22 Charles Darwin. 



It was often a very lively end of the little craft, and 

 distressingly so to my old friend, who suffered greatly 

 from sea-sickness. After perhaps an hour's work he 

 would say to me, ' Old fellow, I must take the hori- 

 zontal 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 

 labours 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." 



In following our hero on his long voyage the 

 reader cannot fail to be impressed with two things : 

 his remarkable powers of observation, and the care 

 and patience with which he made his investigations 

 and consequent deductions ; and when it is borne in 

 mind that the investigator was still a very young 

 man fresh from college, the nature of his observations 

 and the comprehensiveness of the ground covered 

 will appear more remarkable. Darwin, as we have 

 seen from the letter of Admiral Stokes, was a victim 

 to sea-sickness, and, curiously enough, it clung to him 

 with unrelenting pertinacity during the entire voy- 

 age. After an uneventful trip the Cape Verd Islands 

 were reached, where the young naturalist for the first 

 time found himself in a tropical field. St. Jago, the 

 largest island of the group, was the first examined ; 

 here he saw actual volcanic effects, barren rocks, 

 a torrid sun, and deep groves of graceful bananas 

 and cocoa-nuts. The barren stretch of rocks and de- 

 nuded portions of the island attracted his attention, 

 and investigation showed that it was due partly to 



