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CHAPTER X Tierra del Fuego, first arrival Good Success Bay An account of the Fuegians on board Interview with the savages Scenery of the forests Cape Horn Wigwam Cove Miserable condition of the savages Famines Cannibals Matricide Religious feelings Great Gale Beagle Channel Ponsonby Sound Build wigwams and settle the Fuegians Bifurcation of the Beagle Channel Glaciers Return to the Ship Second visit in the Ship to the Settlement Equality of condition amongst the natives . . Pages 215-243

A2272    Review:     Anon. 1890. [Review of Journal of researches]. A naturalist's voyage around the world. Public Opinion, 9, no. 3 (26 April): 67.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 67 A Naturalist's Voyage Around the World.* The sailing of Charles Darwin in the Beagle, in 1831, was a notable event in the history of science. The expedition may be said to have discovered Darwin, or at least to have made him known to the world. Had the Cruise of the Beagle accomplished nothing more, it would not have been in vain. The appearance, in 1839, of this journal, which has been pronounced the most entertaining book of genuine

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VIII insect on the wing, with an offshore breeze, would be very apt to be blown out to sea. The most remarkable instance I have known of an insect being caught far from the land, was that of a large grasshopper (Acrydium), which flew on board, when the Beagle was to windward of the Cape de Verd Islands, and when the nearest point of land, not directly opposed to the trade-wind, was Cape Blanco on the coast of Africa, 370 miles distant.1 On several occasions, when the Beagle has been within the

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ship; and to proceed with the two other boats, one under his own command (in which he most kindly allowed me to accompany him), and one under Mr. Hammond, to survey the western parts of the Beagle Channel, and afterwards to return and visit the settlement. The day to our astonishment was overpoweringly hot, so that our skins were scorched; with this beautiful weather, the view in the middle of the Beagle Channel was very remarkable. Looking towards either hand, no object intercepted the

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XIII In the evening we reached the island of San Pedro, where we found the Beagle at anchor. In doubling the point, two of the officers landed to take a round of angles with the theodolite. A fox (Canis fulvipes), of a kind said to be peculiar to the island, and very rare in it, and which is a new species, was sitting on the rocks. He was so intently absorbed in watching the work of the officers, that I was able, by quietly walking up behind, to knock him on the head with my geological hammer

A1845    Review:     Anon. 1890. [Review of Journal of researches]. Indianapolis Journal (31 May): 7.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 7 A Naturalist's Voyage Around the World is the title of a new edition of a work by Darwin, the celebrated teacher of evolution. The voyage was made many years ago on the British Naval ship Beagle. It was one of the most fruitful expeditions, from the stand-point of science, upon which a man ever embarked: and the store of facts that Darwin took back to England after this long cruise was a noteworthy addition to those two departments of science

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FERNANDO NORONHA. JOURNAL CHAPTER I Porto Praya Ribeira Grande Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish St. Paul's Rocks, non-volcanic Singular Incrustations Insects the first Colonists of Islands Fernando Noronha Bahia Burnished Rocks Habits of a Diodon Pelagic Conferv and Infusoria Causes of discoloured Sea. ST. JAGO CAPE DE VERD ISLANDS AFTER having been twice driven back by heavy south-western gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command

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5 shores of South America of the intermittent elevation of the land, together with the denudation and deposition of sediment. This necessarily led me to reflect much on the effects of subsidence, and it was easy to replace in imagination the continued deposition of sediment by the upward growth of corals. To do this was to form my theory of the formation of barrier-reefs and atolls. On her homeward voyage, the Beagle visited Tahiti, Australia, and some of the coral-islands in the Indian Ocean

A1850    Review:     Anon. 1890. [Review of Journal of researches]. The voyage of a naturalist. St. James's Gazette (26 February): 6.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 6 NEW BOOKS. THE VOYAGE OF A NATURALIST. Good illustrations will sometimes redeem the most worthless book of travels; and there are few travellers who can safely reject the artist's assistance. Without pictures the narrative is apt to fall as flat as a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society without the magic lantern. But Charles Darwin's journal of his voyage round the world in H.M.S. Beagle achieved instant popularity solely by reason of

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infusoria Bahia Brazil Splendour of tropical scenery Pernambuco Singular reefs Slavery Return to England Retrospect on our voyage 513-538 INDEX . . . . . . . 539-551 [H.M.S. BEAGLE MIDDLE SECTION FORE AND AFT 1832

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dreary waving plain with patches of drifted snow; whilst the ship laboured heavily, the albatross glided with its expanded wings right up the wind. At noon a great sea broke over us, and filled one of the whale-boats, which was obliged to be instantly cut away. The poor Beagle trembled at the shock, and for a few minutes would not obey her helm; but soon, like a good ship that she was, she righted and came up to the wind again. Had another sea followed the first, our fate would have been decided

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were seen at one time floating outwards, and one of them must have been at least 168 feet in total height. Some of the icebergs were loaded with blocks of no inconsiderable size, of granite and other rocks, different from the clay-slate of the surrounding mountains. The glacier farthest from the Pole, surveyed during the voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, is in lat. 46 50', in the Gulf of Penas. It is 15 miles long, and in one part 7 broad, and descends to the sea-coast. But even a few miles

A2271    Review:     Anon. 1890. [Review of Journal of researches]. Literary Notices. Popular Science Monthly (June): 271-272.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 271 Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the voyage round the World of H. M. S. Beagle, under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R. N. By Charles Darwin. A new edition, with Illustrations. New York: D. Appleton Co. Pp. 551, with Maps. Price, $5. There are only a few books that have the qualities of an originality and freshness that never wear out. Darwin's Naturalist's Voyage must be conceded

