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just age 22 darwin embarks on the HMS beagle voyage where he was the ship captain's assistant
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exhilarated by his first observations which he than stated " it then first dawned me that I might perhaps write a book on the geology of the various countries visited which made me thrill with delight "
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once they crossed the equator , he undergone the disagreeable operation of being shaved. Buckets of water was thundered all around and later was placed on a plank where it can be easily tilted up into a large bath of water. As Captain FitzRoy writes " In most ships , the disagreeable practice alluded to has been permitted because sanctioned by time and though may condemn it as an absurd and dangerous piece of folly ; it has also many advocates .
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As he explores the Brazilian rainforests for the first time, He wrote " Here I first saw a tropical forest in all its sublime grandeur where i never experienced such intense delight and also is enraptured by the experience. Among the multitude some of the set of the hardest objects are most striking where the general luxuriance of the vegetation bears the victory , the elegance of the grasses , the novelty of the parasitical plants , the beauty of the flowers ".
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As he sees giant fossils , he is intrigued . " I have seen wonderfully lucky with fossil bones and some of the animals must have been great dimensions while he was almost sure that most of them was quite new '.
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As captain Robert FitzRoy brought three native people on a previous voyage , he attempts to start a Christian mission where he fails disastrously .
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Known as the local people or gauchos , Darwin explores the fertile lownland areas which are the Pampas . In the gauchos life , there is high enjoyment of the independence where they are able to any moment to pull up your horse .
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While Darwin is on the island of Chiloe' he sees Mount Osomo erupt and an earthquake in the woods near Valdivia where as seeing the aftermath of the earthquake affected him tremendously. He said " I believe this earthquake has done more in degrading or lessening the size of the island , than 100 years of ordinary wear and tear "
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Some of the things that Darwin find that is unique to the Galapagos Islands id plants , bird , tortoises but yet they seem mysteriously related to mainland species. Also he observes the marine iguana which is distinctive and no other iguana swims or feeds in the ocean. Some of the animals were strange to their surroundings like the blue footed booby which had bright colors. Back in London, Darwin is stunned to learn about the specimens he thought included many different birds were all finches.
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When arrived in Sydney , Darwin first feeling was to congratulate himself that he was born an Englishman. Also , he wonders why there is completely different set of mammals in Australia
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In order to test his theory of atoll formation , he studies coral reefs growing around islands. He was so glad that they visited the islands where the formation was rank high amongst the wonderful objects of this world
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As he takes a walk along the sea coast to the north of the town , the plain is there quite uncultivated. It consists of a filed of black lava smoothed over the coarse grass and bushes where the greater part of which are mimosas
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The number of bullock wagons is the first object that strikes the eye of an stranger. He have as yet not mentioned the well known Table Mountain which is a great mass of horizontally stratified sandstone rise quite close behind the town to a height of 3 , 500 feet
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In the jungles of South America , Darwin discovers nay incredible creatures. When the Beagle makes an unscheduled detour to make additional longitude , he is dismayed whether it is homesick or either seasick. the zig-zag manner of proceeding is very grievous where he loathe , abhor the sea , and all ships which sail on it .
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Darwin have reached home last night where his head is quite confused with delight
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When on the Island , Darwin finds the barren desolate and wretched but perks up when he cracks open some primitive looking rooks and find fossils . A brachiopods - two shelled animals once among the most abundant organisms on Earth were full throughout Falklands .
