Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). Through the Brazilian Wilderness. 1914.
Subject Index
Stockton, Frank R., stories by, 192 |
Store, the first, 334 |
Sunsets, contrasted, 203 |
Surveying, method of, 250, 251; instruments for, Appendix B, 388 |
Swallows, 164 |
“Swiss Family Robinson,” 78 |
Tamandu&á bandeira. See Anteater. |
Tanageira, Doctor, 270 |
Tapajos, the, 134, 135, 187, 189, 216, 247, 347 |
Tapirapoan, 136, 158; start upstream for, 160; arrival at, 165; party divides at, 170; 172 |
Tapirs, 138, 140, 142–144, 146; curious relation of horse and, 147 |
Tapirs, River of. See Sepotuba. |
Taquary, the, 66 |
Taunay River, 296, 349 |
Telegraph, establishment of, 158; wages paid for work on wilderness lines of, 159, 193; spiders swarm on, 239 |
Telegraphic Commission, 157, 165, 181, 210; work of, 217; Juruena first mapped by, 220; labor of, 327; solution of River of Doubt mystery made possible by previous work of, 348 |
Tents, 214, 247; Appendix B, 368 |
Thermometers, Appendix B, 390 |
Tools, Appendix B, 387, 388 |
Tragedy, a terrible, 311–317 |
Transportation, 189 |
Travellers, status of the ordinary, 176–178; ignorance of certain, 261; three categories of, Appendix A, 353–357 |
Trees, 49, 50, 74; taruman, 81; flowers on, 100; 139; fig, 149; 160–164, 179, 190; fossil trunk of, 234; 235, 251; barriers formed by, 253; bee, 263; rubber, 235, 275, 292; araputanga, 287; fruit of cajazeira, 291; peculiarity of, 293; 300. See Palm. |
Tree-toad, 264 |
Tres Burity, government ranch at, 239, 242 |
“Trigueiro,” one of the dogs, 67, 275, 277, 323 |
Tropics, entered the, 49; iron cruelty of life in the, 151 |
Turtle, land, 160; river, 322 |
“Twelfth of October,” 235 |
University of Pennsylvania, a Paraguayan graduate of the, 48 |
Uruguay, 9 |
Utensils, Indian, 209, 244, 245 |
Utiarity Falls, 186; arrival at, 200; telegraph station at, 201; beauty of, 201, 202, 206 |
Vaqueiros, 106, 126, 145 |
Viedma, Lake, 29 |
Vilhena, 235–239 |
Vines, 100, 114 |
Vireo, 234 |
Wallace, 345 |
Wasp, orioles’ nests surrounded by, 102; dangerous sting of red, 118; spiders preyed on by, 121; maribundi, 137, 150, 251; ants plunder nests of, 168 |
Weapons, Indian, 209, 245 |
Weasel, tayra, 99 |
Weather, 60, 65, 96, 112, 160, 170, 306 |
Wilderness, party enters the, 209; difficulties of travel in, 215; etiquette of the, 240; first stage of conquest of the, 334; geographical and zoological work still to be done in the, Appendix A, 358 |
Wolf, red, 77, 127 |
Woods, 235 |
Wrens, ant, 167, 168 |
Xingu, 189, 347 |
Zahm, Father, 1, 2, 5; children baptized by, 57; 132; Colonel Roosevelt reminded of his wish to shoot tapir and jaguar by, 144; 162, 186, 205; returns to Tapirapoan, 207 |
Zoologist, work of field, in South America, Appendix A, 353, 358 |