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EKR, 12 Jan., 8 Feb. 1914; Zahm, Through South America’s Southland, passim; John Cavanaugh, “Father Zahm,” Catholic World, Feb. 1922. Zahm’s gushy prose style is unreadable now, but his breadth of scholarship continues to impress. He is venerated at his alma mater for enriching its theological curriculum with scientific studies (symbolically, he made Notre Dame the nation’s first electrically lit college campus), and for endowing it with his personal Dante collection, one of the top such archives in the United States.

32 Kermit did not know Zahm, Through South America’s Southland, 428; TR estate tabulation file, 7 Mar. 1920 (SCR).

33 Father Zahm was sorry KR diary, 6–7 Jan. 1914 (KRP); Zahm, Through South America’s Southland, 460; TR, Works, 6.xv; Millard, The River of Doubt, 34.

34 Roosevelt spent his last This paragraph paraphrases TR’s own account in Works, 6.123–24.

35 A gasoline launch George Cherrie diary, 6–7 Jan. 1914.

36 The two commanders TR, Works, 6.128; Diacon, Stringing Together a Nation, 43. The military-propaganda aspects of the expedition are noted by Armelle Enders in “Theodore Roosevelt explorateur,” 1.

37 Rondon’s “commission” See Dominichi M. de Sá, Magali Romero Sá, and Nísia Trindade Lima, “Telegraphs and an Inventory of the Territory of Brazil: The Scientific Work of the Rondon Commission (1907–1915),” História, Ciêncas, Saúde-Manguinhos, 15.3 (July–Sept. 2008), http://www.scielo.br/. Commission members not named were Dr. Euzébio de Oliveira (geologist), Henrique Reinisch (zoologist), Dr. Fernando Soledade (entomologist), Arnaldo Blake de Sant’anna (taxidermist), Frederico Hoehne (a botanist of international repute), Lieutenants Alcides Lauriodó and Joaquin Mello Finho (general duty), and Thomaz Reis (cinematographer).

38 Roosevelt’s team For Fiala’s disastrous record as an Arctic explorer, see Millard, The River of Doubt, 31–32. KR, a natural linguist, had found himself thinking in Portuguese for at least six months. KR to ERD, 2 June 1913 (ERDP).

39 his Swiss servant For more on the mysterious Sigg, see Zahm, Through South America’s Southland, 463, 498–500, and Millard, The River of Doubt, 46–47.

40 an opportunity to hunt KR diary, 8–10 Jan. 1914 (KRP); TR, Works, 6.129, 132–45; Zahm, Through South America’s Southland, 462.

41 After dinner TR, Works, 6.136.

42 At first sight Ibid., 6.155ff.; Zahm, Through South America’s Southland, 474; Miller, In the Wilds, 225.

43 It did not look TR, Works, 6.156; Cherrie diary, 18 Jan. 1914 (AMNH); TR, Works, 6.151.

44 Roosevelt had begun TR, Letters, 8.905; TR, Works, 6.160. TR’s tent came complete with a floor rug.

45 Rondon and Lyra Diacon, Stringing Together a Nation, 36; Millard, The River of Doubt, 34.

46 This was too much Diacon, Stringing Together a Nation, 43; Cherrie, Dark Trails, 247; TR, Works, 6.224. The resignations of Hoehne, Soledade, Blake de Sant’anna, and Reis became formal on 23 Jan. 1914. Reinisch stayed with the expedition. De Sá et al., “Telegraphs.”

47 On 19 January TR, Works, 6.160. TR mentions only one Canadian canoe here. There were in fact two, as he confirms on page 300.

48 Sixty-four other TR, Works, 6.160, 163; Vivieros, Rondon, 388; Rondon, Lectures, 37.

49 If the Dúvida Miller, In the Wilds, 240.

50 We were now TR, Works, 6.161.

51 He left Robert Bridges to cut Bridges did not do so.

52 Next morning TR, Works, 6.168.

53 The command detachment Rondon, Lectures, 38; Miller, In the Wilds, 226; KR diary, 29 Jan. 1914 (KRP).

54 A daily camp rhythm Miller, In the Wilds, 230; Zahm, Through South America’s Southland, 378; TR, Works, 6.169–70; Rondon-Naylor interview, The New York Times, 6 Jan. 1929.

55 “one felt” Zahm, Through South America’s Southland, 479.

56 By now Kermit KR to EKR, 12 Jan., 8 Feb. 1914 (KRP); Miller, In the Wilds, 225. It is possible that Lizzie was the “giant land turtle” mentioned in TR, Works, 6.

57 Zahm was alarmed Zahm, Through South America’s Southland, 479–80; Vivieros, Rondon, 389.

58 Relief for him Miller, In the Wilds, 227; TR, Works, 6.173–74. Despite Zahm’s eagerness to travel