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Charles Darwin age 22 embarks on the HMS beagle voyage as the ship captains assistant
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Darwin is exhilarated by first observations
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we have crossed the equator
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Darwin explores Brazilian rainforests for the first time
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Darwin was intrigued by the giant fossils he sees
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Captain Robert Fitzroy repatriates three native people he had brought to England on a previous voyage
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Darwin finds the barren windswept Falkland Island desolate and wretched
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Darwin explores the fertile lowland areas known as pampas with the local people or gauchos
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Darwin sees mount osomo erupt while on the island of Chiloe and experiences of the earthquake in the woods near Valdivia
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Darwin finds many species of plants brids and tortoises unique to the Galapagos islands but them seem mysteriously related to mainland species
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I reached home late last night my head is quite confused with so much delight
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on arrival in Sydney cove Darwin's first feeling was born an Englishmen it is a fine town
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Darwin studies coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation
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Darwin observed the greater part which is mimosas
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first objective in cape town which strikes the eye of stranger is the number of bullock wagons
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in the jungles of the south America Darwin discovers many incredible creatures