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Section | Title | Reader | Notes | Listen Url | Status |
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0 | Preface | KevinS | PL OK | ||
1 | First Lecture, Introduction | ToddHW | PL OK | ||
2 | First 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 Rio da Dúvida; Overland journey of the Chief of the Brazilian Comission from Rio de Janeiro to the mouth of the river Apa; The heads of the Brazilian and American Comissions meet on board the Paraguayan gunboat Riquielme; formation of the Roosevelt-Rondon Comission | ToddHW | PL OK | ||
3 | First 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 Velho and on the Fazenda de São José | cdspain | PL OK | ||
4 | First 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 Campo | cdspain | PL OK | ||
5 | First 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 into two parties; Voyage of this party as far as Utiarity; Pareci indians; Salto Belo Falls and the Utiarity Falls | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
6 | First 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; Nhambiquara indians; Continuation of the march from Juruena to José Bonifácio and arrival at Passo da Linha, the point where the telegraph line crosses the Dúvida | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
7 | Second 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 of the Expedition, still in doubt as to the direction and importance of the course of this river; building canoes on the river Ananaz | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
8 | Second 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 ranges, geological formations and forests of the river Dúvida | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
9 | Second Lecture, Part 3. Passing the rapids. Death of Simplicio. Adoption of the new name river Roosevelt. Rio Taunay | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
10 | Second Lecture, Part 4. Difficulties of the voyage and serious incidents; Death of Seargent Paixão; Fevers and sickness of members of the party. | TriciaG | PL OK | ||
11 | Second Lecture, Part 5. Identification of the Alto Castanha; Indian tribes | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
12 | Second 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; Reference to the problem of determining the principal source of a river; River Aripuanã; The river Roosevelt is composed of the united courses of the old Dúvida, Castanha and lower Aripuanã | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
13 | Second 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 Manaus; News of Captain Amílcar de Magalhães’ party; Descent of the river Amazon; arrival at Belém; Mr. Roosevelt’s departure for New York; Return of the chief of the Brazilian Comission | TriciaG | PL OK | ||
14 | Third 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 from Cuyabá to Vilhena, and from Santo Antonio to Jamary; The transport problem in the wilderness and its solution | Leni | PL OK | ||
15 | Third 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 of the Nhambiquaras | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
16 | Third Lecture, Part 3. From José Bonifácio to Barão Melgaço, purveying by the river; exploration of the river Pimenta Bueno; discovery of the Kepikiri-uat Indians | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
17 | Third Lecture, Part 4. From Barão Melgaço to Pimenta Bueno and thence to Arikemes; Indian tribes of the Gy-Paraná, Jarú and Jamary | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
18 | Third 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 identification of these Indians | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
19 | Third 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 Paraguay | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
20 | Third Lecture, Part 7. Affluents of the Guaporé; Basin of the river Madeira; Jacy-Paraná, Jamary and Gy-Paraná | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
21 | Third Lecture, Part 8. Region comprised between the Gy-Paraná and the river Roosevelt; work of pacification of the Parintintis Indians | RitaBoutros | PL OK | ||
22 | Third 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; reestablishment of the historical point of view regarding the extension of the course of the river Juruena as far as the mouth of the river Telles Pires; Exploration of the Iké river and what was found in its basin | TriciaG | PL OK | ||
23 | Third Lecture, Part 10. Exploration of the rivers Sangue and Papagaio | Leni | PL OK | ||
24 | Third Lecture, Part 11. Exploration of the river Arinos | Leni | PL OK | ||
25 | Third Lecture, Part 12. Exploration of the river formerly called São Manoel | TriciaG | PL OK |