Charles Darwin - Journal of Researches (Aka Voyage of the Beagle) - 2nd Edition (1845)

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Transcript of Charles Darwin - Journal of Researches (Aka Voyage of the Beagle) - 2nd Edition (1845)

could
offer.
June.
1845.
Man-
bushes
Colony
at
Charles
Island
James
Island
past age,
does
not
appear
so
rich
;
Geolo-
gical
Society.
animals.
A
large
Aplysia
is
very
the
these
oceanic
islands
is
evidently
rain
or
spray
on
instead of a black
;
covered,
shark
del
Fuego,
;
appear
remarkable
to
proceed
on
our
journey,
as
being
too
impertinent.
The
hosts
the
pressure
of
day-
put
its
foot
profited,
however,
by
my
acquaintance
with
the
Portuguese
padre,
grass
about
an
inch
above
the
surface
rine's
on
the
hot
countries.
the
number
of
different
species,
but
to
that
of
the
individual
insects
spiders,
when
a
large
insect
is
caught
in
their
webs,
endeavour
being
entirely
spoiled.
I
once,
however,
and
living
cattle.
The
inhabitants
are
chiefly
landowners,
together
surcingle,
country
wore
the
same
aspect,
present
day,
not
a
single
Indian,
the
larger
streams,
espe-
cially
to
the
north
of
Las
Minas,
latitude,
band,
including
by
forests.
But
even
the
rule,
if
confined
to
South
America,
of
trees
flourishing
only
of
Azara
and
other
authors.
As
I
approached
passing
rapidly
from
species
like
habit,
and
which
is
most
closely
M.
niger,
the
cuckoos
parasitical,
if
I
may
so
express
it,
on
each
other
bird
of
very
versatile
habits
and
considerable
ingenuity.
The
Cordillera,
hills
four
or
five
hundred
plain,
of
sulphate
of
soda
lie
scattered
about.
The
Gauchos
call
the
be a
distressing passage
in the
its
burrows,
the
Agouti
uses
them;
but
where,
see
me;
for
strangers,
and
a
small
rest
in
the
thought
of
selling
consisting
either
of
sand,
saline
marshes,
or
so
abundant
as
near
Seventhly,
an
extinct
again.
Lastly,
the
Toxodon,
perhaps
coast.
As,
however,
the
great
armadillo-like
animal
being
so
well
preserved,
together
with
the
bones
of
yards.
When
of
the
Rio
Negro
in
lat.
41,
horizontally
to
nearly
;
within
the
tropics,
the
hybernation,
or
more
properly
aestivation,
of
animals
is
Virgularia
explain
one
such
case.
Captain
Lancaster,
in
his
voyage*
in
1601,
nar-
rates
that
very
weak
power,
had been
three hundred
it
Vegetation
Cardoon
Buenos
Ayres
Corral
where
Cattle
are
slaughtered.
BAHIA
BLANCA
TO
BUENOS
AYRES
September
8th.
tance,
stands,
plain.
It
consists
is
road
Colorado,
has
periodical
floods
 When
we
reached
above
the
plain,
patches
of
conglo-
merate
adhered
quartz
yet
show
the
at a
posta.
Before
render
him
for
some
time
insensible.
The
man,
nest with
as much food
swampy country,
dry
thistle-
told a which
had
for
dinner)
matter,
received
a
severe
cut,
killed
vast
place
Lalegraicavalca,
meaning
partly
explain
introduction,
however,
the
surface
observed
frequented
streams
mouth of the
While
changing
horses
at
the
town
can hold the
is as much
legs,
much
resemble
great
;
the Parana. At the foot of the cliff on which
the
town
stands,
some
large
vessels
were
is
a
large
town
built
remains
belonged
to
a
Mastodon,
probably
introduction
to
an
old
Catalonian
Spaniard,
who
treated
cliffs,
beds
contain-
ing
sharks'
teeth
the bones of
nearer
the
sea
existing
shells
were
living,
North
America
possessed,
besides
hollow-horned
ruminants,
the
ele-
phant,
mastodon,
horse,
and
three
genera
of
Edentata,
namely,
the
Richardson,
in
his
admirable
Report
on
the
Zoology
of
N.
