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Arrived late in Cape Town. There is only one good hotel, so that all strangers live in boarding houseS - a very uncomfortable fashion about 13 hours ago via HMSBeagle
With the exception of the pleasure which the sight of entirely new vegetation never fails to communicate, there is very little of interest about 18 hours ago via HMSBeagle
There being nothing worth seeing I have procured a gig & set out for the Cape town, 22 miles distant about 21 hours ago via HMSBeagle
The town of Simon's Bay offers a cheerless aspect. A couple of hundred square whitewashed houses, few gardens & scarcely a single tree about 23 hours ago via HMSBeagle
Came to an anchor in Simon's Bay 12:51 PM May 31st via HMSBeagle
Nine months’ letters are wandering over the wide ocean, which we shall not receive till some time after reaching England 5:51 AM May 30th via HMSBeagle
The gale we encountered which strongly reminded us of the old days, near Cape Horn 5:51 AM May 29th via HMSBeagle
All the fragments of the civilized world in the southern hemisphere, appear to be flourishing; little embryo Englands hatching in all parts 5:51 AM May 28th via HMSBeagle
he ocean teems with life, no one can watch the Flying-fish, Dolphin & Porpoises without pleasure. 6:51 AM May 27th via HMSBeagle
the misery od sea-sickness is excessive & far exceeds what a person would suppose who had never been at sea more than a few days 6:51 AM May 26th via HMSBeagle
Each atoll is a monument over an island now lost 6:51 AM May 25th via HMSBeagle
It is astonishing, the vastness of the areas which have changed in level, downwards or upwards, within a period not geologically remote 6:51 AM May 24th via HMSBeagle
We see the soft body of a polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of an ocean 6:51 AM May 23rd via HMSBeagle
Impossible to see the waves without conviction that an island, though built of granite, would be demolished by such irresistible power 6:51 AM May 22nd via HMSBeagle
It is said that trunks of northern firs are washed on shore: they must have come from an immense distance 6:51 AM May 21st via HMSBeagle
London will be most convenient. I grieve to think of it; for a good walk in the country is the greatest delight which I can imagine. 6:51 AM May 20th via HMSBeagle
I look forward with a comical mixture of dread & satisfaction to the amount of work, which remains for me in England 6:51 AM May 19th via HMSBeagle
I am very glad I have come on the expedition; but only that I am still gladder it is drawing to a close. 6:51 AM May 18th via HMSBeagle
I will take good care no one shall shall ever persuade me again to volunteer as Philosopher (my accustomed title) even to a line of Battle S 6:51 AM May 17th via HMSBeagle
It is interesting to discover how numerous the seeds are, which, coming from several countries, are drifted over the wide ocean 6:51 AM May 16th via HMSBeagle

Name Charles Darwin
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Bio Geologist, naturalist and gentleman. On board The Beagle with Capt Fitzroy on a voyage around the world