31st August 2010

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From “The Voyage of the Beagle”: We may safely conclude, that within the Indo-human period there has been an elevation, as before alluded to...

26th August 2010

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From “The Voyage of the Beagle”: I was much interested by finding on the terrace, at the height of eighty-five feet, embedded amidst the she...

24th August 2010

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With Darwin and Fitroy's continued silence -- until they leave Callao on the 7th September -- I am continuing to post relevant entries f...

23rd August 2010

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From “The Voyage of the Beagle”: One day I went out with some merchants to hunt in the immediate vicinity of the city. Our sport was very po...

22nd August 2010

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From “The Voyage of the Beagle”: Callao is a filthy, ill-built, small seaport. The inhabitants, both here and at Lima, present every imagina...
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21st August 2010

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From “The Voyage of the Beagle”: No state in South America, since the declaration of independence, has suffered more from anarchy than Peru....

20th August 2010

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From “The Voyage of the Beagle”: I cannot say I liked the very little I saw of Peru: in summer, however, it is said that the climate is much...

19th August 2010

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From “The Voyage of the Beagle”: In the Cordillera further southward, people lose their lives from snow-storms; here, it sometimes happens f...

18th August 2010

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From “The Voyage of the Beagle”: When at Lima, I conversed on these subjects [above] with Mr. Gill, a civil engineer, who had seen much of t...

Another hiatus

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Again Darwin and Fitzroy do not make another entry in Diary and Journal until they leave Lima for the Galapagos in September. Reading their ...

9th August to 5th September, 1835

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H.M.S. Blonde arrived with Capt. FitzRoy on board; he subsequently during the Beagle stay resided in Lima. — The country has continued in th...

A short hiatus...

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Darwin and Fitzroy do not make another entry in Diary and Journal until the latter's arrival in Lima on the 9th August, 1835... what cou...
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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...