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68 the sunless gorge The adjective, borrowed from “Kubla Khan,” is TR’s.
69 “Bôa Esperança” Rondon, Lectures, 109.
70 Dr. Cajazeira noted Millard, The River of Doubt, 323; KR diary, 5 Apr. 1914 (KRP).
71 “Am in a” KR diary, 4 Apr. 1914 (KRP).
72 “Tenente!” Rondon, Lectures, 114. Reminiscing in old age to Esther Vivieros, Rondon gave Julio’s cry as “Senhor Coronel!” (“Mr. Colonel!”). His early recall is more likely to be accurate.
73 The sound of Rondon, Lectures, 114; Vivieros, Rondon, 417; see also TR, Works, 6.294–95.
74 After a record Rondon, Lectures, 110–11.
75 “The expedition is” Vivieros, Rondon, 417–18 (trans. author). See also Rondon, Lectures, 114–15. The earlier account is much more discreet.
76 “Shut up!” Vivieros, Rondon, 417. TR’s explosion is quoted in English.
77 “the duty of” Rondon, Lectures, 114. An ailing Kermit, in his diary entry for this day, states that Rondon and Lyra had been “in a blind rage to kill” Julio three days before. If so, Rondon may have imputed some of his own excitement to TR when relating the incident to Vivieros. But all sources agree that after discovering Julio’s dropped rifle, Rondon declined to pursue him.
78 “Let the law” Vivieros, Rondon, 418. See also TR, Works, 6.294–95.
79 Julio did not show Rondon, Lectures, 115.
80 It was pleasant TR, Works, 6.298–99; Vivieros, Rondon, 418. The phrase “gleam like tossing silver” is TR’s.
81 Roosevelt ate little Cherrie diary, 8 Apr. 1914 (AMNH); Cherrie, Dark Trails, 305–6.
82 Rondon doubted Rondon, Lectures, 110, 113; Millard, The River of Doubt, 322; Cherrie diary, 8, 10 Apr. 1914 (AMNH); TR, Works, 6.307. “There were a good many days,” Cherrie remarked afterward, “… when I looked at Colonel Roosevelt and said to myself, he won’t be with us tonight: and I would say the same thing in the evening, he can’t possibly live until morning.” Cherrie in TR, Works, 6.xix.
83 Maple buds TR, Works, 6.301–2, 307.
84 “How I longed” Ibid., 6.300.
85 On 14 April Rondon, Lectures, 118; TR, Works, 6.303.
86 he had a violent Rondon, Lectures, 117; Millard, The River of Doubt, 332–33; KR diary, 14, 15 Apr. 1914 (KRP).
87 an old black fisherman Rondon, Lectures, 119; Cherrie diary, 15 Apr. 1914 (AMNH).
88 “But is he truly” Rondon, Lectures, 119. (Retranslated from the Portugese original, 100.)
89 When Roosevelt Rondon, Lectures, 119.
90 Dr. Cajazeira was Millard, The River of Doubt, 322–23; KR diary, 16 Apr. 1914 (KRP); Kermit Roosevelt, Happy Hunting Grounds, 48; TR, Works, 6.306; Cherrie diary, 21 Apr. 1914 (AMNH).
91 It took another Cherrie diary, 26 Apr. 1914 (AMNH).
92 Early in the Rondon, Lectures, 67–68.
93 The lieutenant had Rondon, Lectures, 167; Cherrie diary, 26 Apr. 1914 (AMNH); TR, Works, 6.318–19. Pirineus was the officer who lost part of his tongue to a piranha, in the anecdote told by TR on 309.
94 It was agreed Despite Rondon’s efforts, the Rio Roosevelt quickly became known as the “Rio Téodoro,” which was easier for Brazilians to pronounce. TR himself preferred the more informal name, and allowed it to be engraved in the map of South America prepared for his book Through the Brazilian Wilderness. See the frontispiece to TR, Works, 6. The river’s official name remains Rio Roosevelt.
95 The dedicatee seemed less moved KR diary, 26 Apr. 1914 (KRP).
96 When the American Vivieros, Rondon, 421; Cherrie diary, 28 Apr. 1914 (AMNH). He added, “Col. Roosevelt does not improve nor gain strength as rapidly as we had hoped.”
97 Roosevelt’s estimate TR, Works, 6.320; TR to Anthony Fiala, 8 July 1915 (AMNH).
98 “some small achievement of worth” See 346.
99 At 2:30 P.M. Cherrie diary, 29, 21 Apr. 1914 (AMNH); KR diary, 28 Apr. 1914 (KRP). According to Rondon, TR was in such pain during this voyage that he spent most of it lying facedown—“not a position in which he could write his notes.” Vivieros, Rondon, 421.
100 Each man to his TR, Works, 6.308.
101 Roosevelt did not Vivieros, Rondon, 421–22; KR diary, 29 (actually, 30) Apr. 1914 (KRP).
102 “Father about” KR diary,