F1146    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. The expression of the emotions in man and animals. 2d ed. Edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

8vo., 6s. MURRAY. LIFE OF ERASMUS DARWIN. With a Study of his Scientific Works. Portrait. 7s. 6d. MURRAY. THE STRUCTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CORAL REEFS. Second Edition, revised. SMITH, ELDER, CO. GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON VOLCANIC ISLANDS AND ON PARTS OF SOUTH AMERICA, visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Beagle.' Second Edition. SMITH, ELDER, CO. GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS ON SOUTH AMERICA. SMITH, ELDER, CO. A MONOGRAPH OF THE CIRRIPEDIA. With numerous Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. RAY SOCIETY

F1186    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. L'expression des Émotions chez l'homme et les animaux. 2d ed. Trans. by S. Pozzi and René Benoit. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   Image   PDF

qui s'est borné à secouer la sonnette d'un serpent mort ne peut se faire une idée juste du son produit par l'animal vivant. D'après le professeur             23. Dr. Günther, Reptiles of British India, p. 262.             24. M. J. Mansel Weale, Nature, 27 avril 1871, p. 508.             25. Journal of Researches during the Voyage of the « Beagle », 1845, p. 96. J'ai comparé le bruit ainsi produit à celui du serpent à sonnette.             26. Voir la relation du docteur Anderson, Proc. Zool

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the great American naturalist, Professor James D. Dana. Two years after the return of the Beagle to England, the ships of the United States Exploring Expedition set sail upon their four years' cruise, under the command of Captain Wilkes, and Dana was a member of the scientific staff. When, in 1839, the expedition arrived at Sydney, a newspaper paragraph was found which gave the American naturalist the first intimation of Darwin's new theory of the origin of atolls and barrier-reefs. Writing in

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Principles of Geology, though he warned him against accepting the views advocated by its author. During the time the Beagle was beating backwards and forwards when the voyage commenced, Darwin, although hardly ever able to leave his berth, was employing all the opportunities which the terrible sea-sickness left him, in studying Humboldt and Lyell. We may therefore form an idea of his feelings when, on the ship reaching Santa Cruz, and the Peak of Teneriffe making its appearance among the

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towards defraying part of the expenses of publication. I have myself published separate volumes on the Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs; on the Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of the Beagle; and on the Geology of South America. The sixth volume of the Geological Transactions contains two papers of mine on the Erratic Boulders and Volcanic Phenomena of South America. Messrs. Waterhouse, Walker, Newman, and White, have published several able papers on the Insects which were

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, where a line of blue water was seen mingling in little eddies with the adjoining fluid. July 26th. We anchored at Monte Video. The Beagle was employed in surveying the extreme southern and eastern coasts of America, south of the Plata, during the two succeeding years. To prevent useless repetitions, I will extract those parts of my journal which refer to the same districts, without always attending to the order in which we visited them. MALDONADO is situated on the northern bank of the Plata, and

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soldiers with a troop of horses (a posta), so as to be enabled to keep up a communication with the capital. As the Beagle intended to call at Bahia Blanca, I determined to proceed there by land; and ultimately I extended my plan to travel the whole way by the postas to Buenos Ayres. August 11th. Mr. Harris, an Englishman residing at Patagones, a guide, and five Gauchos, who were proceeding to the army on business, were my companions on the journey. The Colorado, as I have already said, is nearly

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-formed little plains, which is highly interesting from the number and extraordinary character of the remains of gigantic land-animals embedded in it. These have been fully described by Professor Owen, in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, and are deposited in the College of Surgeons. I will here give only a brief outline of their nature. First, parts of three heads and other bones of the Megatherium, the huge dimensions of which are expressed by its name. Secondly, the Megalonyx, a great allied

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with quails. But as soon as the bird is seen flying, its whole appearance changes; the long pointed wings, so different from those in the gallinaceous order, the irregular manner of flight, and plaintive cry uttered at the moment of rising, recall the idea of a snipe. The sportsmen of the Beagle unanimously called it the short-billed snipe. To this genus, or rather to the family of the Waders, its skeleton shows that it is really related. The Tinochorus is closely related to some other South

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rooteth in the earth, and so becomes great. This transformation is one of the strangest wonders that I saw in all my travels: for if this tree is plucked up, while young, and the leaves and bark stripped off, it becomes a hard stone when dry, much like white coral: thus is this worm twice transformed into different natures. Of these we gathered and brought home many. During my stay at Bahia Blanca, while waiting for the Beagle, the place was in a constant state of excitement, from rumours of wars and

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CHAP. December 23rd. We arrived at Port Desire, situated in lat. 47 , on the coast of Patagonia. The creek runs for about twenty miles inland, with an irregular width. The Beagle anchored a few miles within the entrance, in front of the ruins of an old Spanish settlement. The same evening I went on shore. The first landing in any new country is very interesting, and especially when, as in this case, the whole aspect bears the stamp of a marked and individual character. At the height of between

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IX Beagle anchored in Berkeley Sound, in East Falkland Island. This archipelago is situated in nearly the same latitude with the mouth of the Strait of Magellan; it covers a space of one hundred and twenty by sixty geographical miles, and is a little more than half the size of Ireland. After the possession of these miserable islands had been contested by France, Spain, and England, they were left uninhabited. The government of Buenos Ayres then sold them to a private individual, but likewise