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Beagle was securely moored in a bay north of the Cape, and the yawl was loaded with crockery and tools. Darwin was one of the party of twenty-eight officers and men, three Fuegians, and the missionary Matthews, who were to work their way to Jemmy's home on Beagle Channel. Beagle Channel, which had been discovered and charted by Fitz-Roy on his previous voyage, is one hundred and fifty miles south of the eastern entrance of the Strait of Magellan. It forms the southern edge of the largest

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; the latter half was in a new scene, the west coast. When the Beagle was working out of Port Desire, January 4, she struck heavily against a rock. I was instantly convinced, says Fitz-Roy, that we had hit the very rock on which the Beagle struck in 1829, in the night a danger we never again could find by daylight till this day. The accident is of interest to us because [page] 13

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CHAPTER VI THE SECOND YEAR IN SOUTH AMERICA THE eight hundred pages in which the chroniclers of the Beagle voyage tell about the years 1833-1835 do no more than sketch the principal impressions made upon Darwin's sensitive mind. In this book there can not be a tenth of that space used for outlining their outline. In my brief index to all the treasure that poured into Darwin's memory I can only point out some of the most striking and peculiar experiences. If you would realize the effects of the

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Twice during December the Beagle got under way, only to be beaten back into the harbor by a heavy gale. These two months at plymouth were the most miserable which I ever spent. I was out of spirits at leaving all my family and friends for so long a time. I was also troubled with palpitation and pain about the heart, and was convinced that I had heart-disease. I did not consult the doctor, as I fully expected to hear the verdict that I was not fit for the voyage, and I was resolved to go at all

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CHAPTER VIII SIX YEARS OF CORAL ISLANDS AND SPECIES 1836 1841 NEW ZEALAND is half-way round the world from England. On the first day of 1836 the Beagle, setting out to cover those one hundred and eighty degrees of longitude, headed for Sydney. Darwin stepped to Australian soil on January 12, made an excursion to a place one hundred and twenty miles inland, and sailed for Tasmania on the 30th. There, in Hobart, he got an inkling of how steam-power had developed in the world during his years of

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In the summer of 1830, when the Beagle was on the southwest coast of Tierra del Fuego, some natives had stolen a boat; three of them were seized by Fitz-Roy as hostages; later another was bought for some beads and buttons; all four were taken to England, where one died; and for ten months the survivors were kept, at the Captain's expense, in the house of a schoolmaster in a London suburb. They were named York Minster, Jemmy Button, and Fuegia Basket. King William graciously summoned them for

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tons burden) and to transform them into smart little cock-boats. On October 18 the small boats under the command of a lieutenant and a mate from the Beagle, began their operations, while the Beagle returned to Montevideo for further observations and to get mail. Darwin received Volume II of Lyell's Principles on October 26. We may safely imagine that it got scant attention for several days: there were letters from home to be read and many letters to be written; there were expeditions to be made

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failed to find the two little schooners at the Rio Negro, but learned that Corporal Williams had been drowned. The Beagle was moored off Maldonado on the 28th. Captain Fitz-Roy was now occupied with the outfitting of a fourth consort, the Constitucion, of one hundred and seventy tons. Darwin took quarters on shore, and for ten weeks busied himself with inland excursions for collecting and with thinking about species. He describes the molelike animal which makes a queer noise underground a

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south and with a fair wind turned the ship's head northward. But foul and boisterous weather soon followed, and the Beagle was kept prisoner in a harbor that was none too safe. This Christman, says Fitz-Roy, was a somber period. All looked dismal around us; our prospects for the future were sadly altered; and our immediate task was the surveying of a place swampy with rain, tormented by storms, without the interest even of a population. But a most extraordinary human interest was encountered

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reverted to the tortoises of the West Indies and of Madagascar when he saw those of the Galapagos. He had observed too many varieties caused by climate, soil, food, and habits to entertain a doubt of their being other than a variety of the tortoise kind. Goliath never has been able to see why people should worry about species; his horse-sense can see well enough how short-sighted the Darwins are. Shortly before the Beagle sailed from the Galapagos Darwin made an entry in his journal (not published

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Beagle left the Keeling atoll April 12, and in seventeen days reached Mauritius, east of Madagascar, where Darwin was only fifty-seven degrees from the Greenwich meridian. The entrance to the harbor was through dangerous coral reefs, and on an expedition ashore Darwin saw ancient coral that had been elevated to form part of a hill. Coral occupied his thoughts, but he regaled his readers with the astonishing fact that operas were excellently sung and large book-shops flourished in Port Louis, and

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the Beagle was at anchor off Montevideo. Here the wildness of the elements that Darwin had seen on the Plata was accented by the wild conditions of government on shore. Fitz-Roy was so incensed by the misconduct of a naval officer at Buenos Ayres that he would not keep his anchors down an hour, but hastened back to report the insult to the commander of the frigate Druid at Montevideo. The Druid, with stern British promptness, at once proceeded to Buenos Ayres, to uphold British dignity. Scarcely

