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A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text
glance could be observed amongst them as we rapidly passed the headlands of the river; yet, when spoken to, there was an attempt to look cheerful from beneath a brow clouded by uncertainty and suspicion, produced by the recollection of several cargoes having been in this manner entrapped into slavery. The women were a little more clamorous, fretting, sobbing aloud, and ejaculating Mamanah! Mamanah! (mother, mother;) but our anchoring off Shefean Island soon dissipated all fearful apprehensions
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A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text
village of Hottentots, under the direction of the London Missionary Society, containing about fourteen hundred persons. It did not appear to be under good management, the inhabitants being subject to much oppression, not from any fault in the directors of this humble establishment, but from the unequal laws of the Colony, which deny the native Hottentot and free men of colour, (if they be poor,) either the rights of freedom or the advantages of slavery. Such is not the case at Uitenhage, about
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A817.2    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
interests, which, although it tends to the enrichment of himself, may also benefit his neighbour. United efforts and public enterprise, which render nations great and flourishing, are unknown to the savage. Force is the only law he acknowledges, and trivial warfare, slavery, and want, are the results.The great commercial interests of the country are unknown, and collective exertion dissolves into the petty traffic of individuals. [page] 10
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A817.2    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
for many of their youth as navigators. Independently of the above productions, they export to Mauritius wood, wax, tortoiseshell, c. Notwithstanding the rigour of their laws, by which an attempt to escape from slavery is regarded as a capital offence, desertions are constantly taking place, and to such an extent that we could never ascertain to whom those picked up by the Barracouta belonged. It is extraordinary that the proprietors of the slaves, now that they are so difficult to obtain, should
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A817.2    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
when they are destroyed. What, then, must have been the sorrows of the many breaking hearts that were thus torn from all they loved or wished for bound by fetters as immoveable as the wretches by whom they were surrounded, with no other prospect but slavery in a distant and unknown land, where they were to be debased to a level with the brute, without a hope of ever again returning to their native soil and liberty! As a conclusion to the misfortunes of these people, the Portuguese had burnt their
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A817.2    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
to secrete himself until we were at sea. The captain wrote to Lord Charles H. Somerset respecting this Irish slavetrade, requesting him to see justice done to these unfortunate men, who, born with all the advantages of freedom, were now suffering all the privations of slavery. Captain Owen's orders did not require that he should survey the coast from the Cape of Good Hope to the river Congo; but, as it was very imperfectly described in the charts, he determined upon making at least a passing
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A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text
other colony to the southward. Here the meanest subject can acquire and enjoy property; ends never attainable where the wretched system of slavery is established. The Consul, Mr. Veitch, who was nearly related to the unfortunate Mungo Park, made almost every officer in both vessels grateful for his hospitality. His house was our house in every sense of the word, and his liberality was not singular at this happy little spot, for our merchants all overpowered us with kindness and attention. [page
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A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text
parched, with scarcely any appearance of commerce, or, if any, that resulting from slavery! The wealth, the prosperity, of their trade is obtained by bartering the sorrows and blood of their fellowcreatures. Weakness is there the victim of oppression; with none to protect it from the hand of civilized man, who has turned its tears into wealth, and put shackles on the children of Africa in order to enrich himself by the sweat of their brows. But we must return to our narrative. In the evening of
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A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text
assured of their safety, they entered freely into conversation with the interpreter, and informed him that this bay was bounded on one side by the island upon which Patta was situated. On being questioned respecting their fear of approaching us, they answered, that they imagined we were Frenchmen, who in many instances had kidnapped their countrymen from the canoes and sold them into slavery. In the evening these people were landed, and in all probability we were indebted to their report for
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A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text
the plenitude of their power, they sought boundless dominion upon these shores; and, in later days, in fact up to the present moment, these Arabs had firmly resisted the whole force of the Imaum of Muskat. They had ever loved and nobly fought for their liberty; but the power of their enemy had increased, whilst their own had long been on the decline, and they were now about to taste the bitter cup of slavery. As a proof that they were worthy of respect, it is only necessary to remark that
