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St. Jago ; Cape de Verd islands
Rio de Janeiro
Maldonado
Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca
Bahia Blanca
Bahia Blanca to Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires and St. Fe
Banda Oriental and Patagonia
Santa Cruz, Patagonia, and the Falkland Islands
Tierra del Fuego
Strait of Magellan ; climate of the southern coasts
Central Chile
Chiloe and Chonos Islands
Chiloe and Concepcion: great earthquake
Passage of the Cordillera
Northern Chile and Peru
Galapagos archipelago
Tahiti and New Zealand
Australia
Keeling Island ; coral formations
Mauritius to England.
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Introduction / H. Graham Cannon --
Chapter I --
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 discolored sea --
Chapter II --
Rio de Janeiro --
Excursion north of Cape Frio --
Great evaporation --
Slavery --
Botofogo Bay --
Terrestrial planariæ --
Clouds on the Corcvado --
Heavy rain --
Musical frogs --
Phosphorescent insects --
Elater, springing powers of --
Blue haze --
Noise made by a butterfly --
Entomology --
Ants --
Wasp killing a spider --
Parasitical spider --
Artifices of an epeira --
Gregarious spider --
Spider with an unsymmetrical web --
Chapter III --
Monte Video --
Maldonado --
Excursion to R. Polanco --
Lazo and Bolas --
Partridges --
Absence of trees --
Deer --
Capybara, or river hog --
Tucutuco --
Molothrus, cuckoo-like habits --
Tyrant flycatcher --
Mocking-bird --
carrion hawks --
Tubes formed by lightning --
House struck --
Chapter IV --
Rio Negro --
Estancias attacked by the Indians --
Salt lakes --
Flamingoes --
R. Negro to R. Colorado --
Sacred tree --
Patagonian hare --
Indian families --
General Rosas --
Proceed to Bahia Blanca --
Sand dunes --
Negro lieutenant --
Saline incrustations --
Punta Alta --
Zorillo --
Chapter V --
Bahia Blanca --
Geology --
Numerous gigantic extinct quadrapeds --
Recent extinction --
Longevity of species --
Large animals do not require a luxuriant vegetation --
Southern Africa --
Siberian fossils --
Two species of ostrich --
Habits of Oven-bird --
Armadilloes --
Venomous snake, toad, lizard --
Hybernation of animals --
Habits of Sea-pen --
Indian wars and massacres --
Arrow-head, antiquarian relic.
Chapter VI --
Set out for Buenos Ayres --
Rio Sauce --
Sierra Ventana --
Third Posta --
Driving horses --
Bolas --
Partridges and foxes --
Features of the country --
Long-legged Plover --
Teru-tero --
Hailstorm --
Natural enclosures in the Sierra Tapalguen --
Flesh of Puma --
Meat diet --
Guardia del Monte --
Effects of cattle on the vegetation --
Cardoon --
Buenos Ayres --
Corral where cattle are slaughtered --
Chapter VII --
Excursion to St. Fé --
Thistle-beds --
Habits of the Bizcacha --
Little Owl --
Saline streams --
Level plains --
Mastadon --
Change in landscape --
Tooth of extinct horse --
Relation of the fossil and recent quadrupeds of North and South America --
Effect of a great drought --
Parana --
Habits of the Jaguar --
Scissor-beak --
King-fisher, Parrot, and Scissor-tail --
Revolution --
Buenos Ayres --
State of government --
Chapter VIII Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento --
Value of an estancia --
Cattle, how counted --
Singular breed of oxen --
Perforated pebbles --
Shepherd-dogs --
Horses broken-in, gauchos riding --
Character of inhabitants --
Rio Plata --
Flocks of butterflies --
Aëronaut spiders --
Phosphorescence of the sea --
Port Desire --
Guanaco --
Port St. Julian --
Geology of Patagonia --
Fossil gigantic animal --
Types of organization constant --
Change in the zoology of America --
Causes of extinction --
Chapter IX Santa Cruz --
Expedition up the river --
Indians --
Immense streams of basaltic lava --
Fragments not transported by the river --
Excavation of the valley --
Condor, habits of --
Cordillera --
Erratic boulders of great size --
Indian relics --
Return to the ship --
Falkland Islands --
Wild horses, cattle, rabbits --
Wolf-like fox --
Fire made of bones --
Manner of hunting wild cattle --
Geology --
Streams of stones --
Scenes of viiolence --
Penguin --
Geese --
Eggs of Doris --
Compound animals.
Chapter X Tierra del Fuego, first arrival --
Good Success Bay --
Account of the Fuegiams on board --
Interview with the savages --
Scenery of the forests --
Cape Horn --
Wigwam Cove --
Miserable condition of the savages --
Famines --
Cannibals --
Matricide --
Religious feelings --
Great gale --
Beagle Channel --
Ponsonby Sound --
Build wigwams and settle the Fuegians --
Bifurcation of the beagle Channel --
Glaciers --
Second visit in the ship to the settlement --
Equality of condition amongst the natives --
Chapter XI Strait of Magellan --
Port Famine --
Ascent of Mount Tarn --
Forests --
Climate --
Fruit trees and productions of the Southern coasts --
Height of snow-line on the Cordillera --
Descent of glaciers to the sea --
Icebergs formed --
Transportal of boulders --
Climate and productions of the Antarctic Islands --
Preservation of frozen carcasses --
Recapitulation --
Chapter XII Valparaiso --
Excursion to the foot of the Andes --
Structure of the land --
Ascend the Bell of Quillota --
Shattered masses of greenstone --
Immense valleys --
Mines --
State of miners --
Santiago --
Hot-baths of Cauquenes --
Gold-mines --
Grinding-mills --
Perforated stones --
Habits of the puma --
El Turco and Tapacolo --
Humming-birds --
Chapter XIII Chiloe --
Castro --
Tame fox --
Ascend San Pedro --
Chanos Archipelago --
Peninsula of tres Montes --
Granitic range --
Boat-wrecked sailors --
Low's Harbour --
Wild potato --
Formation of peat --
Myopotamus, otter, and mice --
Cheucau and barking-bird --
Opetiorhynchus --
Singular character of ornithology --
Petrels --
Chapter XIV San Carlos, Chiloe --
Osorno in erruption, contemporaneously with Aconcagua and Coseguina --
Ride to Cucao --
Valdivia --
Rocks fissured --
Appearance of the former towns --
Sea black and boiling --
Directions of the vibrations --
Stones twisted round --
great wave --
Permanent elevation of the land --
Area of the volcanic phenomena --
Connexion between the elevatory and eruptive forces --
Causes of earthquakes --
Slow elevation of mountain-chains.
