"I
do not suppose any part of the world is so rainy as the Island of Chiloé"
"In
winter the climate is detestable, and in summer it is only a little better. I
should think there are few parts of the world, within the temperate regions,
where so much rain falls. The winds are very boisterous, and the sky almost always
clouded: to have a week of fine weather is something wonderful"
"Pigs
and potatoes are as plentiful as in Ireland. With the exception of this weighty
advantage, Chiloe, from its climate is a miserable hole"
"Now thanks to Cambridge University the entire sketchbooks of Conrad Martens, a shipmate of Darwin’s on the HMS Beagle, are available online. Martens made the drawings between the summer of 1833 and the early months of 1835. They “vividly bring to life one of the most famous voyages in the world and arguably the most famous in the history of science” said Dr Alison Pearn, Associate Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project." Citado desde aqui
Por Conrad Martens
"Now thanks to Cambridge University the entire sketchbooks of Conrad Martens, a shipmate of Darwin’s on the HMS Beagle, are available online. Martens made the drawings between the summer of 1833 and the early months of 1835. They “vividly bring to life one of the most famous voyages in the world and arguably the most famous in the history of science” said Dr Alison Pearn, Associate Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project." Citado desde aqui
