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EH88202366    Note:    1831--1836   Beagle Diary   Text   Image   PDF
1836 July 22nd broken lava rocks. — (27) The ocean is a raging monster, insult him a thousand miles distant, his great carcase is stirred with anger through half an hemisphere. — 23rd In the afternoon put to sea. — When in the offing, the Ships head was directed in W. S.W. course — a sore discomfiture surprise to those on board who were most anxious to reach England. I did not think again to see the coast of S. America; but I am glad our fate has directed us to Bahia in Brazil. — August 1st
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F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
the particles caused a curious high note or chirp: The temperature of this sand a few inches beneath the surface was 108 in the open rays of the sun. A person |27| [CD P. 27 is headed Bahia Feb 29th . . . March 19th, and commences] General Obser: Bahia in a hot country might with closed eyes tell what colour the ground was on which he was walking. The effects of reflection from a white surface preponderating those of radiation from a dark. Zoology (b) I was surprised at the scarceness of birds
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F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
1462 Nereidous animal: Ascension [note opposite] Case (3818) consists of nearly parallel tubes of cemented particles of shells: Mouth one side always highest forming sort of hood. Is said to produce large masses within short space of week. 1463 2 species of Corallina: Bahia Brazil. One inarticulata with corals V 3671464 Halimeda. Bahia. tidal pools. at extremities of branches coarse vascular structure. 1836 1465 P Flower leaves of a low shrubby tree growing on the hills: flower singular dirty
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F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
345 346 Corallines Fernando Noronha 347 P Fuci. do [added opposite] 348...353 Taken at Bahia from Feb 29th to March 17th348 I X 349 Numerous Coleoptera from Bahia. part of a couple of hours collecting [see Insect Notes pp. 47-8] 350 S Three species of land shells, the smallest on a Parasitical Orchis [for specimens 351-368 see Insect Notes p. 48] 351 I Onthophilus. perceiving the smell of human dung with singular quickness 352 I Elater Noctilucus: Vide 25: 353 I Cimex. drove its proboscis deep
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exceedingly painful. To day is the first I have been able to sit up for many hours together. It has been mortifying to see the clear blue sky above my head not be able to enjoy it. I have heard of interesting geological facts am disabled from examining them; but instead of grumbling I must think myself lucky in having at all seen the glorious city of Bahia. We have had some festivities on board; the day before yesterday there was a grand dinner on the quarter deck. Cap Paget has paid us numberless
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intended to come in again I was landed on shore was very glad to have one other opportunity of admiring the beautiful country round Bahia. I procured an Irish boy as an interpreter again started to revisit the same place as I did yesterday. After walking for some time in the heat of the sun, we entered a Venda drank some most excellent Sangaro. As is generally the case we were soon surrounded by black men, women children. I do not know whether they afforded me or I them the most amusement; their
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-sickness is. Continually one meets men who having been at sea during their whole life yet are uncomfortable in every breeze. 17th Took a farewell stroll with King: the evening was bright exceedingly clear; not a breath of air moved the leaves; every thing was quiet; nothing could be better adapted for fixing in the mind the last glorious remembrances of Bahia. If to what Nature has granted the Brazils, man added his just proper efforts, of what a country might the inhabitants boast. But where the
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1832 March I find living on board a most excellent time for all sorts of study; I cannot imagine why anybody who is not sick should make objections on that score. There is little to interrupt one, for instance since leaving Bahia the only living things that we have seen were a few sharks Mother Carys chickens. At night in these fine regions of the Tropics there is one certain never failing source of enjoyment, it is admiring the constellations in the heaven. Many of those who have seen both
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morning arranged my collections from the Interior, after dinner went with the Captain to Mr Aston, the English minister. The evening passed away very pleasantly, from the absence of all form almost resembled a Cambridge party. The Captain has informed me of the important fact that the Beagle will return to Bahia for a few days. There has been a long dispute about the longitude of Rio, everybody thought that when that was settled the whole coast of S America would likewise be so. To the Captains
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the vessels. — They had a fine passage from Bahia Blanca; but during the month they have been surveying these coasts, there has been much dirty weather; a little wind soon raises a great sea. — The report of the Bay of San Blas is so bad, that I suppose we shall not enter it. — 4th We ran down alongside the Schooners; all the necessary business between them the Beagle was carried on with the greatest activity: — The morning passed away most merrily in hearing relating everything which has
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F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
