Beginning of the Trip of the Beagle

On December 27, 1831 the second passage of the Beagle began in the Bay of Plymouth. An important difference that it had with regard to the first one is that this time was provided between his crew with a 22-year-old young man, who would change the vision that the humanity has of the nature thanks to the experiences and remarks that it could assemble in this trip of almost five years (although it had been planned for something more about two... - it seems that even in the Big British Empire there were sometimes problems of organization, jeje-). We have to be grateful to captain Robert FitzRoy and to Francis Beaufort (his mentor) having invited, across his never adapted - grateful common friend John Henslow mentions, to this young naturalist to act like accompanist of the captain and, of step, to take part like member of the expedition entrusted to realize the scientific notes.
Such a naturalist was not different that the young man Darwin, who turned out to be much rewarded from the beginning of this trip, which was allowing him to move away from his native Inglatera and put into practice his passions collectors concerning the beetles (only in his first stops in Brazil and Uruguay it captured hundreds, which he sent diligently to Cambridge).
Also it realized remarks about the amazing fauna and vegetation of the South American Southern Cone, including the fossils of gliptodontes, interesting giant relatives of the armadillos, with big cuirasses without articulating. And he did not also forget to record all his remarks on the different indigenous cultures which it met. In fact, it had a lot of time for it, because the bad weather on the coasts of Earth of Fire forced them to wait. And Darwin lacked time there was included in different expeditions ground inside that the Argentine Pampa and the Patagonia explored.
When finally they managed to cross to the coasts of the South American Pacific Ocean, Darwin took part in several visits to the skirts of the Andes, where it realized numerous remarks of big geologic interest. Further on the beagle came to the Galapagos Islands, and from what it went on already there one has spoken very much... so why to repeat.
Seguidamente crossed the Pacific Ocean, doing scale in Tahiti and his lustful vegetation, to reach the British colonies of New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania, where it marveled with his vegetation, his rocky formations and especially with his strangest fauna, particularly the platypus.
In the Indian one it realized a scale in the islands Coconut and visited several coral islands, which they inspired to him to keep on exercising his talent as Geologist. And finally it came to South Africa, although on his stop in Cape Town it is possible only to be said that it was essentially administrative and of commissariat.
And after that, they headed for the native mother... or almost... because it was necessary to happen again for Brazil (what tragedy!) for turn to do a few measurements that the captain consider that be possible be erroneous...: what a better escusa! Very well, we can be useful now to mention that the original target of the whole trip of the Beagle was not that Darwin was walked by the wild grounds of half a world but cartografiar the coasts of South America, with all the mouths of the rivers, and to draw the different mountains and hills as they were seen from the sea, with measurements of his altitudes.

A very finished revision on the incidences of this long trip can be consult in AboutDarwin, although it is always advisable to read the entertaining history of trips that constituted the book "The Voyage of the Beagle" published by Darwin in 1839, three years after his return.
References

• Darwin, C.R. (1839) The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M. Ships Adventure and Beagle. III: Journal and Remarks, 1832-1836. Henry Colburn.