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

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

 ? any new necessities for myself." 



When 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 

 weather, he did not. 

 Thus passed the days. 



At each stop many specimens were 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, 

 was always armed with knife & revolver, and his orders 

 were not so much to carry what Wickham 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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