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Charles Darwin at age 22 recently graduated Charles joined captain Fitzroy on the HMS beagle, instead of the planned 2 years the voyage took nearly 5 years.
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Charles Darwin age 22 embarks on the HMS beagle to voyage as the ship captains assistant. "the misery i endured from seasickness is far beyond what i ever guessed at".
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Darwin is exhilarated by his 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".
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Darwin explores Brazilian rainforests for the first time, he never experienced such intense delight he wondered all around the brazilian rainforest looking at all the objects.
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Darwin is intrigued by the giant fossils he sees "I've been lucky with fossil bones, some animals must have been from great dimensions he was almost sure that many of them were quiet new.
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Captain Fitzroy repatriates three native people he brought to England from a previous trip, Fitzroy attempts to start a christian mission which fails disastrously.
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we have crossed the equator and i undergone the disagreeable of being shaved, the constable blindfolded me and thus lead along, buckets of water were thundered all around, i was then placed on a plank, which could be easily tilted into a large bath.. the whole ship was a shower bath" Captain Fitzroy says.
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Darwin explores the fertile lowland areas, known as pampas, with locals or "gauchos" there is high enjoyment in the independence of the gaucho life.
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Darwin sees Mount Oromo 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 he believed the earthquake degrading or lessening the size of island than 100 years of ordinary wear and tear.
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Darwin finds many species of plants,birds and tortoises unique to the galapagos islands, but they seen mysteriously related to mainland species, he's fascinated and amused by the Galapagos tortoise.
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On the arrival in Sydney cove Darwin wonders why there is a completely different set of mammals in Australia.
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Darwin studies coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation "I'm glad we visited these islands, such surly rank high amongst the wonderful objects of this world.
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Darwin took a quiet walk along the sea coast to the north of the town, 'there is quite uncultivated, consisting of a find of black lava smoothed over with coarse grass and bushes, the greater part of which are mimosas' says darwin.
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The first object to strike the eye of strangers is the bullock wagons i haven't mentioned the Table Mountain the great mass of horizontally stratified sandstone rises quite close behind the town hight of 3,500 feet.
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In the jungles of South America darwin discovers many incredible creatures, however both homesick and seasick, he dismayed when the beagle makes an unscheduled detour to make longitude measurements,"i loathe, i abhor the sea, and all ships which sail on it.
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Darwin reaches home late last night "my head is quite confused with so much delight". The Beagle ship was only 27m (90 feet) long and carried 74 people and 22 clocks in very close quarters