, vol. 7.

The young woman
Unnamed newspaper, Jan. 3, 1914, TRC.

“Margaret drank only”
Quoted in Sylvia Jukes Morris,
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady
(New York, 1980).

“Poor Henry Hunt”
Edith Roosevelt,
Diary
, Jan. 5, 1914, TRP.

Heavy sheets of rain
Theodore Roosevelt,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
(New York, 1914).

Little more than a clearing
John Zahm,
Through South America’s Southland
(New York, 1916).

Whenever the downpour
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

“Why they do not”
Ibid.

Even before reaching
Leo E. Miller,
In the Wilds of South America
(New York, 1918).

In Tapirapoan alone
Joseph R. Ornig,
My Last Chance to Be a Boy
(Mechanicsburg, Pa., 1994).

Only one of the men
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
. Today, the river’s name is spelled “Jiparaná.”

“It seemed to me”
Miller,
In the Wilds
.

“When I get back”
TR to Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jan. 5, 1914, AMNH. 103. “Father Zahm has now” KR to Edith Roosevelt, Jan. 3, 1914, KBRP.

“All for each”
Theodore Roosevelt,
An Autobiography
(New York, 1913).

“no real harm”
KR to Edith Roosevelt, n.d., KBRP.

“Of our whole expedition”
TR to Edith Roosevelt, Dec. 1913, TRP.

Borrowing from Psalm
44 John Zahm to TR, June 3, 1912, TRP.

“Win or lose”
TR to John Zahm, June 6, 1912, TRP.

Manáos
Modern-day Manaus.

“through the heart”
John Zahm to Albert Zahm, Jan. 5, 1914, CAZA 4/09.

Given the discomforts
Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon,
Lectures Delivered on the 5th, 7th, and 9th of October, 1915
(Rio de Janeiro, 1916).

Father Zahm reassured him
Ibid.

“Indians are meant to carry”
Esther de Viveiros,
Rondon: Conta Sua Vida
(Rio de Janeiro, 1958).

“The colonel’s Positivism”
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

One night during
Rondon,
Lectures
.

Finally, after what
Viveiros,
Rondon: Conta Sua Vida
.

“Father Zahm is being”
KR to Belle Willard, Jan. 31, 1914, KBRP.

The next day
Roosevelt memo, Feb. 1, 1914, TRP. Euzebio Paul was a Brazilian member of the expedition. L. Oliveira was a geologist.

First a team
of Todd A. Diacon,
Stringing Together a Nation
(Durham, N.C., 2004).

“as big-hearted”
Miller,
In the Wilds
.

In the tender light
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

Before they left camp
Miller,
In the Wilds
.

Kermit had developed
Kermit Roosevelt,
Diary
, Feb. 10, 1914, KBRP.