The River of Doubt (54 page)

“Mr. Kermit will not”
Ibid.

“The topographical survey”
Rondon,
Lectures
.

At 7:00 a.m.
Theodore Roosevelt,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
(New York, 1914).

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

The Brazilian colonel did not
Ibid.

“Our position”
George Cherrie,
Diary
, March 23, 1914, AMNH.

As Rondon had learned
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

As big as a bumblebee
Andrew Speilman and Micheal D’Antonio,
Mosquito
(New York, 2001).

A botfly maggot
John Kricher,
A Neotropical Companion
(Princeton, 1997).

The real menace
Speilman and D’Antonio,
Mosquito
.

Once she has found
Ibid.

Malaria was the danger
Todd A. Diacon,
Stringing Together a Nation
(Durham, N.C., 2004).

Just four years earlier
Ibid.

He had only one
Robert S. Desowitz,
The Malaria Capers: Tales of Parasites
and People
(New York, 1991).

The Brazilian doctor
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

To be truly effective
Desowitz,
Malaria Capers
.

The first sign of malaria
Speilman and D’Antonio,
Mosquito
.

Since contracting the disease
Will Irwin, ed., Introduction,
Letters to Kermit
from Theodore Roosevelt
(New York, 1946).

He had had several attacks
Kermit Roosevelt,
Diary
, March 19, 1914, KBRP.

Until the expedition reached
Cajazeira,
Relatório
, Museu do Índio, Rio de Janeiro.

“The very pathetic myth”
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

“There is a universal saying”
Kermit Roosevelt,
The Long Trail
(New York, 1921).

“responsible to the law”
Ibid.

Roosevelt had witnessed
Ibid.

“Their clothes were”
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

“He wrote every day”
“Col. Roosevelt As His Guide Remembers Him,”
New York Times
, Jan. 6, 1929, TRC.

“the best camp companion”
George Cherrie, “Roosevelt in the Field,” May 26, 1927, AMNH.

Cherrie had just taken
George Cherrie,
Dark Trails
(New York, 1930).

“Day after day”
Cherrie, “Roosevelt in the Field,” AMNH.

“We talked together often”
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

He had gone to work
Cherrie,
Dark Trails
.

Cherrie took a bland
Ibid.

South American insurrections
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

“They say that”
Rondon,
Lectures

He was a sergeant
Ibid.

When Paishon accepted
Esther de Viveiros,
Rondon: Conta Sua Vida
(Rio de Janeiro, 1958).

In fact, since the expedition
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness

He shamelessly begged
Ibid.

The only incentive
Rondon,
Lectures
.

“Julio came crying”
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

“On such an expedition”
Ibid.

Antonio Correia
Theodore Roosevelt,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
(New York, 1914).

“probably means many more”
George Cherrie,
Diary
, March 25, 1914, AMNH.

The skies had been clear
Cherrie,
Diary
, March 26, 1914, AMNH.

“as big as cables”
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

On that day
Ibid.

One of the camaradas also caught
Cherrie,
Diary
, March 26, 1914, AMNH.

Rondon’s meticulous charting
Cherrie,
Diary
, March 24, 1914, AMNH.

On the day after
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

Cherrie had wandered
Cherrie,
Diary
, March 27, 1914, AMNH.

The two boats were pinned
Ibid.

Roosevelt was the first
George Cherrie,
Dark Trails
(New York, 1930).

Six years later, while he was riding
Kermit Roosevelt,
The Long Trail
(New York, 1921).

Although the water level
George Cherrie, Memorial Meeting, March 1, 1919, TRC.

When they reached
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

As the river roared
KR,
Long Trail
.

“From that time on”
Cherrie, Memorial Meeting, March 1, 1919, TRC.

When the men had finally
Cherrie,
Dark Trails
; TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

It was 4:00 p.m.
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

“Practically everything”
Cherrie,
Dark Trails
.

After fighting their way
Kermit Roosevelt,
Diary
, March 28, 1914, KBRP.

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

It was immediately apparent
Ibid.

Cherrie wrote that he
Cherrie,
Dark Trails
.

“Many cases have been”
Arkady Fiedler,
The River of Singing Fish
(London, 1951).

did not “utter a word”
Cherrie,
Dark Trails
.

“No man has any business”
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

When he was a rancher
Theodore Roosevelt,
An Autobiography
(New York, 1913).

“Both the men of my”
Ibid.

When a doctor
John Milton Cooper,
The Warrior and the Priest
(Cambridge, Mass., 1983).

“quite content to go now”
Kathleen Dalton,
Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life
(New York, 2002).

“I had always felt”
TR,
Autobiography
.

“The truth is”
Quoted in Cooper,
The Warrior and the Priest
.

