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Theodore Roosevelt

In 1913,  Theodore Roosevelt went to South America to visit his son, Kermit, who was living in South America at the time.  The reason he went to visit his son was because he was upset by the fact he lost the election in 1913, which was the after the third time he was elected president. While he was in Brazil with his son and Candido Rondon  and some of his men they went exploring on the River of Doubt. many people did not believe that Roosevelt and Rondon could chart the river of Doubt,but they sure proved those people wrong.The river was named this because it had been explored a few years before, but not explored thoroughly making it an unknown trip for anyone who was exploring.

   

Theodore Roosevelt was in his mid-50’s when he made this journey. The trip was long and difficult. Many of the men had malaria and it was almost fatal for them, including Teddy and Kermit. While Theodore had malaria and was overcome by pain he thought about injecting himself with morphine to end his pain, but his son talked him out of it. Other men did die during that journey, the group they went exploring with even had a murderer within their midst. Indian tribes attacked them and they had to survive dangerous waters, and canoes that didn’t even float well they had bought from the natives. People thought that everything the group had encountered was bad well Theodore Roosevelt might have thought this was the one of the worst things yet, during the evening while they were settling in for the night a snake fell out of a tree and bit Roosevelt in the foot, thankfully he had a leather boot on and it none of the venom got into his body.

Their journey on the River of Doubt was 1,000 miles long, a long distance for not knowing exactly how long or where you were going to end up at. After the long and dangerous trip the river was renamed the river  Roosevelt and a branch of he river was named the River Kermit after Teddie’s eldest son. Eventually Teddy and Kermit made it back to New York with minimal damage, however President Roosevelt thought that the malaria would take ten years of life out of him and he actually did end up passing away about ten years later.