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註釋History of the Comissão de Linhas Telegráficas Estratégicas de Mato Grosso ao Amazonas--commonly known as the Missão Rondon (Rondon Commission)--established in 1907, which constructed the first telegraph line across the Amazon Basin, surveyed and explored the northwest regions of Brazil, and encouraged the settlement of the region; Rondon "also implemented his policies governing relations with indigenous groups...in the region;" for detailed research on the Missão Rondon, see Todd A. Diacon, Stringing together a nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the construction of a modern Brazil, 1906-1930 (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004), especially Chapter 2, "Building the lonely line, 1907-1915," p. 19-51.