The Beagle Diary was later used to write Darwin's famous book 'Voyage of the Beagle' (1839). The narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836. Darwin describes each day of the voyage, some in intimate detail, during the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe.
24th August 1833
Patagones to Buenos Ayres The Ship was seen; its figure curiously altered by the refraction over the widely extended mud banks.
Captain Fitzroy’s Journal: On the 24th, we moored off the Wells, in Port Belgrano.
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