Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary

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.

30th July to 8th July 1834

[Conrad Martens' Sketchbooks]* Chiloe I staid in the town of S. Carlos three days, during the greater part of this time the weather was...

29th June 1834

[from: Conrad Martens' Sketchbooks]* Chiloe In the morning, many of the poor people who had houses on the point, rowed off to us in the...

28th June 1834

['Peace - Burial at Sea' - Turner (1842)] In the Pacific ... on the following day the funeral service was read on the quarter-deck,...

27th June 1834

[Divine Service on the Beagle] In the Pacific On the 27th the purser of the Beagle, Mr Rowlett expired; he had been for some time graduall...

26th June 1834

Captain Fitzroy’s Journal: On the 26th we were still together, in latitude 43° and longitude 75°, although gales had occasionally separated ...

12th to 26th June 1834

Darwin made no entry in his Diary until the 27th June. Captain Fitzroy too made no entries until the 26th. The Beagle was in an extentive an...

11th June 1834

Captain Fitzroy’s Journal: When the day at last broke on the 11th, we saw the Adventure coming out to us from the cove where she had passed ...

10th June 1834

Straits of Magellan In the morning, in company with the Adventure, we made the best of our way into the open ocean. The Western coast genera...

9th June 1834

Straits of Magellan We were delighted in the morning by seeing the veil of mist gradually rise from & display Sarmiento. — I cannot desc...

8th June 1834

Port Famine We weighed very early in the morning: The Captain intended to leave the St.s of Magellan by the Magdalen channel, which has only...

3rd June 1834

Captain Fitzroy’s Journal: On the 3d of June both vessels were moored in Port Famine, preparing for their passage to San Carlos in Chilóe.

2nd to 8th June 1834

[A modern view of the entrance to the Straits] Port Famine The Adventure rejoined us, after having examined the East side of this part of t...

1st June 1834

[Mount Sarmiento as seen from Port Famine by telescope distant 49 miles from Conrad Martens' Sketchbooks] . S. Cruz to Port Famine Arri...

29th May 1834

S. Cruz to Port Famine We anchored in Gregory Bay & took in six days water; our old friends the Indians were not there. The weather has ...

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