228 THE VOYAGE. .^TAT. 25. [1834. 



Cameron, Watkins, Marinden, the two Thompsons of Trinity, 

 Lowe, Heaviside, Matthew. Herbert I have heard from. 

 How is Henslow getting on ? and all other good friends of 

 dear Cambridge ? Often and often do I think over those 

 past hours, so many of which have been passed in your com- 

 pany. Such can never return, but their recollection can 

 never die away. 



God bless you, my dear Whitley, 



Believe me, your most sincere friend, 



Chas. Darwin. 



C. Darwin to Miss C. Darwin. 



Valparaiso, November 8, 1S34. 



My dear Catherine, 



My last letter was rather a gloomy one, for I was not 

 very well when I wrote it. Now everything is as bright as 

 sunshine. I am quite well again after being a second time in 

 bed for a fortnight. Captain Fitz-Roy very generously has 

 delayed the ship ten days on my account, and without at the 

 time telling me for what reason. 



We have had some strange proceedings on board the 

 Beagle^ but which have ended most capitally for all hands. 

 Captain Fitz-Roy has for the last two months been working 

 extremely hard, and at the same time constantly annoyed by 

 interruptions from officers of other ships; the selling the 

 schooner and its consequences were very vexatious ; the cold 

 manner the Admiralty (solely I believe because he is a Tory) 

 have treated him, and a thousand other, &c. &c.'s, has made 

 him very thin and unwell. This was accompanied by a 

 morbid depression of spirits, and a loss of all decision and 

 resolution. . . . All that Bynoe [the Surgeon] could say, that 

 it was merely the effect of bodily health and exhaustion after 

 such application, would not do ; he invalided, and Wickham 

 was appointed to the command. By the instructions Wickham 

 could only finish the survey of the southern part, and would 

 then have been obliged to return direct to England. The 