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A817.2    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
Radama's revenue would enable him to abolish the system of slavery by overcoming the tribes that still continued it. The good faith of the prince and his strict adherence to each article of this treaty have long been tried, and cannot be too highly commended. He even put to death some members of his own family for using their influence to evade it. His talents appear to have shone conspicuously from his earliest years, for otherwise he could never have won sufficiently upon the affections of
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A817.2    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
had observed that the natives were becoming still more unhappy; many, it appeared, had voluntarily sold themselves to slavery in order to avoid the miseries of starvation: for so great had been the ravages of the Hollontontes that even onions, which were once so plentiful and highly prized by the inhabitants, had become exceedingly scarce. It likewise appeared that the French of Bourbon had opened a trade to this Bay for slaves, a vessel from that place having left only six weeks before our
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A817.2    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
Europeans, far surpass those of the east coast in intelligence; they nearly all speak English with fluency, and among the many that daily came on board there was not one who did not at least understand it. But this is only amongst the males, as the women seldom know more than a few words, being kept in the most abject state of domestic slavery. The first wife is the only one that meets with any attention, and she, even in age, is treated with respect; the rest are bound to confer their favours
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
victims taken in war, and that slavery prevents the crime of murder. Such arguments are fallacious, and a mere cloak for maliciousness for the exercise of those brutal passions of our nature over the unhappy helpless wretches under their ruthless masters, who debase themselves below their intellect. The slave-dealer is destitute of all feeling, nor cares he for any being but himself and his crew. Such argument as the saving of life, to be protracted only in misery, is mere cant and hypocrisy
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
observe the grotesque appearance of the different persons grouped together, and the singular writhings in the persons of the little children who had stood up to keep time with the music. After staying until it was very late, and our curiosity had been quite satisfied, we left them, well pleased in having seen so much more of the people of Porto Bello. Slavery at Porto Bello may be said to be on the wane, as all the children of the slaves are free by birth, so that with the present generation
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A894.1    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text
, and the possibility of making silk has been proved beyond a doubt; but it seems * Slavery is abolished in part all children of slaves born after Christmas 1818 were declared free. [page] 36
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
Place. Inhabitants of Porto Bello. The Governor. Filthiness of the People, and dirty finery. A Ball. Slavery at Porto Bello. Schools. Trade of Porto Bello. Indolence of the People. Former State of the Place 120 CHAPTER IX. Lieutenant Austin despatched to seek Rocket Stations. Mountain Ridges of the Isthmus. Mr. Lloyd's Account of the Isthmus. Northern Cordillera. Chagres. Adjacent Country. Route from Porto Bello to Panama. Navy Bay. Panama. Derivation of the Name and Description of the Place
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
must be regarded in a two-fold light; that of the actual traffic in slaves, and that of slavery only. They cannot be considered apart, for they are essentially connected; and he that possesses slaves holds out a direct encouragement to the traders, as much as the receiver of stolen goods is the abettor of, and participator with, the thief. That the slave-trade is an abomination to humanity, we have the concurrent testimony of all. The purchase of poor beings by wholesale from their ferocious
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
tilence, gasping for air in a pent-up hold, and dying from an accumulation of all these evils, in time frequently to be saved only from a watery grave, as they are thrown into the sea like so much lumber when their vessel is chased by a man-of-war, in order that their remorseless masters may escape that punishment which they so justly deserve. This is no exaggerated picture; such scenes are still going forward, and such the advocates of slavery would perpetuate. And what sophistry can soften
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
pain and disgust. But noble hearts have felt their sorrows, and their sighs have not been unheard. Time that they were, for I was informed of the fact by Dr. Hall, who attended the establishment of the slave-importers, that one half of the number that are brought over die in the course of the first year after they are landed! Such is another of the effects produced by this unrighteous traffic. Slavery, considered in its abstract form, is the badge of ignominy to man; but that must be bad indeed
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
or two exceptions in other parts of the world, seem to occupy the lowest point in the scale of creation. A thousand years have done nothing for them. There is something peculiar in the character of the African negro under punishment; he will endure the most agonizing sufferings without a groan or scarcely a murmur escaping his lips; but cruelty and revenge in their turn are the leading traits in his character, and slavery tends to root them more deeply. There is something in the cerebral
