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, when they were 150 miles distant from the Beagle. Geology could only be pursued from the boats, except at the landings, and Darwin cannot have enjoyed the trip. During heavy rain rather miserable very wet, squally; true Tierra del1 weather. Whale within pistol shot enormous backs and tails All country most desolate and quiet: never seen any European; fur seal. Feb. 2. Mt. Sarmiento: cold day: curious little green slate hill surrounded apparently on all sides by bare granite ones. . . . . [Feb

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[Feb.] 5th. Merely running over same ground; in the evening amusing bartering scene for fish [Feb.] 6th. Disappointment with the Fuegians; Matthews. They returned to the settlement after a nine days' absence, and found that systematic plundering of both the Missionary Matthews and his prot g s had taken place by hostile natives, and it was not thought safe to leave Matthews alone among them. So he rejoined the Beagle, and the button-booted and kid-gloved Fuegians were left to the mercies of

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continue his journey across the Province of Entre Rios to rejoin the Beagle at Monte Video. But at Santa F , as will be told, he became unwell with fever, and so took a boat down the Parana and finally reached the ship on October 4th. As usual the days in a town were fully occupied in shopping and preparations; and on September 27th he started on the trek of nearly 300 miles from Buenos Ayres to Santa F . Bread, sugar, Yerba, 2 packets cigars. Tailor shooting Jacket mended and trousers Big bag

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in the Bajade 1825. Because of the attack of fever, and thinking the Beagle would sail from Buenos Ayres earlier than she actually did, he decided to return by the river. The one-masted vessel of 100 tons or Balandra, had a timorous and indolent master, and the return was delayed. But there were important bones in the river cliffs. [Oct.] 9th. Wednesday. Delayed by bad winds, very timorous navigator weather most oppressively hot; at 8 o'clock at night outside house with many fire flies Pleasant

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Nov. 2nd. Cigars, bladders, big bottles spirit With difficulty got on board packet [to Monte Video] heavy musketry general utter profligacy [of] character [of] absolute Government; History of Revolution. At night foul winds, many passengers, women and children, all sick. [Nov.] 3rd. Foul winds; intelligent German. [Nov] 4th. Arrived on board [the Beagle.] [Nov.] 5th. Took up residence on shore. Darwin found that there would be a further postponement in sailing round the Horn. He therefore

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F1571 Book: Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press. Text Image PDF

Chapter 3 1834 THE BEAGLE set sail for the South to pick up the coastal survey at Port St. Julien;and there were high hopes on board that in a few more months they would have finished with the charting of that interminable eastern coast and the hated southern latitudes, and would sail round the Horn to meet the dreaded gales for the last time, to enjoy the more genial climate of the western coast and the relaxation of the towns. To Darwin in addition it meant the prospect of at last seeing the

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. Stones or pebbles are the size of walnut or apple to a man's fist ; or as big as an egg , two fists . But here in the Falklands he had to find something larger and more monumental. Wonderful scene of violence. Vegetation modern; fragments as big as Churches: valleys on each side a mile wide. Back they went to the mainland, to the mouth of the River Santa Cruz. The zig-zag course of the Beagle, with the rapid changes from island to mainland and back again kept Darwin's thoughts on the questions of

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the explanation of the valley being on the site of an old Strait came as an answer to many of the puzzling questions. On May 5th they started on the homeward journey, shooting down stream at 10 miles an hour, reaching the mouth of the river on the 8th to find the Beagle fresh painted as gay as a Frigate . [May]12th. Went to sea. Ship repaired, false keel, masts up. Good stock of provisions, 10 guanacoes bagged, took some long walks; killed a lion and curious wild cat and 2 foxes and condors

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Cordilleras winter covering Close before Conchelie two plains, most district, lower one 50 or 80 ft above sea also a lower one a little above sea. The 50-80 one covered by immense quantity of large [?], Venus and Donax. It puts question beyond doubt if there had been any: [of sea formation of terraces] Much drier here than in Valparaiso hardly expect any rain till end of May. All think Beagle smuggler; complained of want of confidence. [page] 240 DARWI

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over. Beechey says Humming-birds stay all winter in N. California. On the high ground he saw remains of Indian houses in 1 In the Diary of the Beagle, Darwin explains that this Blue-stocking Limerian lady, seeing a coloured Atlas lying on the piano, cried Esta es Contradan a! But the Kiss of Londres had no explanation unfortunately. 2 Refers to Culpen or large Fox. [page] 243 NOTEBOOKS: 183

