Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition and the Telegraph Line Commission

26 chapters

1. 1Preface32m
2. 2First Lecture, Introduction10m
3. 3First Lecture, Part 1. Origin of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition; Organization of the Brazilian Comission; Choice of routes submitted to mr. Roosevelt; selection of the one relative to the 15m
4. 4First Lecture, Part 2. Ascent of the River Paraguay to Corumbá; ratification of the hunting programme and the reconnoissance of the river Dúvida; Arrival at Corumbá; Hunting on the River Taquary Velho18m
5. 5First Lecture, Part 3. Jaguar hunting on the River São Lourenço; Visit to the cattle ranch Descalvado; Arrival at São Luiz de Cáceres; Pitching camp and hunting at Porto do Campo15m
6. 6First Lecture, Part 4. Ascent of the river Sepotuba and arrival at Tapirapoan; organization of the pack-train to cross the wilds of the Pareci and Nhambiquara indians; Subdivision of the expedition in14m
7. 7First Lecture, Part 5. Formation of a new sub-party for the exploration of the River Papagaio; chief occurrances during the voyage; Arrival of the Roosevelt-Rondon expedition at the River Juruena; Nha23m
8. 8Second Lecture, Part 1. Reconnoissance and exploration of the river Dúvida; Geographical features; Lieutenant Antonio Pyrineus de Souza’s party on the Aripuanã river; Mr. Roosevelt commences the work 26m
9. 9Second Lecture, Part 2. Exploration and survey of the river Dúvida from Passo da Linha, up to the place of meeting with Lieutenant Pyrineus’ auxiliary party; Affluents, waterfalls, rapids, mountain ra22m
10. 10Second Lecture, Part 3. Passing the rapids. Death of Simplicio. Adoption of the new name river Roosevelt. Rio Taunay28m
11. 11Second Lecture, Part 4. Difficulties of the voyage and serious incidents; Death of Seargent Paixão; Fevers and sickness of members of the party.35m
12. 12Second Lecture, Part 5. Identification of the Alto Castanha; Indian tribes29m
13. 13Second Lecture, Part 6. Meeting of the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition with Lieutenant Pyrineus’ party; The old Lower Aripuanã constitutes only the lower portion of the course of the river Roosevelt; Refe22m
14. 14Second Lecture, Part 7. Examination of the criticism of a Portuguese geographer; The river Roosevelt was for the first time mapped by the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition; Arrival of the expedition at Mana28m
15. 15Third Lecture, Part 1. Review of work done from 1907 to 1911: Exploration and reconnoitring of the general track of the telegraph line from Cuyabá to Santo Antonio da Madeira; Work of construction fro21m
16. 16Third Lecture, Part 2. Resume of the construction work from 1911 to December 1914; From Vilhena to José Bonifácio. Study of an alternative route of the 1909 track; Indian camps; visit to the village o30m
17. 17Third Lecture, Part 3. From José Bonifácio to Barão Melgaço, purveying by the river; exploration of the river Pimenta Bueno; discovery of the Kepikiri-uat Indians21m
18. 18Third Lecture, Part 4. From Barão Melgaço to Pimenta Bueno and thence to Arikemes; Indian tribes of the Gy-Paraná, Jarú and Jamary15m
19. 19Third Lecture, Part 5. Notes on the construction of the branch lines of Santo Antonio do Guajará-Mirim and from Parecis to Barra de Bugres; Indian tribes of these respective regions; habits and identi19m
20. 20Third Lecture, Part 6. Geographical exploration accompanied by notes relative to the Indian population existing in the valleys of the rivers explored; The sources of the river Paraguay15m
21. 21Third Lecture, Part 7. Affluents of the Guaporé; Basin of the river Madeira; Jacy-Paraná, Jamary and Gy-Paraná21m
22. 22Third Lecture, Part 8. Region comprised between the Gy-Paraná and the river Roosevelt; work of pacification of the Parintintis Indians20m
23. 23Third Lecture, Part 9. Lieutenant Marques de Souza’s expedition to reconnoitre the old river Ananaz; Basin of the Juruena-Tapajóz; Exploration of the large central catchment of this basin; reestablish42m
24. 24Third Lecture, Part 10. Exploration of the rivers Sangue and Papagaio24m
25. 25Third Lecture, Part 11. Exploration of the river Arinos21m
26. 26Third Lecture, Part 12. Exploration of the river formerly called São Manoel26m

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