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
impair that delicacy of sentiment which is the chief ornament of the female sex. But the general tendency of slavery in the negro is to harden the heart, to extinguish all sense of justice, and to encourage the most unbounded licentiousness. I remember once witnessing the treatment of a slave, by a young lady at Maranham, that I shall never forget, and which left no favourable impression on me of the refinement of the fair sex of that place. The slave, who was a young girl, was sitting at work
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
Excellency the Governor! and any slaves found in the streets after nine in the evening, without a written permission from their masters, are apprehended and whipped the next morning at their expense! What a pity that the masters are not whipped in their stead! These are a sample, although not the worst by any means, of the laws that are enforced by the abettors of slavery. In fact, I have selected these as the very lightest points of grievance, as I would give the slave-holder his utmost due. Such a
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
doubt that countenancing slavery by our laws, was the blackest spot in our national policy; but that has been removed, and Great Britain had no right to sully her fair name by legalizing such infamous laws at the solicitation of the mercenary slave-holder: the dawn of a better course has arrived, and reform has at length banished the odious appellation of slave from our colonies. I was repeatedly requested to notice the happy condition of the slaves, and was repeatedly asked, where is their
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
of imitating the superior forms of civilized life, which they see practised by Europeans; in fact, that they thus evince a natural sense of manners and customs, to which their own are so far inferior, and a desire to follow them. Such a mode of proceeding I augur well from, and instead of accepting it as a reason that their slavery should be perpetuated, in my opinion it bespeaks them to be more worthy of their liberty. Such arguments betray the weakness of the cause equally as much as those
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
CHAPTER VIII. Departure from Trinidad. Anchor off the Town of La Guayra. Coast Scenery and Fortifications. Observations on La Guayra. Proceed to Porto Bello. Anchor off the Town. Visit from the Authorities. Ruinous state of the Place. Inhabitants of Porto Bello. The Governor. Filthiness of the People, and dirty finery. A Ball. Slavery at Porto Bello. Schools. Trade of Porto Bello. Indolence of the People. Former state of the Place. WE sailed from Port Spain on the afternoon of the 8th of
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A894.2    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 2.   Text
, at Trinidad, ii. 113; chemical properties of, 116; compared with coal, 119 Pitch lake, ii. 114 Plants, sleep of, ii. 19; tea, at Trinidad, 111 Population of the Cape of Good Hope, i. 324 Port Cook, account of, ii. 258 Port Hoppner, account of, ii. 262 Porto Bello, insignificance of, ii. 127; ruinous state of, 128; inhabitants, 129; governor, ISO; filthiness, 134; description of a ball at, 135; slavery, 137; trade of, 139; amusements at, 140; former state of, 141; defenceless state of, 143; its
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A852    Beagle Library:     Proteus. 1834. The Bahama Islands. United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine 3: 215-26.   Text
of fear; and this crew of villains were dissolved, who for many years had frighted the West Indies and the northern colonies, coming at last to be so strong that few merchantmen were safe, and withal so barbarous, that slavery among Turks was preferable to falling into their hands. Herein we have a miniature display of statesmanship, which, when conducted on a national scale, has conferred the title of great on some of the most eminent of mankind. This decisive act of government imparted a
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A852    Beagle Library:     Proteus. 1834. The Bahama Islands. United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine 3: 215-26.   Text
Virginia bound to New Orleans, and haying on board 165 slaves for the southern market of the par excellence free and enlightened republic, was wrecked here. The negroes were released from slavery, and are located on this island. Great Bahama in the Veneto Atlante, published in 1690, and in De Witt's Atlas of a somewhat later date, this island, or Abaco, is named Lucaioneque; but in these and in contemporary works, the hydrography of the Bahamas is so much distorted, as compared with that of the other
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A852    Beagle Library:     Proteus. 1834. The Bahama Islands. United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine 3: 215-26.   Text
of fear; and this crew of villains were dissolved, who for many years had frighted the West Indies and the northern colonies, coming at last to be so strong that few merchantmen were safe, and withal so barbarous, that slavery among Turks was preferable to falling into their hands. Herein we have a miniature display of statesmanship, which, when conducted on a national scale, has conferred the title of great on some of the most eminent of mankind. This decisive act of government imparted a
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A852    Beagle Library:     Proteus. 1834. The Bahama Islands. United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine 3: 215-26.   Text
Virginia bound to New Orleans, and haying on board 165 slaves for the southern market of the par excellence free and enlightened republic, was wrecked here. The negroes were released from slavery, and are located on this island. Great Bahama in the Veneto Atlante, published in 1690, and in De Witt's Atlas of a somewhat later date, this island, or Abaco, is named Lucaioneque; but in these and in contemporary works, the hydrography of the Bahamas is so much distorted, as compared with that of the other