To John Barrett
John Barrett,
The Call of South America
(New York, 1922),

“I have always”
Oscar King Davis,
Released for Publication
(Boston, 1925).

Just before dawn
Cherrie,
Dark Trails
.

They were not prepared
New York Times
, March 23, 1914.

The article had been sparked
Ibid.

The newspaper did its best
Ibid.

Earlier in the year
Sylvia Jukes Morris,
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady
(New York, 1980).

“Can you obtain”
Quoted in
New York Times
, March 24, 1914.

Spanish-American War
Edward Renehan,
The Lion’s Pride
(New York, 1999).

Kermit had succeeded
TR to Ethel Roosevelt Derby, Dec. 10, 1913, TRC.

From her hotel in Madrid
New York Times
, Jan. 4, 1914, KBRP.

A few days after Fiala’s
Washington Post
, March 28, 1914, KBRP.

“I have sent you”
Belle Willard to KR, n.d., KBRP.

On the overland journey
Theodore Roosevelt,
Through the Brazilian
Wilderness
(New York, 1914).

“The desert has always”
KR to Belle Willard, Nov. 20, 1913, KBRP.

“You must be getting”
KR to Belle Willard, Jan. 31, 1913, KBRP.

Even Roosevelt’s sister Bamie
Quoted in Kathleen Dalton,
Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life
(New York, 2002).

Kermit, who had been
Quoted in J. J. Perling,
Presidents’ Sons: The Prestige
of Name in a Democracy
(New York, 1947).

“melancholic streak”
Quoted in Dalton,
TR: A Strenuous Life
.

“one with the white head”
Edith Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, Oct. 5, 1913, TRC.

“odd and independent”
Quoted in Peter Collier with David Horowitz,
The
Roosevelts: An American Saga
(New York, 1994).

“He never need retire”
Quoted in Hermann Hagedorn,
The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill
(New York, 1954).

While at Groton
Quoted in Dalton,
TR: A Strenuous Life
.

In childhood, Elliott
Blanche Wiesen Cook,
Eleanor Roosevelt
, vol. 1 (New York, 1992).

When their father died
David McCullough,
Mornings on Horseback
(New York, 1981).

“Elliott gave unstintedly”
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson,
My Brother
Theodore Roosevelt
(New York, 1921).

“He was so mad”
Quoted in Edmund Morris,
The Rise of Theodore
Roosevelt
(New York, 1979).

Four years later
Cook,
Eleanor Roosevelt
, vol. 1.

Theodore wrote to Bamie
TR to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, July 29, 1894, in
Letters
, vol. 1.

“I only need”
Quoted in McCullough,
Mornings on Horseback
.

“more overcome”
Quoted in Dalton,
TR: A Strenuous Life
.

When Kermit was at Groton
In 1902, after receiving several reports on Kermit’s schoolwork that were less than sterling, Roosevelt had sent his then thirteen-year-old son a letter clearly intended to shake him out of his lethargy. “I do not like your having so many black marks,” he had written from the White House. “As you know, I have much sympathy for some kinds of mischief, but there are other kinds with which I have no sympathy at all.” (TR to KR, Nov. 24, 1902, TRC.)

After leaving Harvard
Morison,
The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt
, Elting E. Morris, ed. (Cambridge, Mass., 1951–1954).

“I do not like”
Quoted in Collier with Horowitz,
The Roosevelts
.

“We worked hard”
TR to Archie Roosevelt, Feb. 27, 1910, in
Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children
(New York, 1919).

“It came to me”
Oscar King Davis,
Released for Publication
(Boston, 1925).

“Kermit,”
Roosevelt would later Theodore Roosevelt,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
(New York, 1914).

Lyra had come to respect
Ibid.

“everything except the food”
Kermit Roosevelt,
Diary
, March 28, 1914, KBRP.

Roosevelt kept only
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

“The work was not only”
Ibid.

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

While Kermit and Lyra struggled
George Cherrie,
Dark Trails
(New York, 1930).

On the third day
George Cherrie,
Diary
, March 30, 1914, AMNH.

To add to
Rondon,
Lectures
.

The storm even
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

The men began
Cherrie,
Diary
, April 2, 1914, AMNH.

“Instead of getting out”
Ibid.

During that month
TR,
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
.

“No one can tell”
Ibid.

“We had to cheer them”
Ibid.

“In the weeks”
Cherrie,
Dark Trails
.

Early on, Roosevelt
New York Times
, Jan. 6, 1929, TRC.

He began to give
George Cherrie, Memorial Meeting, March 1, 1919, TRC.

“A sense of gloom”
Cherrie,
Dark Trails
.

On March 30
KR,
Diary
, March 30, 1914, KBRP.