ILLUSTRATIONS 



Colonel Roosevelt and Colonel Rondon at Navaite on the 



River of Doubt - - Frontispiece 



Photogravure from a photograph Try Clierrie. 



FACING PAGE 



Group — The mussurama swallowing the jararaca or fer-de- 

 lance, after having just killed it. Method of the mus- 

 surama's attack upon the jararaca - - 24 



Man-eating fish, piranha - 40 



Group — Indian boy with coati (coon-like animal) and para- 

 keet. Tupi girl with young ostrich. Indian girl at 

 cooking-pot - - - 46 



Group — Indians rolling logs at wood station. Palms along 



the bank of the river - - - - 48 



Cattle on the upper Paraguay River - - 66 



Group — Nips with the marsh deer. Returning to the 



fazenda (ranch) with the marsh deer on the saddle - 74 



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 - - 76 



Group — A South American puma. A South American 



jaguar ------- 80 



Group — Nine -banded armadillo. Capybaras. Collared 



peccary ... . . 86 



The entire party on the way back to the ranch - 90 



