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NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO PATAGONIA AND TERRA DE...

On 22 May 1826  HMS Beagle left Plymouth Sound on her maiden voyage  accompanying HMS Adventure
to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego to survey the Strait of Magellan. Years later  Royal Naval
officer John Macdouall proclaimed himself 'one whose visit to Port Famine  and sometime
residence on that inhospitable coast  have left no wish of re-visiting it  really or
metaphorically'. Nevertheless  his first-hand account of the first nineteen months of the
Beagle's voyage  originally published in 1833  is a highly entertaining read. With an amusing
combination of self-deprecation and caustic observation  and in preference to 'the trouble of
detailing the monotonous course of a long sea voyage'  Macdouall relates anecdotes about life
aboard ship and the peoples and places encountered. While unforgiving of 'absurd' Spanish
customs and 'national indolence'  and Rio de Janeiro's 'bowing hypocritical Portuguese'  he
offers a generally kinder portrait of Fuegian and Patagonian 'savages'. This is a reprint of
the original book fisr published in 1833.

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