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 |