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Charles darwin, aged 22, embarks on the HMS beagle voyage as the ship captains assistant
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Darwin is exhilarated by his first observations
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Darwin explores Brazilian rain forest for the first time
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Darwin is intrigued by the giant fossils he has seen
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Chaplin Robert Fitzroy repatriates three native people he had brought to England on a previous voyage. Fitzroy attempts to start a christian mission, which fails disastrously.
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Darwin finds the barren, windswept Falkland islands desolate and wretched. The Falkland were full of branchiopods- two- shelled animals once among the most abundant organisms on earth
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Darwin explores the fertile lowland areas known as pampas, with the local people or gauchos. A 1833
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Darwin sees mount Osborn erupt while on the island of chiloe and experiences the earthquake in the woods near Vivaldi,
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Darwin finds many species of plants, birds and tortoises of the Galapagos island, but they seem mysteriously related to mainland species.
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on arrival in Sydney cove, Darwin's first feeling was 'to congratulate myself that i was born an Englishman,, it is a fine town,'
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Darwin studies coral real frowning around islands to test his theory of atoll formation.
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"i took a quiet walk along the sea coast to th north of thr town; the plain is there quite uncultivated, consisting of a field of black lave smoothed over with coarse grass and bushes, the graeter part of which are mimosas,' abserves Darwin
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"I have as yet not mentioned the well know table mountain..."
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In the jungles of south america Darwin discovers many incredible creatures.
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"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.
