With no entry in Darwin's Diary until the 1st November when close to Tahiti, over the next week or so I will be posting Captain Fitzroy's thoughts on the Beagle's visit to Galapagos. With hindsight, they make particularly interesting reading.
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Captain Fitzroy’s Journal
While sailing away from the Galapagos, impelled westward over a smooth sea, not only by favouring easterly breezes but by a current that set more than sixty miles to the west during the first twenty-four hours after our losing sight of Culpepper Islet, and from forty to ten miles each subsequent day until the 1st of November, I will look back at those strange islands, and make a few more remarks on them.
While sailing away from the Galapagos, impelled westward over a smooth sea, not only by favouring easterly breezes but by a current that set more than sixty miles to the west during the first twenty-four hours after our losing sight of Culpepper Islet, and from forty to ten miles each subsequent day until the 1st of November, I will look back at those strange islands, and make a few more remarks on them.
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