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The Beagle Research Paper

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The weather was now good and the Beagle is ready to sail, today is the 26th of December. Unfortunately, the opportunity was lost because of to the entire crew being either missing or drunk from the celebrating christmas.
It is now the morning of December the 27th 1831, H.M.S. Beagle, with a crew of seventy-three men, we sailed out of Plymouth harbor under this calm wind and drizzly rain. I became seasick almost instantly and I am starting to have second thoughts about the voyage. The Beagle arrived near Madeira Island, its first port-of-call, on 4 January 1832. Unfortunately a violent gust of wind coming from the west prevented our ship from making port. I took little notice of this turn of events, as I felt too ill to even leave this cabin.

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