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, could not drink tea. Very severe frost, road very desert bring wood there, days journey on donkeys. He rejoined the Beagle, and sailed Northwards via Iquiqui to Callao, the port for Lima. July 19. At night outside Callao, short steady passage. [July] 20th. Swept in. Miserable Callao, Soldiers, green country, cold, drizzle. Callao flat roofs, Heaps of corn, fruit, splendid Castle. Remarkable coincidence in overthrow [?] of Juan Fernandez and Concepcion in the years 35 51 each time great wave

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cliff, when a strong off-sea wind was blowing, and making us notice that it was calm and windless at the verge. But put a hand over the edge of the cliff, and the full force of the gale was felt, as shown by the little man in the diagram. So I was glad to know that this wind game originated on the black cliffs of St. Helena. The Beagle then took a course for home, touching once again at the S. American coast owing to bad weather. But the entries are few and his time was taken up with his notes

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analagous observation with respect to various tribes of man. 794 The Cactus from Port Desire. The stamens when touched collapsed rapidly and with force on the pistol; as also did the petals, but in a less sudden manner. The observations on plants are very few in the Beagle papers; but this entry shows that the movements of special organs in plants and the adaptations for fertilization were already claiming his attention. One gets the strong impression that in these years plants were less important to

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habits; frequents quiet deep inland seas; flight direct, rapid drops from the air, and instantly, like a stone, dives far and long; rises to the surface and will then instantly take to the wing. This is when frightened. Generally quietly swimming and diving after its prey. Common in the Beagle Channel. In the evening often flying in direct line from place to place. 1819 Gloomiest recesses of the forest, generally high up amongst the trees. Constantly uttering plaintive whistle in same tone; very

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F2442 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1945. Autobiografía de Darwin; seguida de los recuerdos de la vida diaria de mi padre y la religión de Darwin por Sir Francis Darwin. Buenos Ayres: Nova. Text

preparar el manuscrito de Geological Observations14 y gestioné la publicación de Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle.15 En julio inicié mi primer cuaderno de notas sobre datos relacionados con El origen de las especies, tema sobre el que había reflexionado durante largo tiempo y en el que trabajé sin cesar durante los veinte años siguientes. A lo largo de estos dos años hice también cierta vida de sociedad y fui secretario honorario de la Geological Society. Veía mucho a Lyell. Una de sus

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Geological Society, una de ellas sobre los cantos rodados de Sudamérica, otra sobre los terremotos y otra sobre la formación de humus por mediación de las lombrices de tierra. También continué supervisando la publicación de Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle. Y no dejé de recoger datos relacionados con el origen de las especies; a veces podía hacer esto cuando, por enfermedad, estaba incapacitado para hacer ninguna otra cosa. En el verano de 1842 me encontré algo restablecido e hice yo solo un

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fact and theory to the great treasure-house of science. Twenty-four little pocket-books have survived the distant travels and the passage of time. The notes are mainly geological, but they also tell of inland expeditions made whilst FitzRoy was charting the coast or the Beagle was refitting, with memoranda and odd comments of the traveller. In their pages his impressions pour forth with an almost devotional enthusiasm; that they are hastily scribbled and intended for no eye but his own is

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latter soon smoothed away all difficulties, from that time to the present, has taken the kindest interest in all my affairs. On Sunday 11th sailed by Steamer to Plymouth in order to see the Beagle. I returned to London on 18th. On Monday the 19th by mail to Cambridge, where after taking leave of Henslow on Wednesday night I got to St Albans so by the Wonder to Shrewsbury on Thursday 22nd. I left home on October 2nd for London, where I remained after many unexpected delays till the 24th on which

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; pickles, dried apples, lemon juice; also between five and six thousand canisters of Kilner and Moorsom's preserved meat, vegetable and soup. The lengthy delay was partly caused by his scrupulous care in refitting the Beagle for the expedition, and from the fact that she was found to be so rotten when recommissioned in 1831 as the result of the long previous voyage, that much of her woodwork had to be rebuilt. But improvements were made, increasing her tonnage from 235 to 242 tons burthen by

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spirits, on one occasion bordering on insanity. He seemed to me often to fail in sound 1 Quoted from the Preface to the Beagle Diary, Camb. Univ. Press, 1933. In the published Autobiography less than half of what follows is printed. [page] 36 DARWI

