After having been twice driven back by heavy south-western gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831.
Charles DARWIN, Journal of Researches into the Geology & Natural History of the Various Countries visited during the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle round the World, 1839.
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