Upgrade to the Flash 9 viewer for enhanced content, including
the ability to browse & search through your favorite titles.
Click here to learn more! St. Jago-Cape de Verd Islands 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
Noronha-Bahia-Burnished Rocks-Habits of a Diodon-Pelagic
Confervæ and Infusoria-Causes of discoloured Sea. After having
been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her
Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of
Captain Fitz Roy, R. N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of
December, 1831. The object of the expedition was to complete the
survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under
Captain King in 1826 to 1830-to survey the shores of Chile,
Peru, and of some islands in the Pacific-and to carry a chain of
chronometrical measurements round the World. On the 6th of
January we reached Teneriffe, but were pre