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fill the post of naturalist on the Beagle. For there was a secondary purpose behind his zeal to increase the usefulness of the voyage; after his conversion to the belief in the most literal sense of the truth of every word contained in the Bible, he longed that every young branch of the tree of knowledge should contribute its quota, and that sooner or later the truth of every statement contained in that record (i.e., the Bible) would be proved. What an irony that the man who wrote that sentence

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neuvering, so much so that the Commanding Officer says we need not follow his example, because we do everything better than his great ship. I begin to take great interest in naval points, more especially now, as I find they all say we are the No. 1 in South America. I suppose the Captain is a most excellent officer. It was quite glorious to-day how we beat the Samarang in furling sails. It is quite a new thing for a sounding ship to beat a regular man-of-war, and yet the Beagle is not at all a

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LETTER NO. 9 [Not previously published] [To Miss Caroline Darwin] [Ap. 2, 1832,] My dear Caroline, We are now about 100 miles East of Rio, and tomorrow, the 3rd of April, we expect to arrive at the capital of the Brazils. My last letter was from Bahia, which place the Beagle sailed from on the 18th of last month. On the whole I much enjoyed my first visit to S. America. I was however, very unfortunate in being confined to my hammock for 8 days by a prick on the knee becoming much inflamed

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gentlemen there are in the place. He has communicated to me an important piece of news: the Beagle on the 7th May sails back to Bahia. The reason is a most unexpected difference is found in the Longitudes: it is a thing of great importance, and the Captain has written to the Admiralty accordingly. Most likely I shall live quietly here. It will cost a little, but I am quite delighted at the thought of enjoying a little more of the Tropics; I am sorry the first part of this letter has already been sent

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LETTER NO. 11 [Not previously published] [To Miss Catherine Darwin] Botofogo Bay, Rio de Janeiro. May-June [1832] [Postmark, Shrewsbury Aug. 3, 1832] My dear Catherine I have now altogether received three letters: yours and Caroline's together, which latter I have answered and also sent my Journal by the Tyne, which was returning to England. Susan's (and one from Mr. Owen) I received May 3rd. The Beagle has not yet returned; so I am living quietly here, and thoroughly enjoying so rare an

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abominably childish, if so do not send it to Maer. Also do not send it by the coach, (it may appear ridiculous to you), but I would as soon lose a piece of my memory as it. I feel it is of such consequence to my preserving a just recollection of the different places we visit. When I get another good opportunity I will send some more. The Beagle is in a state of wonderful bustle and confusion; there is not a corner even to the officers' cabins, where food is not stowed. The Captain seems determined

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dark. This often precluded us from the greatest luxury a shingle beach for a bed. The greater part of the way was in the Beagle Channel, an arm of the sea which connects the Atlantic and Pacific. Some of the scenes from their retirement and others from their desolate air, were very grand. Glaciers descend to [page]82 DARWI

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for the future nobody will live there except myself. I absolutely revel in room: I would not change berths with anyone in the ship. The cause of our very long delay here is coppering the Schooner: as soon as this is finished, the Beagle will go for a month to Rio Negro, return to the R. Plata [page] 88 DARWI

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to procure them in this country. I guess, as the Yankys say, this [is] a pretty considerable tarnation impudent Postcript: I have no doubt Capt. Beaufort will undertake to forward the box to Valparaiso. LETTER NO. 17 [Not previously published] [To Miss Caroline Darwin] BUENOS AYRES. September 20 [1833] Dear Caroline, I have just returned from a grand expedition; as a merchant vessel sails tomorrow for Liverpool, I will write as much as I can before I go to bed. The Beagle after leaving Maldonado

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I am here with an entire throat. Such a set of misfortunes I have had this month, never before happened to poor mortal. My servant (Covington by name most invaluable I find him) was sent to the Estancia of the Merchant whose house I am staying in: he the other day nearly lost his life in a quicksand, my gun completely. We now hear the house is ransacked ( probably his clothes all stolen!). Communication with the country is absolutely cut off he cannot come into town, the Beagle before long

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observations we ran on to Port Famine; justly so called from the terrible sufferings of Sarmiento's colony. Of this there is not now the least vestige: everything is covered up by the deep entangled forest of Beech. We then returned to the outside coast, completed the Chart of the Eastern side. When this was finished, after visiting some of the Southern islands, we beat up through the magnificent scenery of the Beagle Channel to Jemmy Button's country. We could hardly recognize poor Jemmy

