FERNANDO NORONHA. 



JOURNAL 



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 Confervse and Infusoria — Causes of dis- 

 coloured Sea. 



ST. JAGO CAPE DE VERB ISLANDS 



After having been twice driven back by heavy south-western 

 gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the 

 command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport 

 on the 27th of December 1831. The object of the expedi- 

 tion was to complete the survey of Patagonia and Tierra del 

 Fuego, commenced under Captain King in 1826 to 1830 — to 

 survey the shores of Chile, Peru, and of some islands in the 

 Pacific — and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements 

 round the World. On the 6th of January we reached Teneriffe, 

 but were prevented landing, by fears of our bringing the cholera: 

 the next morning we saw the sun rise behind the rugged outline 

 of the Grand Canary Island, and suddenly illumine the Peak of 



