Word: dãºvida
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...offered him a rare opportunity: a chance to explore an unmapped river in the heart of the rain forest. So mysterious was this tributary that even the man who had discovered its headwaters five years earlier had no idea where it went and so had named it Rio da Dúvida--the River of Doubt...
...RIVER OF DOUBT CANDICE MILLARD When he felt a little down, nothing picked Theodore Roosevelt up like a near suicidal adventure. In 1914, smarting from having lost the presidency to Woodrow Wilson, he undertook the descent of the scarily named Rio da Dúvida, the River of Doubt, an unmapped tributary of the Amazon. Millard charts the trip Roosevelt called his "last chance to be a boy," which was a calamity. The travelers were beset by piranhas; starvation; rapids; malaria; mutiny; Indians with poison-tipped arrows; and tiny Amazonian fish that attack the, um, loins. In the dark of the jungle...
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