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the Beagle proceeds down the coast, touches at Concepcion Valdivia, sets to work behind Chiloe. I suspect we shall pay Tierra del Fuego another visit; but of this Good Lord deliver us: it is kept very secret, lest the men should desert; every one so hates the confounded country. Our voyage sounded much more delightful in the instructions than it really is; in fact it is a survey of S. America, return by Cape of Good Hope instead of Cape Horn. We shall see nothing of any country excepting S

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leave the Beagle; but it was quite absurd what a revolution in five minutes was effected in all my feelings. I have long been grieved most sorry at the interminable length of the voyage (although I never would have quitted it). But the minute it was all over, I could not make up my mind to return, I could not give up all the geological castles in the air which I had been building for the last two years. One whole night I tried to think over the pleasure of seeing Shrewsbury again, but the

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was beginning to grow quite miserable, and had determined to make a start if the Captain had not come to his conclusion. I do not now care what happens. I know certainly we are on our road to England, although that road is not quite the shortest. On the 1st of June the Beagle sails from Valparaiso to Lima, touching only at one intermediate port; from Lima direct to Guayaquil; to the Galapagos, Marquesas, so as to reach Otaheite middle of November, Sydney end of January of next year. This

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. Valdivia is a quiet little hamlet, just like those in Chiloe. We had an opportunity of seeing many of the famous tribe of Araucanian Indians; the only men in the Americas who have successfully withstood for centuries the conquering arms of the Europ ans. During this cruize we have had the misfortune to lose 4 anchors; this is the cause of our now proceeding to Valparaiso; with only one anchor at the Bows it would not be safe to survey the coast. The Beagle will immediately return to Concepcion

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very bulky, before they can be of any use will require much overhauling examination. But sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. We shall be in England next September that is enough for me. Two men of war have lately arrived from Rio, but they brought no letters for the Beagle, so that the Admiral is forwarding them on to Sydney. We all on board are looking forward to Sydney as to a little England; it really will be very interesting to see the colony which must be the Empress of the South

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Beagle. None of you at home can imagine what a grief this is. There is no help for it: we did not formerly expect to have arrived here so soon, so farewell letters. The same fate will follow us to the C. of Good Hope; and probably when we reach England, I shall not have received a letter dated within the last 18 months. And now that I have told my pitiable story, I feel much inclined to sit down and have a good cry. Two days after arriving here I started on a ride to Bathurst, a place about

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to me long as the two previous years, at which rate I have yet to remain out four years longer. There never was a ship so full of home-sick heroes as the Beagle. We ought all to be ashamed of ourselves. What is five years, compared to the Soldiers' Civilians', whom I most heartily pity, life in India? If a person is obliged to leave friends country, he had much better come out to these countries turn farmer. He will not then return home on half pay, with a pallid face. Several of our Officers

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. Pray do not disappoint me [in] this; for otherwise I shall be uncomfortable on my journey instead of enjoying the sight of the most glorious the most beautiful of countries. I believe I have at home a leathern Portmanteau, great-coat cloth leggings; if so will you have them sent by the 1st of September directed to Lieut. Sulivan, to the care of Mr. Elliot, Royal Hotel, Devonport (to be kept till H.M.S. Beagle [page] 141 LETTER

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arrives). We go from hence to St. Helena; between which place England our stages are not yet determined. The Beagle is now lying at Simons Bay, more than 20 miles from Cape Town, where I now am. This is a pretty singular town; it lies at the foot of an enormous wall (the Table Mountain) which reaches to the clouds makes a most imposing barrier. Cape Town is a great inn, on the great highway to the east; an extraordinary number of houses are occupied as boarding houses, in one of which I am now

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forward, I lose my wits, talk nonsense. The Beagle staid at St. Helena five days, during which time I lived in the clouds in the centre of the Isd. It is a curious little world within itself; the habitable part is surrounded by a broad band of black desolate rocks, as if the wide barrier of the ocean was not sufficient to guard the precious spot. From my central position, I wandered on foot nearly over the whole Island; I enjoyed these rambles, more than I have done anything for a long time past