America
read
before
the
all
ages,
thus
embedded
in
been
nearly
drained,
and
which,
in
consequence,
water.
Thus
skimming
the
surface,
capital.
In
the
morning
I
rode
least would remain
to
give
Quilmes.
was
impossible
that
I
arrived
a
few
days
after
I
left
Buenos
Ayres,
the
building
were
blown
away
to
the
very
foundation
2000/.,
polished.
I
did
not
of
St.
John's
river,
some
quartz
crystals
with
their
edges
blunted
from
attrition,
and
heavy
shock,
and
whilst
struggling
former
from
together,
drive
her
out,
throw
her
down,
kill,
fifteen
or
sixteen
animals.
November
26th.
I
set
out
on
my
return
in
general
level,
of
these
provinces.
The
Gauchos,
or
countrymen,
are
very
superior
to
those
who
reside
in
the
increase;
so
that
from
the
Bay
of
San
Bias,
vast
distinct,
and
even
less
intelligible.
near
Cape
most
very
dark
night,
the
sea
presented
Magazine
of
Zoology
and
Botany.
M
2
days
of
more
calm
weather
than
these
desert
of the
Mr.
Chaffers
with
three
days'
provisions
to
survey
the
upper
part
from
the
ledge
a
huge
fragment,
and
to
throw
it
over
the
pile
disappointment
Cordillera
slow
falling
of
Gallegos,
in
lat.
51
are
large
the features
The
supply
of
food,
on
an
remains
constant
 
Penguin
Geese
Eggs
of
Doris
Compound
animals.
SANTA
CRUZ,
PATAGONIA,
sufficient to
each boat lived
in
thick-
ness
argu-
ments
leading
to
this
conclusion,
derived
from
the
form
and
the
moment
with
attention,
lately
the hide downwards
rush
at
her
foal
to
its
i'ate.
Capt.
Sulivan
At
some
future
period
the
southern
hemisphere
probably
will
its
neck of
the
head
ni
Choiseul
Sound,
which
forms
surprise
by
every
voyager
since
the
time
of
Pernety.
The
blocks
In
endeavouring
to
brable
quantite
de
pierres
de
toutes
grandeurs,
zoology
of
these
islands.
I
have
sure
that
it
was
not
a
fish
beak.
to the
arrival
in
Tierra
del
Fuego.
upper
lip
the
compliment,
which
being
done,
he
seemed
highly
pleased.
The
language
sailors,
from
long
prac-
tice,
can
make
out
a
distant
object
ject
has
been,
and
though
doubted
by
every
one,
they
have
proved
right,
when
it
has
land,
partly
submerged
in
the
sea,
became a little more
his
party,
and
nearly
so
to
Dr.
Solander.
The
snow-storm,
which
spots,
The
to
collect
sea-
eggs,
or
sit
patiently
in
their
canoes,
and
with
a
baited
hair-line
without
any
hook,
jerk
out
little
coast
by
Byron,
who
tion
was
eating,
and
feeling
it
soft
preserved
eating,
and
cold,
showed
the
case
very
kind
to
Fuegia.
We
had
already
perceived
that
Jemmy
had
almost
forgotten
his
own
language.
I
should
think
there
was
scarcely
another
human
being
with
so
about
one
;
scorched
rendered
very
evident
by
several
huge
whales*
spouting
compose
the
granitic
axis,
or
backbone
to
as
most
obliged always
Woollya.
We
did
not
see
many
natives
giants,
who
me
that
the
clamour
first
raised,
not
lofty
trees
It
is
believe,
during-
the
vovages
sea,
say
that
some
of
it
grows
extends
to
Europe,
and
An
equable
climate,
evidently
due
to
the
large
area
is so low in
require
much better
reflect,
trees,
and
excepting
these
the
vegetation
is
very
scanty.
Each
landowner
in
the
valley
possesses
the
same
time
with
myself.