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ever ascended it. The Captain resolved to explore it. After laying the Beagle ashore at the flood of a forty-foot tide and repairing the injury to her hull, Fitz-Roy moored her in the estuary. He made up a party of eighteen sailors, five officers, and Mr. Darwin; and fitted out three light and specially strengthened whale-boats. These had to be towed the whole distance above the estuary. Half the party at a time, spelling each other in hour shifts, walked the shore like canal-boat mules

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summer* of 1839 he had been waiting for H.M.S. Erebus to be fitted for sailing in the Medway; he had wanted to be the naturalist of a surveying expedition, as Darwin had been on the Beagle; but had to be content with an appointment as surgeon and botanist. He had read proof sheets of Darwin's Journal (passed to his father by Lyell's father) and took the new book with him on the voyage just as Darwin had taken Lyell's Principles. One day as he was walking in Trafalgar Square with a naval officer

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BIBLIOGRAPHY I. OF PRIME IMPORTANCE FOR THE LIFE 1. The life and Letters of Charles Darwin, two volumes, edited by Sir Francis Darwin. 2. More Letters of Charles Darwin, two volumes, edited by Sir Francis Darwin. 3. Emma Darwin: A century of Family Letters, two volumes, edited by Henrietta Emma Darwin (Mrs. R. B. Litchfield). 4. Darwin's Journal of Researches, second edition, 1845. 5. Captain Robert Fitz-Roy's Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, Vol

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on the Beagle to Brazil just after he left Cambridge. G. M. Trevelyan, in his life of John Bright, notes the fact that Darwin and Huxley supported the committee, in which John Bright was a leader, organized for the prosecution of the notorious Governor Eyre whose cruel treatment of the Negroes in the island of Jamaica had roused the better sentiment of England. Carlyle ranged himself on the other side as a supporter of imperial authority, thus confirming Darwin's early judgment, already noted

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CHAPTER III CAMBRIDGE AND THE BEAGLE CHARLES DARWIN'S attempt at a medical education lasted only two years. Most of the lectures were insufferable to him, both because of the subject-matter and of the dry formality of presenting it. The sights and sounds and smells of the clinics always remained horrible memories. Only twice did he venture into the operating theater (this was before the day of anesthetics), and both times had to run away from the unendurable spectacle. The two cases fairly

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the young naturalist during the interview of Monday, the fifth. He was only four years older than Darwin a slight, dark, handsome man, who had been an officer for seven years and had been in command of the Beagle three years before on an extensive South American voyage. He was an enthusiastic theorizer about missionary work, weather, geology, and facial contours, but a practical and zealous admiralty surveyor, whose resoluteness in hadling sailors or sails was well recognized. All the officers

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don, exulting in his grand and fortunate opportunity, but realizing, since he had been aboard the Beagle, that leaving for so very long a time so many people whom I dearly love, is oftentimes a feeling so painful that it requires all my resolution to oversome it. But he has moments of glorious enthusiasm and observes: If I live to see years in after life, how grand must such recollections be! The original sailing-date had been September 10. This had been postponed, when Darwin first met Fitz

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. Carlyle was trying to market Sartor Resartus. John Stuart Mill, long depressed by mistrust of all study of society, was roused to an enthusiasm for humanity in January, 1832, and felt confident that he could reach scientifically reliable results in his moral and social reasonings. The intellectual world was teaming with great poetry and metaphysic and logic. Who could have fancied that any momentous action of a menal sort was being carried out within the planks of the Beagle as she dug her bluff bows

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for publication, and they all thought that they were of volcanic or igneous origin. There is no predicting what such a pair of eyes will see during four years in South America. The next day the Beagle crossed the equator. Custom required that all who were crossing for the first time should, without respect to social position, submit to the proper rites, and Darwin was one of the few novices aboard. A sailor impersonated Neptune; his band seized the naturalist, lathered his face with paint and

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security with three anchors down and plenty of chain cable out. The anchors held. On December 27 the anniversary of leaving Plymouth, the new birthday for Charles Darwin the Beagle was still in a place where Volume II of Lyell's Principles could be read in comfort. Darwin might have been distracted form the interest [page] 9

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are, to visualize from these observations how unseen forces would have appeared to our eyes if we could have seen them operate. Is Lyell going to show that there is any sense in the Lamarckian views? Darwin kept asking himself as he went down the ladder and was rowed ashore and visited a shop and loitered along a street and waited impatiently on the dock for the return to the Beagle. This Lyell is a perfect devil for examining a theory without passion. He describes it fairly. He argues it calmly

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not be visualized. Darwin never would entertain a conception unless he could form some sort of mental picture to associate with it, and no picture of the creation of a species can be formed. Put yourself in the hammock below the deck of the lurching Beagle and try the experiment. At some particular second no matter if it was 753,- [page] 10

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, however, that the mother had been inconsolable for the loss of Jemmy and had searched everywhere for him. Darwin's relief at hearing, however is obvious. He was quite as much interested in the higher and pleasanter traits of the savage nature as in their bestiality. On board the Beagle he had been intimate with Jemmy for a year. Who shall tell what thoughts about the nature of human beings were engendered in Darwin's mind by constant familiarity with this Jemmy who wore gloves and knew something of