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Boat Memory

Summary

Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…

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  • … Anne. 2010.  European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after Darwin. …

Elleparu (York Minster)

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Elleparu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. He was captured by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 after one the small boats used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del Fuego…

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  • … Anne. 2010.  European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after Darwin. …

Yokcushlu (Fuegia Basket)

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Yokcushlu was one of the Alakaluf, or canoe people from the western part of Tierra del Fuego. She was one of the hostages seized by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, after the small boat used for surveying the narrow inlets of the coast of Tierra del…

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  • … Anne. 2010.  European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after Darwin. …

Orundellico (Jemmy Button)

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Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego.  He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…

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  • … Anne. 2010.  European encounters with the Yamana people of Cape Horn, before and after Darwin. …

Books on the Beagle

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The Beagle was a sort of floating library.  Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

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  • … to works in notes made during periods ashore at Santiago, Cape Town, and Sydney have been examined …
  • … book’ ( Voyage , p. 196). In another field notebook, at Cape Town in May 1836, he lists, probably …
  • … Colnett, James.  A voyage to the South Atlantic and round Cape Horn . . .  London, 1798. (DAR 31.2 …
  • … for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope and the interjacent …
  • … the table mountain, and other parts of the Peninsula of the Cape. Drawn up by Professor Playfair, …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • … list with me.— Harvey has published ‘Genera of Cape Plants’ [Harvey 1838].— Quayle …
  • … 107 M. de Castelnau, Cattle in Brazil with singular Horn [Castelnau 1846],  or  his …
  • … through Sweden, Finland,   and Lapland, to the North Cape, in 1798 and 1799, etc . 2 vols. London …
  • … … and sketches of the various tribes   surrounding the Cape of Good Hope . 2 vols. London. 119: …
  • … James Fox. 1848.  Journal of a residence at   the Cape of Good Hope; with excursions into the …
  • …   coasts and islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape   Verd, the passage by Terra del Fuego …
  • …   plants, arranged according to the natural system.  Cape Town.  *128: 159 ——. 1849.  …
  • … 8) Levaillant, François. 1790.  Travels from the Cape of Good   Hope into the interior …
  • … in the interior of Africa, and a journey   from the Cape of Good Hope to Luanda, on the west coast …
  • … Africa, in the years   1834–1836; fitted out by the Cape of Good Hope Association   for …
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