xiv ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING PAOE 



Rapids of the Duvida - - - - - 252 



Dragging the canoes over a portage by means of ropes and 



logs . - - - . - 256 



Group — Manner of dragging the canoes across a hilly portage. 



Making the big canoe which was soon afterward lost 258 



Group — ^The Upper Duvida. Cherrie in his canoe - 268 



Group — Red-and-yellow macaw. Egret. Curassow. Hya- 



cinthine macaw. Toco toucan. Trumpeter - 276 



The river rushed through a wild gorge, a chasm or canyon, 



between two mountains - 288 



Groups — Rapids at the chasm. We bathed and swam in 



the river, although in it we caught piranhas 298 



Group — Castanho-tree (Brazil-nut). Pacova-tree - 304 



Group — At the rubber-man's house. The canoe rigged with 

 a cover, under which Colonel Roosevelt travelled when 

 sick - ..... 310 



The camaradas, gathered around the monument erected by 



Colonel Rondon - - 320 



MAPS 



Map showing the entire South American journey of Colonel 



Roosevelt and members of the expedition - - 1 



Map forwarded by Lieutenant Lyra, showing the route of the 

 expedition, and the positions of the new river and of 

 the Gy-Parana, and of the upper tributaries of the 

 Juruena . , _ . _ Q^g 



