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Beagale voyage
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Plymouth England
Charkes Darwin,aged 22, embarks on the HMS Beagle viyage as the ship captain's assistant. The misery I endured from seasickness is far beyond what i ever guess at -
Cape Verde Islands
Darwin is exhilarated by hus first observations . It then first dawned on me that i might perhaps write a book on the geology of the various countries visited , and this made me thrill with delight -
Salvador Brazil
Darwin explores Brazillian rainforest for the first time 'Here i first saw a tropical forest in all its sublime grandeur... I never experienced such intense delight; he is enraotured by the experience' i have been wandering by myself in a brazillian forest -
Punta alta Argintina
Darwin is intrigued by the giants fossils he sees 'i have been wonderfully lucky with fossil bones. Some of the animals must have been of great dimensins! i am almost sure that many of them are quite new. -
Falkland islands
Darwin finds the barrem, windswept falkland islands deoslate and wretched' but he perks up when cracks open some 'primitive looking rocks and find fossils. the falklands were full of brachiopods two shelled animals once among the most abundant organisms on earth -
Rio Negro Argentina
Darwin explores the fertile lowland areas, known as pampas with the local people or gauchos. 'There is high enjoyment in the independence of gaucho life- to be able at any moment to pull up horse -
Chiloe' island, Chile
Darwin sees Mount Osomo erupt while on the island of Chiloe' and experiences the earthquake in the woods near Valdivia. seeing the aftermath of the earthquake affected him Tremendously. 'I believe this earthquake has done more in degrading or lessening the size of the island, Than 100 years of ordinary wear and tear -
Galapagos Islands
darwin finds many species of plants, birds and tortoises unique to the galapagos islands , but they seem mysteriously related ti mainland species. -
Sydney Australia
On arrival insydney cove, Darwin's first feeling was 'to congratulate myself that i was born an englishman... it is a fine town.
marvelling at marsupails, Darwin wonders why there is a completely diffent set of mammals in austrailia -
Mauritius
i took aquiet walk along the sea coast to the north of the town; the plain is there quite uncultivated. consisting of a field of black lava smoothed over with coarse grass and bushes, the greater part of which are mimosas observes Darwin -
Cocos Islands
Darwin studies coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation' iam glad we have visited these islands; such formation surely rank high amongst the wonderfil objects of this world -
Cape Town , South Africa
the first object in cape town which strikes the eye of a stranger, is the number of bullock wagons... i have as yet not mentioned the well known table mountain; this great mass of horizontally stratified sandstone rises quite close behind the town to a height of 3,500 feet -
Bahia and Pernambuco, South America
In the jungles of south America darwin discovers many incredible creatures. -
Falmouth England
I reached home late last night. My head is quite confused with so much delight
the beagle ship was only 27m long and carried 74 people, and 22 clocks,in very close quarters -
Crossing the equator
we have corssed the equator, and i have undergone the disagreeable operation of being shaved... the constable blindfolded me and thus lead along, buckets of water were thundered all around. -
Tierra Del fuego , Argentina
Captian Robert FitzRoy repariates three native people he had brought to england on a previous voyage. FitzRoy attempts to start a christian mission, which fails disastrously
