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6 “Kermit landed” TR, Works, 6.234–35.
7 The jungle was lovely Descriptive passages in this chapter adhere closely to those of TR in Through the Brazilian Wilderness. (TR, Works, 6.233ff.) Details supplied by Rondon, Cherrie, and Kermit Roosevelt are attributed when important.
8 Roosevelt had the TR, Works, 6.236; KR diary, 27 Feb. 1914 (KRP); Vivieros, Rondon, 408.
9 He studied TR, Works, 6.237.
10 a big affluent KR diary, 28 Feb. 1914 (KRP); TR, Works, 6.237.
11 “very good eating” TR, Works, 6.239.
12 After twenty kilometers Rondon, Lectures, 72–73.
13 Curls, falls, ponds TR, Works, 6.241. Rondon named these rapids Navaitê, after a tribe of Indians thought to be living in the area.
14 There was nothing Rondon, Lectures, 74; TR, Works, 6.242–43; KR diary, 3 Mar. 1914 (KRP).
15 The next one TR, Works, 6.243–44. The camaradas were classified as “regional volunteers” by the Brazilian Telegraphic Commission, and highly paid for their trouble.
16 On the morning Cherrie diary, 11 Mar. 1914 (AMNH); Rondon, Lectures, 79.
17 There were spells Rondon, Lectures, 77; TR, Works, 6 passim.
18 When he floated Rondon-Naylor interview, The New York Times, 6 Jan. 1929. Rondon added: “He was what we Brazilians call a pandego (man of constant good humor).”
19 “I never saw” Ibid.
20 descent into the TR, Works, 6.245; Rondon, Lectures, 79. Rondon listed 114 survey stations along the Dúvida.
21 By midday The following account synthesizes the sometimes conflicting testimonies of TR in his Works, 6.257–59, and Rondon in his Lectures, 80–83, supplemented by Vivieros, Rondon, 409–10.
22 Rondon ordered Rondon, Lectures, 80.
23 Kermit and Simplício clambered TR’s account, based on what KR told him, makes no mention of Simplício’s presence on the upturned boat.
24 All of this Cherrie, Dark Trails, 289.
25 “Well, you have” Rondon, Lectures, 81.
26 He no longer made Ibid.
27 It was clear Diacon, Stringing Together a Nation, 43, notes that Rondon suppressed his rage against KR in later published accounts of the expedition, no doubt to avoid distressing TR.
28 AQUI PERECEU Rondon, Lectures, 83; Vivieros, Rondon, 410.
29 To him, it said Rondon, Lectures, 83; Vivieros, Rondon, 410; TR, Works, 6.259.
30 The portage began Rondon, Lectures, 86; TR, Works, 6.260–61.
31 Rondon examined Candice Millard has revealed that the Indians living alongside the Dúvida in 1914 were the cannibalistic Cinta Larga. Millard, The River of Doubt, 223–31.
32 Later that TR, Works, 6.260.
33 Every dispensable possession Ibid., 6.262–63.
34 “Our position” Ibid., 6.264; Rondon, Lectures, 87–88; Cherrie diary, 16 Mar. 1914 (AMNH); TR, Works, 6.264.
35 Rondon decided Millard, The River of Doubt, 154–62 and passim; Rondon-Naylor interview, The New York Times, 6 Jan. 1929.
36 On behalf Cherrie diary, 18 Mar. 1914 (AMNH); Rondon, Lectures, 87–89; TR, Works, 6.267. According to Armelle Enders, it was actually Lauro Müller’s idea to honor TR in this way. Enders, “Theodore Roosevelt explorateur,” 9.
37 Roosevelt was taken TR, Works, 6.268.
38 There was little Cherrie diary, 19 Mar. 1914 (AMNH); Cherrie, Dark Trails, 297.
39 One morning Rondon, Lectures, 92. Millard, The River of Doubt, 245 misdates this conversation.
40 “First of all” The following dialogue is quoted in Vivieros, Rondon, 411 (trans. author). See also Rondon, Lectures, 91–92, and Diacon, Stringing Together a Nation, 44–45.
41 Clearing skies Cherrie, Dark Trails, 298; TR, Works, 6.278 and passim.
42 On 27 March Cherrie diary, 27 Mar. 1914 (AMNH); TR, Works, 6.xx, 281–82, 296.
43 Twelve years before Morris, Theodore Rex, 141–49. In September 1908, TR told KR that his shin had never really healed. Kermit Roosevelt, The Long Trail, 37–38.
44 in the summer of 1910 See 610.
45 three black vultures Cherrie diary, 27 Mar. 1914 (AMNH); Cherrie, Dark Trails, 308.
46 There was a KR diary, 28 Mar. 1914 (KRP); Cherrie, Dark Trails, 308; TR, Works, 6.282–83.
47 The Americans overruled Rondon, Lectures, 99–100; KR diary,