Teddy Roosevelt Article 3

Article 3: In December 1913, Roosevelt, then 55, and a small group of men embarked on a journey to explore and map Brazil's River of Doubt. From the start, the expedition took a turn for the worse. Just three month’s into the expedition, Roosevelt was relying on his LAST tent listening to the roaring river. His body sick and exhausted, Roosevelt realized this experience would soon take his life. In just a few days, Roosevelt had developed a serious case of malaria, at many times, Roosevelt became delirious. Roosevelt had also developed a potentially deadly bacterial infection after slicing his leg on a boulder. At the same time his leg began to swell and become severely red. His temperature soured up to a 105 degree F. His life would not look pretty after all this, they luckily survived and got to the end of the river on April 27th, 1914.