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Charles Darwin voyages on a hms beagle voyage at the age of 22 . as the ship captains assistant. Darwin is shocked at the amount of sea sickness he is enduring.
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Darwin is shocked at his first observation. it dawned on him that he might perhaps write a book on the geology of the various countries he visited, and this made thrill with delight
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Darwin crossed the equator and has undergone the disagreeable operation of being shaved... the constable blindfolded him and thus lead along, buckets of what were thundered all around; he was then placed on a plank which could be easily titled up into a large bath of water... the whole ship was a shower bath
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Darwin explores Brazilian rainforests for the first time. he first saw a tropical forest in all its subline grandeur. he is amazed by the experienced. the general luxuriance of the vegetation bears the victory, the elegance of the grasses.
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Darwin was intrigued by the giant fossils he sees. Darwin was lucky to find fossil bones some of the animals must have been great dimensions. he was sure that many of them are quite new
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Captain Robert Fitz roy repatriates three native people he had brought to England on a previous voyage. Fitzroy attempts to start a Christian mission, which fails dangerously.
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Darwin finds the barren, windswept Falkland islands desolate and wretched . but he perks up when he cracks open some primitive looking rocks and finds fossils. The falklands were full of brachiopods- 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 "guachos". there is high enjoyment in the independence of the guacho life - to be able at any moment.
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Darwin finds many species of plants, birds and tortoises unique to the Galapagos islands, but they seem mysteriously related to mainland species
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darwim sees mount osoma 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.
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on arrival in Sydney cove, darwins first feeling was to congratulate himself that he was born an Englishman. marveling at marsupials, Darwin wonders why there is a completely different set of mammals in Australia
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darwing studies coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation. he was glad he visited these islands; such formations surely 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; the plain is there quite uncultivated, consisting of a field of black lava smoothed over with coarse grass and brushes
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the table mountain ; this great mass of horizontally stratified sandstone rises quite close behind the town to a height of 3500 feet says Darwin.
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Darwin reached home where he said his head is quite confused with so much delight (the beagle ship was only 27m, 90 ft long, and carried 74 people, and 22 clocks, in very close quarters)
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in the jungles of south America Darwin discovers many incredible creatures. however, both homesick and seasick, he is dismayed when the beagle makes an unscheduled detour to make additional longitude measurements.
