One day, after Theodore Roosevelt lost the election in 1913, his son Kermit, he, and a group of explorers went to Brazil in the river of doubt to explore. The river was over 1,000 km long. There were many issues including poisonous snakes, 15 feet piranhas, deadly insects, Indian attacks, and malaria. Theodore Roosevelt even thought about suicide. Also there were many different rapids and obstacles they had to overcome in order to survive, although some of the men did die. Kermit knew how to use ropes to save them from falling to fast down the rapids this saved their lives in many cases.
During the trip they joined forces with an explorer named Candido Rondon from Brazil. Had to abandon their canoes and leave the river and head into the jungle, and proclaimed every man for himself when Roosevelt could barely walk with his leg that was cut and infected with malaria. That night in the jungle George Cherrie, naturalist, and Kermit, watched over the ex-president as he said that they could go on without him.
Roosevelt set to sail to South America in the fall of 1913, while there in his secluded home in Ostermier Bay New York he struggled fighting off depression and despair from his permanent diseases.
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