CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



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Objects of the Voyage — The Beagle commissioned— Her former 

 career — Her first Commander -Instructions from the Admiralty 

 and the Hydrographer— Officers and Crew— Arrival at Plymouth — 

 Embark Lieuts. Grey and Lushington's Exploring Party — Chrono- 

 metric Departure — Farewell glance at Plymouth — Death of King 

 William the Fourth . . . .1 



CHAPTER II. 



PLYMOUTH TO BAHIA. 



Sail from Plymouth — The Eight Stones — Peak of Tencrife — Approach 

 to Santa Cruz — " La Cueva de Los Guanches" — Trade with Moga- 

 dore — Intercourse between Mogadore and Mombas — Reason to 

 regret Momhas having been given up— Sail from Tenerife — Search 

 for rocks near the equator — Arrival at San Salvador — Appearance 

 of Bahia — State of the Country — Slave Trade — And results of 

 Slavery — Extension of the Slave Trade on the eastern coast of 

 Africa — Moral condition of the Negroes — Middy's Grave — Depar- 

 ture from Bahia— Mr. "Very Well Dice" . . 31 



CHAPTER III. 



FROM THE CAPE TO SWAN RIVEE. 



A gale — Anchor in Simon's Bay — H.M.S. Thalia — Captain Harris, 

 and his Adventures in Southern Africa — Proceedings of the Land 

 Party — Leave Simon's Bay — An overloaded ship — Heavy weather 

 and wet decks — Island of Amsterdam — Its true longitude — St. 

 Paul's — Water — Westerly variation — Rottenest Island — Gage's 

 Road — Swan River Settlement — Freemantle — An inland lake — 

 Plans for the future — Illness of Captain Wiekham — Tidal Pheno- 

 mena — Perth — Approach to it — Narrow escape of the first settlers — 

 Tlie Darling Range — Abundant Harvest — Singular flight of stranoe 

 birds — Curiotis Cliff near Swan River — Bald Head — Mr. Darwin's 

 Theory — The Natives — Miago — Anecdotes of Natives — Their 

 Superstitions — Barbarous traditions, their uses and their lessons . 43 