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touching a flower he delighted in; it was the same simple admiration that a child might feel. 1 But his enthusiasm never stood between him and the sterner requisites of the collector and observer. When he prepared his Journal for publication as the third volume of FitzRoy's Voyage of the Adventure and Beagle in 1839, he gave advice to future collectors in the light of his own experience. As these passages throw light on his methods and the conditions he worked under, and are not to be found in the

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beavor hats, and an endless variety of similar things , which Darwin brands as showing culpable folly and negligence , but which caused the sailors considerable merriment when it came to the unloading of the earthenware chamber pots. The story of Jemmy Button's presence on board must here be told that queer native boy who figures in the Beagle story, and about whom we should so gladly know more. Captain FitzRoy had taken him on board when he had sailed in these waters on the earlier surveying

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of subsidiary craft to hasten the work of the survey,1 served Darwin's purpose by affording him the opportunity of sailing to the mouth of the Rio Negro in one of the small schooners, with time to acquaint himself more thoroughly with the Rio Negro and the Rio de la Plata, whilst the Beagle was still occupied to the North. So the pages of the little books take on the anticipatory note of the traveller about to explore new regions. By this time the picture of the country was beginning to take

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mountain down the Beagle Channel I had another view of it across many ridges, one behind the other. This immediately made one aware of its distance, and with its distance it was curious how its apparent height rose. Diary, p. 228. 2 Evidently this was one of the sentences that refused to get into shape The final form in the Diary of this altered passage runs: At the base of the lofty and almost perpendicular sides of our little cove, there was one deserted wigwam, and it alone reminded us that

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details are missing owing to pages torn out. The Beagle arrived at Callao, the port for Lima, on July 19th. July 19th. Isld, of Fronton Lorrenzo said to be united, Foxes and mice and rats; passage said to be much smaller. Smelling properties discussed of Carrion Crows, Hawks. Magazine of Natural History. Reached Lima Wednesday morning by coaching road, uninteresting, not like Tropical country. Many ruined houses owing to long state of Anarchy. Passed gate, wretched, filthy; tropical smell, ill

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England. Nevertheless the weeks from the middle of September until the middle of October, 1835, were some of the most vital of the whole voyage for Darwin. The Beagle called to survey the Galapagos Archipelago, and Darwin's thoughts turned away from Geology for the time. Here a new series of facts on the species question became apparent, and his recurring thoughts on geographical distribution of forms of life, with the isolation of island groups, began to take shape. Though a revolution was

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, 54, 87 Sulivan, Bartholemew James, Lt. on H.M.S. Beagle, became Admiral, 34, 103 Sydney, 110, 113, 115, 123, 125, 127, 130, 131 2, 135 6, 140, 147 Table Mountain, 141, 253 Tahiti, 113, 122, 125, 129, 130, 137, 248, 249 Tapacola, see glossary, 225, 230 Tapalquen, 195, 204 Tandeel, Sierra, 200 Terraces, of Santa Cruz Valley, 221, et seq., 239 Thistle of Pampas, 200, 207, 216 Tierra del Fuego, seeFuego Tres Montes, Cape, 110, 114, 227 Tupungata, 234 5 Unison Bay, 189 [page] 279 INDE

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F2442 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1945. Autobiografía de Darwin; seguida de los recuerdos de la vida diaria de mi padre y la religión de Darwin por Sir Francis Darwin. Buenos Ayres: Nova. Text

extraños y agrestes lugares y disfruté mucho viajando así. Visité Barmouth para ver a unos amigos de Cambridge que estaban estudiando allá, y después regresé a Shrewsbury y a Maer para cazar, pues en aquellos tiempos había pensado que estaba loco si hubiera renunciado a los primeros días de la caza de la perdiz a causa de la geología o de cualquier otra ciencia. Viaje del «Beagle» del 27 de diciembre de 1831 al 2 de octubre de 1836. Al regresar a casa tras mi breve excursión geológica por el norte

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consintió en seguida de la manera más comprensiva. En Cambridge había sido bastante derrochador y para consolar a mi padre le dije que «mientras estuviera a bordo del Beagle tendría que ser condenadamente listo para gastar más de lo correspondiente a mi asignación»; pero él, sonriendo, contestó: «¡Si me han dicho que eres muy listo!» Al día siguiente salí para Cambridge, para ver a Henslow y de allí a Londres a entrevistarme con Fitz-Roy, y todo se arregló pronto. Más tarde, cuando ya había intimado