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F1574b    Pamphlet:     de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part II. Second notebook [C] (February to July 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (3) (May): 75-118.   Text   Image   PDF
realized: man Likes to think his origin god-like (II 155); Not a deity (II 77). Comparative pathology is invoked to good effect: Many diseases in common between man and animals (II 174). Darwin's abhorrence of slavery is reflected in the following: White man who has debased his nature by making slave of his fellow black (II 154). Sexual selection is applied to man as well as to animals: Cock birds attract female by song (analogy of man) (II 178). Man is compared with the orang utan (II 79), and
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CUL-DAR125.-    Note:    1838   Notebook M: [Metaphysics on morals and speculations on expression]   Text   Image
Same cause as colour shape ideosyncracy.— Look at the Indian in slavery look at the Negro — look at them both savage — look at them both semi-civilized — Perhaps one cause of the intense labour of original inventive thought is that none of the ideas are habitual, nor recalled by obvious associations, as by reading a book.— Consider this. — 8
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F1582    Book contribution:     Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book]   Text
the Indian in slavery look at the Negro look at them both savage look at them both semi-civilized Perhaps one cause of the intense labour of original inventive thought is that none of the ideas are habitual, nor recalled by obvious associations. as by reading a book. Consider this The fledge-dove knows the prowlers of the air etc etc etc so is conscience etc etc Coleridge, Zapoyla p. 117, Galignani Edition.64 Fine poetry, or a strain of music, when the mind is rendered ductile by grief, or by
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F10.2    Book:     FitzRoy, R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-36, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
. Darwin Persons on board Changes List of those who returned Supplies Admiralty Instructions Memorandum Hydrographer's Memorandum 17 CHAPTER III. Ready for sea Detained Sail from England Well provided Bay of Biscay Compasses Local attraction Eight Stones Madeira Deception Squall Teneriffe Santa Cruz Quarantine Squalls Cape Verde Islands Port Praya Produce Orchilla Bad season St. Paul Rocks Cross Equator Fernando de Noronha Bahia Slavery Abrolhos Cape Frio 42 [page] vii
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F10.2    Book:     FitzRoy, R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-36, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
CHAPTER III. Ready for sea Detained Sail from England Well provided Bay of Biscay Compasses Local attraction Eight Stones Madeira Deception Squall Teneriffe Santa Cruz Quarantine Squalls Cape Verd Islands Port Praya Produce Archilla Bad season St. Paul Rocks Cross Equator Fernando Noronha Bahia Slavery Abrolhos Cape Frio. IN November, the Beagle was ready for sea, but a succession of hard gales from the westward prevented her leaving England until the end of December. Twice she sailed, and
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F10.2    Book:     FitzRoy, R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-36, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
productive than those of Chile, and partly on account of the difficulty of obtaining labourers after a raging epidemic had carried off one-third of the aboriginal inhabitants; and fear of infection as well as horror of the mining slavery, had driven away a large portion of the residue. About this time the Huilli-che were carried to * Aqu lleg , donde otro no ha llegado, Don Alonso de Ercilla, que el primero En un peque o barco deslastrado Con solos diez, pas el desaguadero El a o de cincuenta y
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F10.2    Book:     FitzRoy, R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-36, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
worthy of that high distinction. Insulting words induced an appeal to arms, and desperate strife was about to commence, when Colocolo, the oldest and most respected chief, advancing hastily,* with haughty strides, exclaimed: What madness is exciting you, Caciques! Thus eagerly to rush into a war Against the very sources of our strength To tear each other's entrails out, as beasts, And utterly forget the tyrant foe? Turn your arms and angry blows Against those authors of your slavery, Whose shameful
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F10.3    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Porto Praya Ribeira Grande Dry and clear atmosphere Effect of lava on a calcareous beach Habits of Aplysia and Octopus St. Paul's rocks non-volcanic Incrustations and stalactites of phosphate of lime Insects first colonists Fernando Noronha Bahia Extent of granite Burnished rocks Habits of Diodon Pelagic confervæ, infusoria Causes of discoloured sea . . . .1 CHAPTER II. Rio de Janeiro Excursion north of Cape Frio Great evaporation Slavery Botofogo Bay Terrestrial Planariæ
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F10.3    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
CHAPTER II. Rio de Janeiro Excursion north of Cape Frio Great evaporation Slavery Botofogo Bay Terrestrial Planariæ Clouds on Corcovado Heavy rain Musical Hyla Lampyris and its larvæ Elater, springing powers Blue haze Noise of butterfly Entomology Ants Wasp-killing spider Parasitical spider Artifices of Epeira Gregarious spider Spider with imperfect web. RIO DE JANEIRO. APRIL 4TH TO JULY 5TH, 1832. A few days after our arrival I became acquainted with an Englishman who was going to visit his
