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1. Winter of 1913 Theodore Roosevelt took a trip to the river of doubt in brazil.
2. During the trip they came across many obstacles and Theodore thought about suicide but never did.

3.The men on the expedition were faced with many creatures such as poisonous snakes, piranhas, mosquitoes with diseases such as malaria.






4. During the trip most of the men got malaria and Theodore got a potentially deadly bacterial infection by slicing his leg open on a boulder.
5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

By: Lucas haberkamp, Nick Nowakowski, Ava Crawford, Eric Hotchkiss

Sources: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1207799-1,00.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4986859
http://www.enotes.com/topic/Kermit_Roosevelt