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.
18th May 1834
Captain Fitzroy’s Journal: On the 18th anchored off Cape Virgins.
Syms Covington Journal: The 18th pm Anchored off Cape Virgins, Straits of Magellan. Here we were obliged to work with a tide, THE tide runs four or five knots an hour.
Captain Fitzroy’s Journal:
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