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22 year old Darwin joined Captain FitzRoy on the HMS Beagle as ship's naturalist for a trip around the world
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First observations where made at Cape Verdan Islands
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darwin explores brazillian rainforest for the first time
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They have crossed the equator, now darwin was going through the disaggreable operation of being shaved. they blindfolded him and thus lead along
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Darwin is intrigued by the fossils he has seen here. He believes some of the animals must have been of great dimensions and is very sure that many of them are new
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Captain Ropbert FitzRoy sends three native americans back. after he had brought them to england. He then attempts to start a christian mission but he fails.
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Darren finds primitive looking rocks and finds fossils. The Falklands were full of brachiopods- two-shelled animals once among the most abundant organisims on earth
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Darwin explores the fertile lowland areas
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Darwin sees Mount Osomo erupt while on the island of Chiloe' and experiences the earthquake in the woods. He believes this earthquake has done more in lessening the size of the island
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Darwin finds many species of plants, birds, and tortoises but they seem related to mainland species.
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When they arrived to syndey cove, darwin congraluated himself because he was born an englishman
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Darwin studies coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation
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Darwin observed along the sea coast to the north. He described seeing a plain quite uncultivated, consisting of a field of black lava smoothed over with coarse grass and bushes.
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Darwin states, "i have not mentioned the Table mountain; this great mass of horizontally stratified sandstone rises quite close behind the town to a height of 3,500 feet"
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in the jungle of south america darwin discovers many incredible creatures. he never had a chance to stay longer the ship was ready to leave
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Darwin reached home