market at B. Ayres for spoons. 1487 A Skeleton of a Biscatcha 1488 I : 1489: 1490 Coleoptera. R. Colorado [see Insect Notes p. 76] 1491 I Copris. Bahia blanca V 200(b) 1492 I X Aphodius, flying by thousands [note opposite] but not alighting on plentiful horse dung: 10 leagues North of Sierra de la Ventana. V 200(b) 1493 I Hemipte: very abundant in herbage. Bahia Blanca 1494 S Fresh water shells. very abundant on banks of rapid brook, R Sauce: 1495 I Coleoptera Bahia Blanca [see Insect Notes p. 76
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1833 Sept. 11th blowing across their faces heightens to an uncommon degree the wildness of their appearance. — They turned out to be a part of Bernantio's tribe going to a Salina for salt. The Indians eat much salt, the children sucking it like sugar; it is a curious contrast with the Gauchos, who living the same life, eat scarcely any. — My companions seemed to think there was not the slightest danger in meeting these gentlemen, they know best, — but I heard the Commandante of Bahia Blanca
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F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
1832 Bahia Blanca 762 P A very abundant grass growing in tufts on sandy plains [Poa ligularis. See Plant Notes p. 163] 763 P X Oxalis in great quantities [note opposite] Flowers bright pink [Oxalis floribunda. See Plant Notes p. 163] 764 P X Bush. very common; growing in tufts. like our Gorss banks. [Discaria longispina. See Plant Notes p. 164] [note opposite] NB. Sept; 23d All these plants were in full flower [further notes heavily deleted] 765 I Lamellicorn 766 I Crysomela. near the sea
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F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
yellow colour: I know nothing of the nidification of this bird or of (1222); but it [is] clear they do not make nests like Fur: rufus; for they could not escape notice in such open countries as that of Falkland Isds. Bahia Blanca the country: |183| [note (a) added later] This species (1222) make their nest by boring a hole said to be nearly 6 feet long in a bank of earth. A thick strong mud wall, round a house at Bahia Blanca, was perforated in a score of places by these birds, thinking it to be a
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F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
:22 Aphodius. do. do. do. 3823 I : 24: 25: 26: 27: 28: 29: Flys other insects taken on the mountainous parts far from houses in Ascension Bahia Brazil 3854 X :55 Corallina on round stones tidal pools [note opposite] In some of these specimens orifices for the gemmules may be seen. 3855 I believe same species. 3856 A distinct common species extensively coating smooth surfaces of tidal pools in granitic rocks. Colour much darker than in last. 3858: I X 59: 60. Small insects sweeping in forest open
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EH88202326    Note:    1831--1836   Despoblado Notebook   Text   Image
Mangroves like rank grass in Church Yard Swamps [unhealthy] Olinda Old Town Ill-natured Brazilians Did the metamorphosed gneiss at Bahia contain dike before metamorphic action? Textual notes to the Despoblado notebook [IFC] 1.6] Down House number, not transcribed. 88202326] English Heritage number, not transcribed. [1a] page written perpendicular to the spine. [5a-10a] pages partly excised. [11a] page written perpendicular to the spine. [IBC] written perpendicular to the spine. 12] added by
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, but the instant one is in the hammock all sleep deserts you. [page] 113 Fernando Noronha to Bahi
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; to gaze at the bright band of Stars which stretches from Orion to the Southern Cross, to enjoy such pleasures in quiet solitude, leaves an impression which a few years will not destroy. [page] 114 Fernando Noronha to Bahi
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. The mind is a chaos of delight, out of which a world of future more quiet pleasure will arise. I am at present fit only to read Humboldt; he like another Sun illumines everything I behold. 29th The day has passed delightfully: delight is however a weak term for such transports of pleasure: I have been wandering by [page] 116 Bahi
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common English rain, yet here in a couple of minutes, a little torrent flowed down the trunk. It is to this violence we must attribute the verdure in the bottom of the wood, if the showers were like those of a colder clime, the moisture would be absorbed or evaporated before reaching the ground. [page] 117 Bahi
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very narrow the houses even more lofty than in the old town of Edinburgh, the smell is very strong disagreeable, which is not to be wondered at, since I observe they have the same need of crying gardez l'eau as in [page] 118 Bahi
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to his country house. We gladly accepted his offer enjoyed a most delightful ride; one beautiful view after another opening upon us in endless succession. [page] 119 Bahi
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six months it should be only one. 5th King myself started at 9 oclock for a long naturalizing walk. Some of the valleys were even more beautiful than any I have yet seen. There is a wild luxuriance in these spots that is [page] 120 Bahi
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doing my duty, that if I neglected that duty I should at same time neglect what has for some years given me so much pleasure. [page] 121 Bahi
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would credit, on this one I shall never again scruple utterly to disbelieve: As far as my testimony goes, every individuall [page] 123 Bahi
