B60 CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN". 



four months ago. you would not grudge the labor 

 lost in keeping up the regular series of letters." 



Later he writes : " It is too delightful to think 

 that I shall see the leaves fall and hear the robin 

 sing next autumn at Shrewsbury. My feelings are 

 those of a schoolboy*to the smallest point; I doubt 

 whether ever boy longed for his holidays as much 

 as I do to see you all again." I 



To his " dear Henslow " he writes : " It is now 

 some months since we have been at a civilized 

 port; nearly all this time has been spent in the 

 most southern part of Tierra del Fuego. . . . The 

 Fuegians are in a more miserable state of barbar- 

 ism than I had expected ever to have seen a human 

 being. In this inclement country they are abso- 

 lutely naked, and their temporary houses are like 

 what children make in summer with boughs of 

 trees." 



Captain Fitz-Eoy, on a previous voyage, had 

 carried several natives to England, and now 

 brought them again to their own land. " They had 

 become," says Darwin, " entirely European in their 

 habits and wishes, so much so that the younger one 

 had forgotten his own language, and their country- 

 men paid but very little attention to them. We 

 built houses for them, and planted gardens, but by 

 the time we return again on our passage round the 

 Horn, I think it will be very doubtful how much 

 of their property will be left unstolen." 



At the Cape of Good Hope, Darwin met and 

 dined with Sir John Herschel. For some time he 



