Theodore Roosevelt was at one point America’s youngest president, and a great man. He held office twice and was running for a third time when he decided to switch political parties. After he had done so he had many people that began to hate him but he also had people that still supported him. In the end of the election process though he had suffered a great defeat. After this he received news about an uncharted river. The information had come to him from Brazil’s minister of foreign affairs. He asked Roosevelt to take a trip and explore this uncharted land. He took his son with him because his wife asked him to go with. When they got to this river it was not at all what they expected. The river was full of piranha and dangerous fish. The water was swarming with mosquitoes and deadly bugs which carried malaria. The rapids from the river were extremely dangerous as well. One of their men had gotten pulled underneath the current at one point and dround. When the rapid was to steep to get over Roosevelt’s son had tied a rope to let the boats down safely. When malaria started hitting people they got fevers and started to become delirious. Men were starving as well because there animals had died so they had to put rations aside. One man had killed another one. At the end of the journey they were left with very few men but Roosevelt and his son were both still alive.
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