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Charles Darwin embarks on the HMS beagle voyage ship as the captains assistant
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Darwin is exhilarated by his first observations " it ifrst the dawned on me that i might perhaps write a book on the geology of the various countries visited "
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Crossing the equator, " we have crossed the equator, and i have undergone the disagreeable operation of being shaved "
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Salvador Brazil. Experiences Brazilian rain forests for the first time.
" Here i first saw a tropical rain forest for the first time, i never experienced such intense delight. " -
Punta Alta, Argentina. Darwin is intrigued by the fossils he sees. " I have been wonderfully lucky with fossil bones. Some of these animals must have been of great dimension! i am almost sure that many of them are quite new "
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Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Captain Robert FitzRoy repatriates 3 Native people he had brought to England on a previous voyage.He attempts to start a christian mission be fails disastrously.
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Falkland Islands. Darwin finds the barren.
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Rio negro, Argentina.
Darwin explores the fertile lowland areas, known as pampas, with the local people of gauchos -
Chiloe islands, Chile.
Darwin sees mountain Osorno erupt while on the island of Chiloe and experiences the earthquake in the woods near Valdivia. -
Galapogos Islands.
Darwin find many many species of plants, bird and tortoises unique to the island but they seem related to the mainland species. -
Sydney, Australia
marveling at marsupials, Darwin wonders why there is a completely different set of mammals in Australia. -
Cocos island,
Darwin studies coral reefs growing around islands to test his theory of atoll formation -
Maurtius,
Darwin walks along the sea coast to the north of town and observes the physical attributes. -
cape town, South Africa
Darwin describes the bullock wagons and the table mountain. -
Bahia and Pernambuco, South America.
Darwin discovers many creatures -
Falmouth, England.
The beagle ship reaches home.