his share in producing ' ' The Origin of Species.' ' Q When LITTLE 

 urged to smoke, Darwin repUed, " I am not making JOURNEYS 

 any new necessities for myself." 



^A^hen the weather was rough the " Flycatcher" was 

 sick, much to Wickham's delight, but if the ship was 

 becalmed, Darwin came out and gloried in the sun- 

 shine, and in his work of dissecting, labeling and wri- 

 ting memoranda and data. The sailors might curse the 

 w^eather, he did not. 

 Thus passed the days. 



At each stop many specimens w^ere secured and these 

 were to be sorted and sifted out at leisure. 

 On shore the Captain had his work to do, and it was 

 only after a year that Darwin accidentally discovered 

 that the sailor who was sent to carry his specimens, 

 w^as always armed "with knife & revolver, and his orders 

 were not so much to carry what W^ickham called, 

 " the damn plunder," as to see that no harm befell the 

 ** Flycatcher." 



Fitz-Roy's interest in the scientific work was only 

 general — longitude, latitude, his twenty-four chronom- 

 eters, his maps and constant soundings, with minute 

 records kept his time occupied. For Darwin and his 

 specimens, however, he had a constantly growing re- 

 spect, and when the long five-years' trip was ended 

 Darwin realized that the gruff and grim Captain was 

 indeed his friend. Captain Fitz-Roy had trouble with 

 everybody on board in turn, thus proving his impar- 

 tiality, but when parting was nigh, tears came to his 

 eyes as he embraced Darwin, and said, with prophetic 



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