The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

The Voyage of the BeagleCharles Darwin · 1839Darwin's journal of the five-year voyage. Read The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin page by page and explore its network of 2,047 people, places and…AFTER having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R. N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831. The object of the expedition was to complete the survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under Captain King in 1826 to 1830,--to survey the shores of Chile, Peru, and of some islands in the Pacific--and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the World. On the 6th of January we reached Teneriffe, but were prevented landing, by fears of our bringing the cholera…All books in the ECCE gallery