The Voyage of the Beagle

Porto Praya--Ribeira Grande--Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria--Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish--St. Paul's Rocks, non-volcanic--Singular Incrustations--Insects the first Col...

Rio de Janeiro--Excursion north of Cape Frio--Great Evaporation--Slavery--Botofogo Bay--Terrestrial Planariae--Clouds on the Corcovado--Heavy Rain--Musical Frogs--Phosphorescent...

July 5th, 1832--In the morning we got under way, and stood out of the splendid harbour of Rio de Janeiro. In our passage to the Plata, we saw nothing particular, excepting on on...

JULY 24th, 1833.--The Beagle sailed from Maldonado, and on August the 3rd she arrived off the mouth of the Rio Negro. This is the principal river on the whole line of coast betw...

Bahia Blanca--Geology--Numerous gigantic Quadrupeds--Recent Extinction--Longevity of species--Large Animals do not require a luxuriant vegetation--Southern Africa--Siberian Foss...

Set out for Buenos Ayres--Rio Sauce--Sierra Ventana--Third Posta--Driving Horses--Bolas--Partridges and Foxes--Features of the Country--Long-legged Plover--Teru-tero--Hail-storm...

Excursion to St. Fe--Thistle Beds--Habits of the Bizcacha--Little Owl--Saline Streams--Level Plain--Mastodon--St. Fe--Change in Landscape--Geology--Tooth of extinct Horse--Relat...

Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento--Value of an Estancia--Cattle, how counted--Singular Breed of Oxen--Perforated Pebbles--Shepherd Dogs--Horses broken-in, Gauchos riding--Cha...

Santa Cruz--Expedition up the River--Indians--Immense Streams of Basaltic Lava--Fragments not transported by the River--Excavations of the Valley--Condor, Habits of--Cordillera-...

Tierra del Fuego, first arrival--Good Success Bay--An Account of the Fuegians on board--Interview With the Savages--Scenery of the Forests--Cape Horn--Wigwam Cove--Miserable Con...

Strait of Magellan--Port Famine--Ascent of Mount Tarn--Forests--Edible Fungus--Zoology--Great Sea-weed--Leave Tierra del Fuego--Climate--Fruit-trees and Productions of the South...

JULY 23rd.--The Beagle anchored late at night in the bay of Valparaiso, the chief seaport of Chile. When morning came, everything appeared delightful. After Tierra del Fuego, th...

NOVEMBER 10th.--The Beagle sailed from Valparaiso to the south, for the purpose of surveying the southern part of Chile, the island of Chiloe, and the broken land called the Cho...

San Carlos, Chiloe--Osorno in eruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina--Ride to Cucao--Impenetrable Forests--Valdivia Indians--Earthquake--Concepcion--Great Eart...

Valparaiso--Portillo Pass--Sagacity of Mules--Mountain-torrents--Mines, how discovered--Proofs of the gradual Elevation of the Cordillera--Effect of Snow on Rocks--Geological St...

Coast-road to Coquimbo--Great Loads carried by the Miners--Coquimbo--Earthquake--Step-formed Terrace--Absence of recent Deposits--Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary Formations-...

The whole Group Volcanic--Numbers of Craters--Leafless Bushes Colony at Charles Island--James Island--Salt-lake in Crater--Natural History of the Group--Ornithology, curious Fin...

Pass through the Low Archipelago--Tahiti--Aspect--Vegetation on the Mountains--View of Eimeo--Excursion into the Interior--Profound Ravines--Succession of Waterfalls--Number of...

Sydney--Excursion to Bathurst--Aspect of the Woods--Party of Natives--Gradual Extinction of the Aborigines--Infection generated by associated Men in health--Blue Mountains--View...

Keeling Island--Singular appearance--Scanty Flora--Transport of Seeds--Birds and Insects--Ebbing and flowing Springs--Fields of dead Coral--Stones transported in the roots of Tr...

Mauritius, beautiful appearance of--Great crateriform ring of Mountains--Hindoos--St. Helena--History of the changes in the Vegetation--Cause of the extinction of Land-shells--A...