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F10.2    Book:     FitzRoy, R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-36, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
influence, and to the wars, harsh slavery for in the heathen districts the life of a slave depends upon the caprice of his master and dreadful consequences. But this shocking existence, so utterly repugnant to our ideas of happiness, excited and still excites the New Zealander to animal enjoyments, and a sort of pleasure resulting from the gratification of his horrible propensities, which is almost incomprehensible to us, however intelligible it may have been to our earlier ancestors. Do not let
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F10.3    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
dark we passed under one of the massive, bare, and steep hills of granite which are so common in this country. This spot is notorious from having been, for a long time, the residence of some runaway slaves, who, by cultivating a little ground near the top, contrived to eke out a subsistence. At length they were discovered, and a party of soldiers being sent, the whole were seized with the exception of one old woman, who sooner than again be led into slavery, dashed herself to pieces from the
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F10.3    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
appeared in all their substantial reality. During the meals, it was the employment of a man to drive out of the room sundry old hounds, and dozens of little black children, which crawled in together, at every opportunity. As long as the idea of slavery could be banished, there was something exceedingly fascinating in this simple and patriarchal style of living: it was such a perfect retirement and independence of the rest of the world. As soon as any stranger is seen arriving, a large bell is
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F10.3    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
instantly, with a frightened look and half-shut eyes, he dropped his hands. I shall never forget my feelings of surprise, disgust, and shame, at seeing a great powerful man afraid even to ward off a blow, directed, as he thought, at his face. This man had been trained to a degradation lower than the slavery of the most helpless animal. APRIL 18TH. In returning we spent two days at Socêgo, and I employed them in collecting insects in the forest. The greater number of trees, although so lofty, are not
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F10.3    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
, evidently considers that too much attention has been paid to religious instruction, in proportion to other subjects. This opinion being so very different from the one at which I arrived, any third person hearing the two sides, would probably conclude, that the missionaries had been the best judges, and had chosen the right path. Several young men were employed about the farm, who had been brought up by the missionaries; having been redeemed by them from slavery. They were dressed in a shirt, jacket
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F10.3    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
no good will a land also of slavery, and therefore of moral debasement. A Spaniard would have been ashamed [page] 593 Aug. 1836. PERNAMBUCO
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F10.3    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
is not cultivated, numbers are emigrating to Brazil, where the contract to which they are bound differs but little from slavery. It seems a great pity that so fine a population should be compelled to leave a land of plenty, where every article of food meat, vegetables, and fruit is exceedingly cheap and most abundant: but the labourer finds his labour of proportionally little value. Another day I set out early in the morning to visit the town of Praya situated towards the N.E. extremity of the
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F10.2    Book:     FitzRoy, R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-36, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
Bahia, or San Salvador, currents before reaching, scenery, present state, 60 slavery, its evils, 61, 62 city described, 63 survey, shoals, current, ship's course, 64, 78. Bahias Dos, Cape, 305. Bank Yngles in River Plata, 92, 286. Barometer, 49, 83 fall and changes before 'pampero,' 86, 91, in gale, 226 at Falklands, 244, 245 anomaly near Valdivia, 396 before great earthquake, 411, 412. Beagle at Falmouth, 2 paid off, 7 re-commissioned 14, 17 outfit, 18-22 plan of voyage, 24-41 detention, 42
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F10.2    Book:     FitzRoy, R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-36, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
. Julian, San, Port, bar, 319 search for water, 320 settlement, former scenes there, whaler, tides, 321 swell, 322. Keeling Islands, birds' flight, appearance of islets, Port Refuge, tide-guage, 629 soundings, reefs, discovery, 630, 631 inhabitants, slavery, trade, 632 curious crab, turtle chase, fish eating coral, 633 fishing-dog, coral formations, 634 animals, water, natives, christenings, observations, 635, 636 storms, 637. Kelp, 243 indicates rocks, remarks, cautions, 246, 247. Krusenstern
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F10.3    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF
, habits of, 117. Shells, land, species, in great numbers, 426. Shepherd dogs, 174. Shingle-beds, how deposited, 201, to 206. Siberian animals, how preserved in ice, 293. , preserved in ice, food necessary during their existence, 103. Silicified trees in vertical position, 406. Silurian formations at Falkland Islands, 253. Silurus, habits of, 160. Slavery, 27. Smelling power of carrion hawks, 222. [page] 614 INDEX
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