ILLUSTRATIONS 



Colonel Roosevelt and Colonel Rondon at Navaite on the River of 



Doubt Frontispiece 



Photogravure from a photograph by Cherrie. 



FACING PAGE 



Group — The mussurama swallowing the jararaca or fer-de-lance, after 

 having just killed it. Method of the mussurama's attack upon the 

 jararaca 24 



Man-eating fish, piranha 42 



Group — Indian boy with coati (coon-like animal) and parakeet. Tupi 



girl with young ostrich. Indian girl at cooking-pot 48 



Group — Indians rolling logs at wood station. Palms along the bank of 



the river 5° 



Cattle on the upper Paraguay River 58 



Group — Nips with the marsh deer. Returning to the fazenda (ranch) 



with the marsh deer on the saddle 76 



Group — The brown boy on the long-horned trotting steer, which he 

 managed by a string through its nostril and lip. Colonel Roosevelt 

 and the first jaguar 80 



Group — A South American puma. A South American jaguar .... 84 



Group — Nine-banded armadillo. Capybaras. Collared peccary ... 88 



The entire party on the way back to the ranch 92 



An Indian village 102 



We passed an Indian fishing village on the edge of the river, with huts, 

 scaffoldings for drying the fish, hammocks, and rude tables. 



Group — Wood ibis. South American jabiru. Sariema 106 



Group — A jabiru's nest. A troupial nest 118 



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