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Charles Darwin , age 22 get son the HMS Beagle voyage as the ships captin's assistant.
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We are going on a Journey through Charles Darwin's Voyage
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He is overly excited by his first observation
"It then dawned on me that i might perhaps write a book on the geology of the various countries visited, and this made me thrill with delight" -
Darwin explaores Brazilian rainforests for the first time.
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they crossed the equator, and undergone a disagreeable operation of being shaved
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Darwin is intrigued by the giant fossils he sees
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Captian Robert FitzRoy repatriates three native people he had brought to England on a pervious voyage. FitzRoy attempts to start christian ission but fails tremendously.
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DArwin finds the barren, windswept Falkland Islands. HE opens some rocks and finds some fossils.
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Darwin explores the fetile lowland areas, know as pampas
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Darwin sees MOunt Osomo Erupt while on the Island of Chiloe and experiences the earthquake in the woods near Valdivia.
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"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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Darwin finds many species of plants, birds and tortoises unique to the galapagos Islands
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The Tortoises were so big to him he could help but ride one
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When he arrived in Sydney Cove, his first feeling was to congradulate hisself to be born an englishmen
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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, greater part of which are mimosas, ' observes Darwin.
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"The first object in Cape town which strikes the eye of a stranger, is the number of bullock wagons...I have as yet not mentioned the well known Table Mountain; this great mass of horizontally stratified sandstone rises quite close behind the town to height of 3,500 feet."
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In the jungles of South America, Darwin discovers many incredible creatures. HE did howeverget home and sea sick, he dismaied when the beagle makes an unscheduled detour
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"I reached home late last night. My head is quite confused with so much delight.'