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Devonport, England
After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831. -
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Darwins Journey
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Cape Verde, Porto Praya
The neighbourhood of Porto Praya, veiwed from the sea, wears a desolate aspect. The volcanic fires of a past age, and the scorching heat of a tropical sun, have most places rendered the soil unfit for vegetation. -
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In the morning we got under way, and stood out of the splendid harbour of Rio de Janeiro. In our passage to the Plata, we saw notyhing in particular, excepting on one day a great shoal of porpoise, many hundreds in numder. -
Maldonado, Uruguay
The Beagle sailed from Maldonado, and on August 3rd she arrived off the mouth of the Rio Negro. -
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Beagle arrived here on the 24th of August, and a week afterwards sailed for the Plata. -
Port St. Julian, Argentina
Everything on this southern continent has been effected on a grand scale: the land, from Rio Plata to Tierra del Fuego, a distance of 1200 miles, has been raised in mass, within the period of the now existing sea shells. -
Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Having now finished with Patagonia and the Falkland Islands. -
Bay of S. Carlos, Chile
On Jan. 15th we sailed from lows harbour, and three days later anchored a second tim in the Bay of S. Carlos in Chiloe. -
Valdivia, Chile
Feb. 20th.- This day is memorable in the annuals of Valdivia, for the most severe earthquakes experienced by the oldest in habitant. -
Concepcion, Chile
We entered the harbour of Conception. While the ship was beating up to the anchorage, I landed on the island of Quiriquina. The mayor-domo of the states quikly rode down to tell me the terrible news of the great earthquake of the 20th; "That not a house in Conception or Talcahuano (the port) was standing." -
Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
This archipelago consists of ten principle islands, of which five exceed th eothers in size. They are situated under the Equator, and between five and six hundred miles westward of th coast of America. -
Tahiti Island, French Polynesia
At daylight, Tahiti, an island which must for ever remain classical to the voyager in the South Sea, was in view. At a distance the appearance was not attractive. -
Sydney, Australia
Early in the morning a light air carried us towards the entrance Port Jackson. Instead of bholding a verdant country, interspersed with fine houses, a straight line of yellowish cliff brought to our minds the coast of Patagonia. -
Cocos Islands
We arrived in view of the Keeling or Cocos Islands, situated in the India Ocean, and about six hundred miles distant from the coast of Sumatra. -
Port Louis, Mauritius
We sailed from Port Louis, and, calling at the Cape of Good Hope, on the 8th of July we arrived off St. Helena. This island, the forbidding aspect of which has been so often described, rises abruptly like a huge black castle from the ocean. -
Ascension
On the 19th of July we reached Ascension. -
Falmouth, England
On the 2nd of October we made tthe shore, of England; and at Falmouth I left the Beagle, having lived on board the good little vessel nearly five years.
