CHARLES ROBERT DARU'IN. 3^3 



take the horizontal for it/ that being the best 

 relief position from ship motion. A stretch out 

 on one side of the table for some time would 

 enable him to resume his labors for a while, when 

 he had again to lie down. It was distressing to 

 witness this early sacrifice of Mr. Darwin's health, 

 who ever afterwards seriously felt the ill effects of 

 the Beagle's voyage." 



Admiral Mellersh says : " I think he was the 

 only man I ever knew against whom I never heard 

 a word said ; and as people, when shut up in a ship 

 for five years, are apt to get cross with each other, 

 that is saying a good deal." Says another : " He 

 was never known to be out of temper, or to say 

 one unkind or hasty word of or to any one." 



This lovely spirit, which so endeared him to 

 everybody, Darwin kept through life, a spirit 

 which sheds a halo around every book he wrote, 

 and makes him worthy the admiration and honor 

 of every young man. Many persons have the gift 

 of writing books, but comparatively few persons 

 have the great gift of self-control. 



After a brief visit with his family, Darwin hast- 

 ened to Cambridge, to prepare his " Journal of 

 Travels." He had learned on the Beagle that 

 " a man who dares to waste one hour of time has 

 not discovered the value of life." After three 

 months of hard work, he went to London, where 

 he finished the " Journal," and began working on 

 his " Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle," and 

 his " Geological Observations." He said at this 



