Teddy Roosevelt

In December of 1913 Roosevelt and a small group of men went on an expedition to Brazil’s River of Doubt. They knew this adventure was wrong and dangerous.  He was there for three months. As America’s youngest president at the time, he was suffering from malaria and possible deadly bacteria on a cut on his leg. He then received a fever of 105. Him and his group members were tired, hungry and exhausted. He decided to keep going and make it back. While they were crossing the river bank, which took them a month. There were razor piranhas. Roosevelt would have died if it wasn't for his thick boots that protected him from a deadly snake bite. Indian tribes in the rain forest hunted and killed their dog. They reached the end of the river on April 27, 1914