Submitted by PeterPavement on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 12:51
Reports on his trip across the Atlantic Ocean and arrival in the tropics of Brazil.
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Submitted by PeterPavement on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 12:51
Reports on his trip across the Atlantic Ocean and arrival in the tropics of Brazil.
Writes with great happiness about the first part of the voyage, after his misery from seasickness passed. He finds himself well prepared, the ship quiet, comfortable, and compact; he has already a "rich harvest" and finds the natural history (especially geology) exceedingly interesting. The tropics are full of great beauty.
CD’s enjoyment of the beauty of the tropics is worth all the misery of seasickness. His mail gave him great pleasure. For two weeks he will visit a large estate in the country, and on return live at Botofogo for some weeks, collecting and learning to know the tropics.
Beagle is again in Brazil because of need to check on "singular disagreements in the Longitudes".
Pleased by Sedgwick’s praise.
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