30th July 1835

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The little schooner "Constitution" in which Mr Sulivan surveyed North coast of Chili has been bought of the Capt. for Government. ...

29th July to 3rd August 1835

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I took a place in a coach which runs twice every day to Lima & spent five very pleasant days there. There is so much hospitality in thes...

27th July 1835

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Captain Fitzroy’s Journal The Blonde touched at Cobija, Arica, and Islay — hapless arid dwelling-places for either man or beast, as I have e...

26th July 1835

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LETTER 7. TO J.S. HENSLOW. Lima, July 1835. This is the last letter which I shall ever write to you from the shores of America, and for this...

25th July 1835

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[Aconcagua] Captain Fitzroy’s Journal The irreclaimably barren appearance of the sea coast of Northern Chile, is very repulsive to an eye a...

24th July 1835

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Callao is a most miserable filthy, ill built, small sea-port; the inhabitants both here & at Lima present every imaginable shade of mixt...

23rd July 1835

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Captain Fitzroy’s Journal Scarcely four months had elapsed since that tremendous earthquake, which destroyed so many towns in Chile, had alt...

22nd July 1835

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No state in S. America, since the declaration of the Independence, has suffered more from Anarchy than Peru: at present there are four chief...

21st July 1835

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Captain Fitzroy’s Journal How striking the contrast appeared between the fertility and verdure of the Concepcion country, and the dry barren...

20th July 1835

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Darwin Beagle Diary During our whole stay the climate was far from pleasant; the ceaseless gloom which hangs over the country would render a...

19th July 1835

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Darwin Beagle Diary In the night anchored in the outer part of the harbor of Callao. — Our passage was a short one owing to the steady trade...

18th July 1835

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Captain Fitzroy’s Journal A fresh fair wind drove us in twenty-four hours to Coquimbo, where the Conway was at anchor ready for sea. It was ...

17th July 1835

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Captain Fitzroy’s Journal I was very glad when we weighed anchor.

14th July 1835

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The country is here equally unproductive. They have a well (36 yards deep) from which some bitter Saltish water is procured, & firewood ...