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Charles Joins the Beagle
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Darwin is exhilarated by his first observations
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Darwin is intrigued by the fossil he sees.
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Captain Robert FitzRoy repatriates three native people voyage
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Darwin finds the barren, windswept Fakland Islands 'dsolate 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 Chile and experiences the earthquake in the woods near Valdivia.
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Darwin finds many species of plants, birds and tortoises unique to the Galapagos Islands.
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On arrival in Sydney Cove, Darwin's first feeling was 'to congratulate myself that i 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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'I 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 bushes, the greater part of which are mimosas,' observers Darwin.
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'the first object in Cape Town which strikes the eye of a stranger, is the number of bullocks wagon.
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In the jungles of South America, Darwin discovers many incredible creatures.
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The beagle ship was only 27m (90 feet) long and carried 74 people, and 22 clocks, in very close quarters!