The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1914-05-23
ROOSEVELT BACK
Colonel Returns frC1 Amazon
Punched and Lean.
CLAIMS HE DISCOVERED RIVER
Promises Planning for Lanrer-col-
onel's Plight on Amazon Became So
Desperate He Urged Others to Go on
and Leave HIm-sufered from In
juries and Malaria.

and Leave fim-SuHercd from IN
juries and Malaria.
NEW YORK. The steamship
Aidan. decorated from stern to stern
and bringing Theodore Roosevelt from
Brazil, reached quarantine at 340 D.
m. Tuesday.
The colonel boarded the tug on
which members OF his family waited,
unassisted. He looked bit pinched
and lean, but said that he was nearly
we'll He said he has had q slight re-
currence OF malaria and that he had
lost iifty-five pounds, but had gained
considerable on the trip up.
81 am still worth several dead men,"
said the colonel, his bronzed cheeks
showing many traces OF the strain of
the hardships and the dangers he has
endured. But the fact was learned
that the colonel and the members OF
his party were near death from starya-
tion and that the colonel himself was
SO III at one time that 1t was feared
that he never would reach civilization
alive. ---sl%sA. a. - .l.l- IA So.
Delirious with fever almost covered
with fever sores, and the wound in
his right leg so terribly festered that
II was necessary to lance It to the
bone, the colonel felt himself a draw.
back TO his party after most Of the
provisions had been lost and some OF
the provisions had been lost and some
OF the canoes sunk IN the rapids or
the River OF Doubt. Then as he could |
not make hundred feet a day, he
urged HIS comrades. including his son. |
Kermit, two naturalists and the Brazil. |
ians who accompanied him, to 90
ahead and leave him to take care or |
himself. 4.,-....- ,.-..a. ,s.
coIonel's Terrible Experience.
The desperate experiences OF the
party occurred between April and |
Is First the colonel was stricken |
with the jungle fever after the party
had met with several mishaps He |
fought his way down the river, how
ever, and when another canoe was
overturned and was in danger OF be |
ing swept away. the colonel jumped In
to the river himself. He saved the |
canoe. but he gashed HIS leg severely |
The insects poisoned II and the fever |
aggravated the wound still more.
He and the members OF his party, |
with their food supplies almost gone.
made their way. however, but when
the colonel reached Manaos on the |
Amazon, he still was so weak that he |
could not walk. He had lost sixty |
pounds and he was exceedingly de. |
pressed in spirits as the result Of the /
stress OF body and mind through which |
he had been. The country through |
which he had been, scientists agree, is
to most dangerous in the world from a
viewpoint of disease.
While Colonel Roosevelt and his
companions, Leo u. Miller and George
X. Cherrie declined to go into vivid |
details OF their experiences, II was
plain that they had not shaken off the
strain of the jungle and that they
shook themselves with JOY at being
back home, alive and well once more.
NldiH1S ne DISCOVERED hlNeF
The colonel was exuberant. He met
questions about the "River OF Doubt"
With a snap OF the jaws and as for A.
Henry Savage Lander who denied the
existence OF the river the colonel an
nounced he had contribution to
make TO Mr.. Lander's biography"
That is said to be letter which Col.
onel Rondon, Mr.. Roosevelt's guide I'm
the jungles, has written.
There was no discussion Of politics
down the bay except for the colonel
to deny emphatically that he had given
out any interview at Barbados in
which he said that IL he ran for presi.
dent in 1916, II would be on a Pro
gressiye platform which the Republi.
cans must accept He announced with
equal emphasis that he will not run
for governor this fall