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been regularly cast at every two hours. to day after finding no bottom at 230 fathoms we suddenly came on the bank with between 30 and 40. We are now steering for the islands. [page] 128 Bahia to Rio de Janeir
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boat full of midshipmen. 30th All to day we have been cruising in sight of the Islands have been employed in [page] 130 Bahia to Rio de Janeir
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1832 May 9th of the party on board on the 2d. A boat from the Warsguti started yesterday for the same purpose. I very nearly succeeded in joining it; my good star presided over me when I failed. Four of us belonging to the Beagle are now living here. Earl, who is unwell suffers agonies from the Rheumatism. The serjeant of Marines, who is recovering from a long illness, Miss Fuegia Basket, who daily increases in every direction except height. 10th The Beagle sailed for Bahia this evening. 11th
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divisions were uncommonly handsome. Oh for the time, when I shall see it in its native Pacific isles. The Mango Jack-fruit were likewise here; I did not before know their names. The landscape about Bahia takes its character from these two most beautiful trees; as for the Mango I had no idea any tree could cast so black a shadow. They both bear to the evergreen vegetation of the Tropics the same ratio which laurels do to our English trees. In this zone these three latter, together with the Banana
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1832 June 4th coast. She staid a week at Bahia. And 12 days back to Rio; she would have been some days shorter on the passage, had she not been becalmed at Cape Frio. 5th Worked at the produce of yesterdays hunt; in the evening went out geologizing. Earl has returned (he has been staying for a week with some friends in the city) brought a good deal of news from the Beagle. 6th Went on board breakfasted with the Captain, spent the day between the city the Beagle. Going on board gives in a small
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leave Rio in the morning. I am very glad, as nothing can be more dull than lying in the harbor. And I always find the interval between sailing the first day announced hangs heavily on hand. 5th A little after 9 oclock we tripped our anchor, with a gentle breeze stood out of the bay. Capts Talbot Harding accompanied us beyond Santa Cruz. As we sailed past the Warspite Samarang (our old Bahia friend). They manned the rigging gave us a true sailor-like farewell, with three cheers. The band at the same
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enough. The Gauchos secured this one; by first throwing the balls entangling its front legs, they then lassoed or noosed him, when by riding round a bush throwing other lasso's, he was soon lashed firm and secure. [page] 242 Bahia Blanc
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is, we certainly see it in by far the best time. It is now the height of Spring; the birds are all laying their eggs the flowers in full blossom. In places the ground is covered with the pink flowers of a Wood Sorrell a wild pea, dwarf Geranium. Even with this [page] 243 Bahia Blanc
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undergo many privations; the cabin in the smaller one is at present only 2 1/2 feet high! Their immediate business will be to survey South of B. Blanca: at the end of next month we meet them at Rio Negro, in the bay of St Blas. [page] 244 Bahia Blanc
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fog, with light breezes: We are all getting anxious for the moment of receiving letters to arrive. Moreover, there is another substantial reason; our bread fails us on next Sunday, at present all hands are on a 2/3 allowance. The detainement from the Schooners is the cause of the miscalculation in the stores. [page] 245 Bahia Blanca to M: Vide
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1833 July 29th of the outer banks near the R. Negro Bahia Bianca likewise to pick up Mr Stokes his party, who have been so laboriously employed with the little Schooners. — 30th — Septemb August 2nd Light contrary winds, interrupted by a few breezes: the whole passage a very tedious one; the ship being on a wind nearly all the time. — 3d Arrived off the mouth of the Rio Negro, after firing several signal guns, the little Schooner La Lievre came out. In a short time I went on board her we then
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1833 Sept August 27th Whole day consumed in telling my travellers tales. 28th Actively employed in arranging things, in order to start to Buenos Ayres by land. — the feeling of excitement quite delightful after the indolence of the week spent at the fort of Bahia Bianca. — 29th After dinner the Yawl started on a surveying Cruise. I went in her. We slept at Punta Alta I commenced a successful bone hunt. Leaving my servant another man to continue their labours. — 30th we the next morning set out
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beheld. Then the dense splendid foliage of the Mango hides the ground with its darkest shade, whilst its upper branches are rendered the more brilliant by the profusion of light. In the temperate zones, as it appears to me, the case is different, the colours there are not so dark, or rich, hence the declining sun, which casts forth red, purple or yellow rays, is best adapted to add beauties to the scenery of those climes. — [page] 753 Bahi
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F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
migratory. labelled 1439? in NHM data bank] * 1440 A 1441. Horns of the common deer at Bahia Blanca [page] 392 Specimens not in Spirit