This
feeling
of
inequality
the
greater
landowners
possess
from
copper
pyrites
contained
impalpable
mud,
the
ordinary
metals
oxidate,
in
this
neighbourhood,
clubs,
although
woman
who
had
been
This habit is often
barren
hills,
where
scarcely
another
bird
can
winter
Chacao,
at
the
northern
extremity
of
the
island.
beautiful moun-
eleven
thousand
with
Indian
surnames,
were surrounded
bright
rain-
bow,
Ocean,
their
dirt,
and
of
the
foul
English
potatoes
It
then
busily
hops
;
an
irregular
by
authors have
water
close
connection
between
these
two
points.
Chiloe,
very
civil,
which
was
mouths
of
the
valleys,
they
are
continuously
Atlantic
and
vium. The features
Europe.
It
is
an
old
story,
true. The
be covered
into a
Luxan,
near
Mendoza.
The
whole
distance
is
over
The
country
was
beautifully
cultivated,
;
day
after-
wards,
staggering
to
the
pile
of
ore,
they
emptied
the
able
to
sleep
all
night,
different
levels,
one
above
another,
on
couple
line
of
valley,
of
these
countries,
to
perceive
great
number
had
ever
have
flowed
down
a
grand
valley),
for itself
near
the
Tambillos
or
at
the
Incas
Bridge,
or
in
the
Portillo
Pass,
at
flow to the
regions
above
sleep,
the
particles
On
the
beach
plain
of
The inhabitants
live like
owing
to
my
having
become
gradually
accustomed
to
such
scenes,
as
I
pleasanter.
the ancient Indian
the ancient
Indian
America.
They
are
largest
beak
in
the
genua
Geospiza
is
shown
in
Fig.
1,
the smallest
(Testudo
nigra,
formerly
called
Indica),
which
probably
regulates
them
according
to
on
if
full :
in
one
such
be
the
case,
the
object
of
marine
species
not
appear
matter
of
America.
Of
land-shells
I
collected
sixteen
kinds
(and
two
new
genera
to
him
for
the
following
details.
Of
flowering
plants
there
are,
as
is
;
what
he
con-
specimens
that
I
brought
from
Woman
the
blue
ocean.
The
island,
with
the
exception
of
the
loftiest
central
pinnacles,
which
rise
to
a
height
immediately
the
natives
jumped
overboard,
and
by
man-carrying pig,
green
parcels
as the condition
abolished
missionary
may
principal
hills
inland
in
much
oppressed
by
another
tribe,
object.
Pre-
they
belonged
been
accused,
;
weeds,
which,
of mountains
heads,
they
generally
contract
towards
their
nowhere
less
than
3000
feet
above
the
valleys
and
stay
the
ensuing
day,
cheaper.
The
climate
is
splendid,
and
perfectly
healthy
Coming
the
a
similar
manner.
They
were
then
removed
plants,
viewed
from
a
distance,
to
promise
fertility.
A
single
of the
may
add,
that
whenever
I
noticed
birds,
not
great
loose
blocks
of
coral
with
open
interstices,
feeling
a
conviction
that
an
island,
though
cocoa-nut tree.
voyage
of
the
Astrolabe,
that
line
reef
of
coral
is
concerned,
there
is
reef
is
concerned,
there
From the corals
CC.
The
lagoon-channel.
A
A .
Outer
edges
of
the
reef,
now
converted
into
an
atoll.
C\
The
lagoon
form,
size,
and
other
characters,
are
explained
on
the
theory
of
sub-
sidence
which
theory
we
are
independently
and
tidal
currents
passing
in
New
South
Wales.
May
1st.
Sunday.
lava,
a
thumb-like
projection,
windward
point.
A
good
productive
spot
scanty
as
the
pasture
appears,
vegetation
there
greasy
mud-banks.
The
bright
green
colour
these
bushes
always
reminded
stone
would
inevitably
have
been
long
ago
worn
away,
and
without
the
bar,
there
would
at
a
mere
glance
from
his
master's
eye.
These
gently-
blowing
trade-wind
not
believe
difficulties
or
dan-
gers,
excepting
in
rare
cases,
nearly
zil, 131,