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Charles Darwin joined captain FitzRoy on the HMS Beagle.
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Darwin exhilarated by his first observation.First dawn on him to write a book on the geology of various countries visited.
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Darwin was shaved and was bathed.
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Darwin explores brazil rainforest for the first time.
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Darwin is intrigued by the giant fossils he sees.
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Captain Robert Fitzroy repatriates three native people he had brought to England and attempts to start Christian mission which falls.
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Darwin finds the barren, windswept Falkland Islands. feeling they are desolate and wretched, he perks up when he cracking open some primitive looking rocks and finds fossils.
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Darwin explores fertile lowland with the local people or gaucho’s.
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Darwin sees Mount Osorno erupt and experience an earthquake in the woods near Valdivia. Seeing the aftermath affected him tremendously.
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contuines to explores.
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Darwin finds many species of plant birds and tortoises unique to the island. Darwin is stunned to learn back in London that the Galapagos specimens were actually all finches.
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continuation of prevouse point in timeline.
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He arrives in Australia
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Darwin studies the coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation.
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Darwin observes mimosas after a long walk along the sea coast to the north of the town.
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Darwin writes first object in cape town that strikes the eye of a stranger, numerous bullock wagons. Also the height of Table Mountain is great mass of horizontally stratified sandstone.
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Darwin discovers many incredible creatures. Both homesick and seasick he is dismayed when the beagle makes unscheduled detour.
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Reach home with the delight.