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varied in intensity, being most brightest when the insect was annoyed. There appeared to be a sort of internal pulsation within the bright spot. 1 Identified by Leonard Jenyns in Zoology 4:151 as either a young example of Diodon antenattus Cuv.? or a new species. The Beagle had arrived at Bahia, Salvador on a modern map, on 28 February, when CD went into ecstasies at his first sight of a tropical forest (see [page] 28 BAHIA MARCH 183
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F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
remarkable that in the extricated ova I mention a small transparent included globule. Is not this the air globule of the larger ones?. |106| Virgularia2 401 Octob 17th. Bahia Blanca; N. Patagonia This animal is Found in the greatest numbers buried vertically in a flat of muddy sand which is left uncovered at low water. Their superior extrem-ities projected upwards from one to 6 inches above the sand; The whole ground is surface was scattered over with them. [several illegible words] In length they
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F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF
frequent near the sea, frequently to the South of R. Negro, San Josè, I believe near the Colorado, but not further Northward. [pen changes] V 212 more particulars. The Northern Gauchos know nothing about the Avestruz Petise, even at Bahia Blanca. [pen changes again] Albino varieties of the common Ostrich have been seen; it must be a most beautiful bird. snow white, Gaucho at R. Negro told me. [notes end] 1 Listed by John Gould in Zoology 3:120-3 as Rhea americana Lath. The description of the
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Bahia Blanca compared to those made at Monte Video. Gen: Observ: Monte Video July 26 to Aug. 19th. Gen: Observ M. Video July 26thto Aug 19th Birds are abundant in the plains are brilliantly coloured. Starlings, Thrushes, Shrikes, Larks Partridges are the commonest. Snipes here frequently rise fly high up in great circles; in their flight, as they descend, they make that peculiar buzzing noise, which the few which breed in England are known to do. On the sand-banks on the coast are large flocks of
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flight habits resembling our field-fares. [notes (b)] Hops, not walks: in stomach seeds ants: iris rich brown: (b) I have seen this bird at Bahia Blanca; pursuing catching on wing large Coleoptera. [notes end] [listed as Xolmis variegata G.R.Gray in Zoology 3:55] (f) (1221) Himantopus. legs rose pink. [note (f)] This bird is very numerous in the swamps Fens between Sierra Ventana B. Ayres: its appearance is by no means inelegant when walking about in shallow water, which is their proper
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written partly in French refer. [CD P. 367 commences with a final entry written in Bahia when the Beagle anchored there from 1st to 5th August 18361] Corallina21463 Spirits3854:55: 56 Corallina This species is very common encrusting the smooth surfaces of the granitic rocks in the tidal pools. Its colour in the under surfaces is rather paler than that of Corallina officinalis, but generally it is cream-coloured, with a tinge of flesh-red. The extremities of the short rigid branches (in 1463
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mottled brown yellow, gorge faint yellow: on the beach. [Proctotretus multimaculatus or very near it TB] 433 R X Heterodon (diff: species 383) [note opposite] Trigonocephalus same as (439) V 99(b) [in pencil] (Come to me) [Snake TB] 434 R X : 435. Lizard (Galeotes ?) [note opposite] Above liver brown , with latero-dorsal pale streak: thighs of hinder legs pale yellow: [Proctotretus n.s. see 1061 P. cyanogaster TB] 436 C Plagusia (two species) * 437 Clytia V 103 1832 Octob: Bahia Blanca 438 X Clytia. V
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of Ticket 760 Muddy sand from bottom of Salina in which crystals of Gypsum were imbedded in Sulp of Soda lying on. 761 Saltpetre shaken off roots, twigs c bottom of shallow muddy pools when dry; very abundant North of Punta Alta, Bahia Blanca 762 Salt from Salinas chicitas, 12 leagues SW of Bahia Blanca [note opposite] Given me at B. Blanca [page] 344 Specimens in Spirits of Win
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1833 April 13th pilot from coming out. — Thus during the whole day we continued to Cruise backwards forwards. — It was exceedingly annoying; as every one was most anxious to hear that Wickham his party were all well. — The coast is like, what we saw so much of, about Bahia Bianca, either sandy dumes, or a horizontal line of low cliffs. — Sunday 14th In the middle of the day, a Sail was seen a long way off in the SW. — We immediately made chace soon found to our joy it was the Schooner. — Mr
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Salina are curious I returned highly satisfied with my ride. — 9th Some months ago the government of B: Ayres sent out an army, under the command of General Rosas to exterminate the Indians. — They are now encamped on the Rio Colorado, in consequence the country is now very tolerably safe from Indians. — the only danger is meeting with a few stragglers; but a week since a man lost his whole troop of mares but it was on the Southern shore of the river. — As the Beagle intended to touch at Bahia
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gave me in the most obliging and ready manner. — V When General Rosas, some months since, left B Ayres with his army, he struck in a direct line across the unknown country, in his march left at wide intervals a posta of 5 men with a small troop of horses, so as to be able to send expresses to the Capital. — By these I travelled to Bahia Bianca ultimately to Buenos Ayres. — I was altogether pleased with my interview with the terrible General. He is worth seeing, as being decidedly the most
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