Chapter V : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 84 CHAPTER V Bahia Blanca--Geology--Numerous gigantic extinct Quadrupeds--Recent Extinction--Longevity of Species--Large Animals do not require a luxuriant Vegetation--Southern Africa--Siberian Fossils--Two Species...
Chapter Xiii : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 290 CHAPTER XIII Chiloe--General Aspect--Boat excursion--Native Indians--Castro--Tame fox--Ascend San Pedro--Chonos Archipelago--Peninsula of Tres Montes--Granitic range--Boat-wrecked sailors--Low's Harbour--Wild...
Chapter Xxi : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 512 CHAPTER XXI MAURITIUS TO ENGLAND Mauritius, beautiful appearance of--Great crateriform ring of mountains--Hindoos--St. Helena--History of the changes in the vegetation--Cause of the extincti...
Chapter Viii : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 150 CHAPTER VIII Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento--Value of an Estancia--Cattle, how counted--Singular Breed of Oxen--Perforated Pebbles--Shepherd-dogs--Horses broken-in, Gauchos Riding--Character of Inhabitants--Rio...
Chapter Xvii : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 396 CHAPTER XVII GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO The whole group volcanic--Number of craters--Leafless bushes--Colony at Charles Island--James Island--Salt-lake in crater--Natural history of the group--Ornithology, curious...
Chapter Ii : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 18 CHAPTER II Rio de Janeiro--Excursion north of Cape Frio--Great Evaporation--Slavery--Botofogo Bay--Terrestrial Planari--Clouds on the Corcovado--Heavy Rain--Musical Frogs--Phosphorescent Insects--Elater, springing powers...
Chapter X : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 214 CHAPTER X Tierra del Fuego, first arrival--Good Success Bay--An account of the Fuegians on board--Interview with the savages--Scenery of the forests--Cape Horn--Wigwam Cove--Miserable conditi...
Chapter Xx : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 480 CHAPTER XX KEELING ISLAND:--CORAL FORMATIONS Keeling Island--Singular appearance--Scanty Flora--Transport of seeds--Birds and insects--Ebbing and flowing springs--Fields of dead coral--Stones transported in the roots...
Chapter Vi : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 110 CHAPTER VI Set out for Buenos Ayres--Rio Sauce--Sierra Ventana--Third Posta--Driving Horses--Bolas--Partridges and Foxes--Features of the Country--Long-legged Plover--Teru-tero--Hail-storm--Natural Enclosures in the Sierr...
Chapter Xiv : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 310 CHAPTER XIV San Carlos, Chiloe--Osorno in eruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina--Ride to Cucao--Impenetrable forests--Valdivia--Indians--Earthquake--Concepcion--Great earthquake--Rocks fissured--Appearance...
Chapter Xix : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 458 CHAPTER XIX AUSTRALIA Sydney--Excursion to Bathurst--Aspect of the woods--Party of natives--Gradual extinction of the aborigines--Infection generated by associated men in health--Blue Mountains--View of the grand gulf-like...
Chapter Xv : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 333 CHAPTER XV Valparaiso--Portillo Pass--Sagacity of mules--Mountain-torrents--Mines, how discovered--Proofs of the gradual elevation of the Cordillera--Effect of snow on rocks--Geological structure of the two main ranges, their...
Title Page : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], A NATURALIST'S VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD by CHARLES DARWIN, M.A., F.R.S. First Edition "May 1860" Second Edition "May 1870" Third Edition "February 1872" Fourth Edition "July 1874" Fifth Edition "March 1876" Sixth Edition "January...
Chapter Iii : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 39 CHAPTER III Monte Video--Maldonado--Excursion to R--Polanco--Lazo and Bolas--Partridges--Absence of Trees--Deer--Capybara, or River Hog--Tucutuco--Molothrus, cuckoo-like habits--Tyrant-flycatcher--Mocking-bird--Carri...
Prefatory Notice To The Illustrated Edition : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], PREFATORY NOTICE TO THE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. This work was described, on its first appearance, by a writer in the "Quarterly Review" as "One of the most interesting narratives of voyaging that it has fallen to our lot to take up...
Chapter Xviii : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 427 CHAPTER XVIII TAHITI AND NEW ZEALAND Pass through the Low Archipelago--Tahiti--Aspect--Vegetation on the mountains--View of Eimeo--Excursion into the interior--Profound ravines--Succession of waterfalls--Number of wild useful...
Chapter Xi : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 243 CHAPTER XI Strait of Magellan--Port Famine--Ascent of Mount Tarn--Forests--Edible fungus--Zoology--Great Seaweed--Leave Tierra del Fuego--Climate--Fruit-trees and productions of the southern coasts--Height of snow-line...
Chapter Vii : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 128 CHAPTER VII Excursion to St. F--Thistle Beds--Habits of the Bizcacha--Little Owl--Saline Streams--Level Plains--Mastodon--St. F--Change in Landscape--Geology--Tooth of extinct Horse--Relation of the Fossil and recent...
Author's Preface : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], AUTHOR'S PREFACE. I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and in the "Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle", that it was in consequence of a wish expressed by Captain Fitz Roy, of having some scientific pers...
Chapter Xii : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 267 CHAPTER XII Valparaiso--Excursion to the Foot of the Andes--Structure of the land--Ascend the Bell of Quillota--Shattered masses of greenstone--Immense valleys--Mines--State of miners--Santiago--Hot-baths...
Chapter Iv : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 64 CHAPTER IV Rio Negro--Estancias attacked by the Indians--Salt Lakes--Flamingoes--R. Negro to R. Colorado--Sacred Tree--Patagonian Hare--Indian Families--General Rosas--Proceed to Bahia Blanca--Sand Dunes--Negro...
Chapter Xvi : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 359 CHAPTER XVI Coast-road to Coquimbo--Great loads carried by the miners--Coquimbo--Earthquake--Step-formed terraces--Absence of recent deposits--Contemporaneousness of the Tertiary formations--Excursion up the valley--Road...
Chapter I : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], JOURNAL CHAPTER I Porto Praya--Ribeira Grande--Atmospheric Dust with Infusoria--Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish--St. Paul's Rocks, non-volcanic--Singular Incrustations--Insects the first Colonists of Islands--Fernando...
Chapter Ix : * "The Voyage of the Beagle", by Charles Darwin, 11th ed. [1890], p. 186 CHAPTER IX Santa Cruz--Expedition up the River--Indians--Immense Streams of basaltic lava--Fragments not transported by the River--Excavation of the valley--Condor, habits of--Cordillera--Erratic boulders of gre...