Darwin records his experimentations with a hammock.
03-Dec-1831: Darwin’s first night aboard HMS Beagle
beagle diary
13-Jan-1833: The day HMS Beagle nearly sank
Charles Darwin’s closest brush with death during the Beagle voyage came on Sunday 13th January 1833, near that most infamous of nautical perils, Cape Horn.
12-Feb-1834: Darwin’s 25th birthday, Patagonia
How Charles Darwin spent his 25th birthday.
A miserable birthday aboard HMS Beagle
On Charles Darwin's miserable 23rd birthday (his first aboard HMS Beagle).
05-Aug-1832: Darwin under fire (get used to it, Charles!)
On 5th August 1832, in what he described as ‘an eventful day’, Charles Darwin and his HMS Beagle colleagues helped put down an armed insurrection in Argentina.