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In 1831 Charles Darwin joined captain FitzRoy on the Beagle voyage around the world that was planned to take 2 years.
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at Darwin's first, stop he was so excited by everything he saw so he decided he should write about what he saw at every stop.
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Darwin explains the conditions he was faced after crossing the equator. The constable blindfolded him and he was put on a waterboard than he was tilted into a large bath of water.
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in Brazil, Darwin got to explore rain forests. He found them to be breathtaking and would wonder them for hours. He describes the grasses and flowers as striking.
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In Argentina, Darwin saw lots of fossils. They were huge and most of them were of animals he had never seen before.
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The caption of the ship sends three native people back to their homeland and he tried to start a Christian mission but fails.
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The Falkland Islands are not very interesting to Darwin. Not until he finds some fossils of brachiopods.
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Darwin explored the grassy lands with the natives called "gauchos"
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While on the islands Darwin sees Mont Osorno erupt and experiences an earthquake that affects him very strongly.
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Darwin found different animals, plants, and turtles. He was so amazed by the turtles because of how big they were that he even rode one. The iguanas would swim and eat in the ocean.
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In Australia, Darwin discovers different mammals than what he had seen before and wonders why.
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Here Darwin studied coral reefs and tested his theory of atoll formation.
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When Darwin was in Mauritius he once took a walk along the coast to town he came across a field of black lava smoothed over with grass.
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In Cape Town Darwin first saw a bunch of wagons and very tall mountains. Table Mountain was one that was 3,500 feet.
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Here Darwin explored jungles and the creatures that live in it. He was very home and seasick.
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Darwin was very relieved when he got home. The ship he was on was 90 feet long and held 74 people.