Chapter XV Portillo Pass --
Sagacity of mules --
Mountain torrents --
Mines, how discovered --
Proofs of the gradual elevation of the Cordillera --
Effect of snow on rocks --
Geological structure of the two main ranges, their distinct origin and upheaval --
Great subsidence --
red snow Dry and clear atmosphere --
Electricity --
Pampas --
Zoology of the opposite side of the Andes --
Locusts --
great bugs --
Mendoza --
Uspallata Pass --
Silicified trees buried as they grew --
Incas Bridge --
Badness of the passes exaggerated --
Cumbre --
Casuchas --
Chapter XVI Coast-road to Coquimbo --
Great loads carried by the miners --
Step-formed terraces --
Absence of recent deposits --
Contemporaneousness of the tertiary formations --
Valley of the Copoapó --
Rain and earthquakes --
Hydrophobia --
Despoblado --
Indian ruins --
Probable change of climate --
River-bed arched by earthquake --
Elevated shells on San Lorenzo, their decomposition --
Plain embedded with shells and fragments of pottery --
Antiquity of the Indian race.
Chapter XVIII Galapagos Archipelago --
Whole group volcanic --
Number of craters --
Leafless bushes --
Colony at Charles Island --
James Island --
Salt-lake in crater --
Natural history of the group --
Ornithology, curious finches --
Reptiles --
Great tortoises, habits of --
marine lizard, feeds on sea-weed --
Terrestrial lizard, burrowing habits, herbivorous --
Importance of reptiles in the archipelago --
Fis, shells, insects --
Botany --
American type of organization --
Differences in the species or races on different islands --
Tameness of the birds --
fear of man, an acquired instinct --
Chapter XVIII Pass through the Low Archipelago --
Tahiti --
Vegetation on the mountains --
View of Eimeo --
Excursion into the interior --
Profound ravines --
Succession of waterfalls --
Number of wild useful plants --
Temperance of the inhabitants --
Their moral state --
Parliament convened --
New Zealand --
Bay of Islands --
Hippahs --
Excursion to Waimate --
Missionary establishment --
English weeds now run wild --
Waiomio --
Funeral of a New Zealand woman --
Sail for Australia --
Chapter XIX Sydney --
Excursion to Bathurst --
Gradual extinction of the Aborigines --
Infection generated by associated men in health --
Blue mountains --
Van Dieman's land --
King George's Sound --
Bald head, calcareous casts of branches of trees --
Leave Australia --
Chapter XX Keeling Island --
Scanty flora --
Transport of seeds --
Ebbing and flowing wells --
Fields of dead coral --
Stones transported in the roots of trees --
Great crab --
Stinging corals --
Coral-eating fish --
Lagoon islands or atolls --
Depth at which reef-building corals can live --
Barrier reefs --
Conversion of fringing reefs into barrier reefs and into atolls --
Breaches in barrier reefs --
Maldiva Atolls; their peculiar structure --
dead, submerged reefs --
Distribution of volcanoes --
Subsidence slow, and vast in amount --
Chapter XXI Mauritius, beautiful appearance of --
Great crateriform ring of mountains --
Hindoos --
St. Helena --
History of the changes in the vegetation --
Cause of the extinction of land-shells --
Variation in the imported rats --
Volcnic bombs --
Beds of Infusoria --
Bahia --
Brazil --
Splendour of tropical scenery --
Pernambuco --
Singular reef --
Slavery --
Return to England --
Retrospect on our voyage.
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Subjects
Subjects
Beagle Expedition -- (1831-1836)
Biography
Description and travel
Discovery and exploration
Geology
History
Informational works
Natural history
Nature
Nonfiction
Science
Science & Technology
South America -- Description and travel
South America -- Discovery and exploration
Theosophical Subject - Science
Travel
Voyages around the world
Voyages around the world -- History -- 19th century
Biography
Description and travel
Discovery and exploration
Geology
History
Informational works
Natural history
Nature
Nonfiction
Science
Science & Technology
South America -- Description and travel
South America -- Discovery and exploration
Theosophical Subject - Science
Travel
Voyages around the world
Voyages around the world -- History -- 19th century
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Case, David Reader
Darwin, Charles Author
Darwin, Charles Author
Dawkins, Richards Reader
National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Darwin, Charles Author
Darwin, Charles Author
Dawkins, Richards Reader
National Geographic Society (U.S.)
ISBN
9788854401761
9781573927734
9781666567489
9781620115961
9780792265597
9780460101042
9781907416293
9781400128969
9780486424897
9781775413127
9780460111041
9781573927734
9781666567489
9781620115961
9780792265597
9780460101042
9781907416293
9781400128969
9780486424897
9781775413127
9780460111041
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1220L
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