# Through the Brazilian Wilderness — Character guide

> Key figures in Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt.

- [Colonel Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/colonel_rondon.md): Rondon is the expedition's Brazilian spine: a sertanista who knows the backcountry, its peoples, and its rivers, and whose name Roosevelt inscribes with the words 'Gallant Officer, High-Minded Gentleman, and Intrepid Exp
- [Kermit Roosevelt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/kermit_roosevelt.md): Kermit enters the narrative in southern Brazil, fresh off a steel span that collapsed under him and left him with two broken ribs and a dislocated knee. He is not there as a president's son on display; he squats on the d
- [Theodore Roosevelt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/theodore_roosevelt.md): Roosevelt opens the book not with a summons to adventure but with a lunch at the American Museum of Natural History, where Father Zahm turns up unannounced and the Paraguay scheme revives. He frames the journey as scienc
- [George K. Cherrie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/george_cherrie.md): Cherrie is the expedition's most seasoned field man, an Iowa-born Vermont farmer whose wife once camped with him on the Orinoco and whose second child was born two hundred miles from the nearest white settlement. His pas
- [Leo E. Miller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/leo_miller.md): Miller arrives at Barbados from the Guiana forests, a young naturalist whose enthusiasm and writing both recommend him. On the river he and Cherrie trap tayras, opossums, and other small mammals, and he becomes the speci
- [Lieutenant João Lyra](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/joao_lyra.md): Lyra belongs to Rondon's cadre of Brazilian officers — Amilcar, Mello, Lauriadó, and the doctor Cajazeira among them — whose surveying and discipline make the expedition possible. Roosevelt inscribes the book to them as 
- [Anthony Fiala](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/anthony_fiala.md): Fiala is the expedition's quartermaster and photographer, a man whose quarter-century of arduous wilderness travel has taught him exactly what a party needs and how little of it they can carry. When Rondon inspected the 
- [Father Zahm](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/father_zahm.md): Father Zahm is Roosevelt's old crony — a fellow lover of Dante, history, and science — whose 1908 visit planted the seed of the whole adventure. When Roosevelt finally committed to the trip, Zahm had already decided to g
- [Julio](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/julio.md): Julio belongs to the expedition's working backbone — the men who handle boats, meals, and the unglamorous labor that keeps a party alive. His Brazilian background places him between Roosevelt's American naturalists and t
- [John D. Haseman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/john_haseman.md): Haseman is one of the museum men Roosevelt recruited to make the journey a collecting trip rather than a mere tour. His work — seining, preserving, cataloguing — gives the expedition a scientific purpose beyond adventure
- [Captain Amilcar de Magalhães](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/amilcar_magalhaes.md): Captain Amilcar is one of Colonel Rondon's trusted officers, lent to the expedition as both soldier and engineer. His training in mapping and river work makes him indispensable once the party leaves charted routes behind
- [Antonio the Indian](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/antonio_indian.md): Antonio belongs to the small corps of local men whose skills the expedition depends on once it enters the interior. His familiarity with the water, the forest, and the routines of river travel places him at the practical
- [Cartucho](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/cartucho.md): Brazilian boatman on the River of Doubt.
- [Jacob Sigg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/jacob_sigg.md): Swiss naturalist and taxidermist on the expedition.
- [Paishon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/paishon.md): Indigenous Parecís guide and interpreter.
- [Senhor Caripe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/senhor_caripe.md): Brazilian rancher who hosted the expedition.
- [Simplicio](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/simplicio.md): Brazilian boatman who drowned on the River of Doubt.
- [Lieutenant Joaquin de Mello Filho](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/through_the_brazilian_wilderness_se/characters/lieutenant_mello.md): Brazilian army officer on the expedition.

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