新GRE写作名人素材库：达尔文_GRE写作

新GRE写作名人素材库：达尔文

　　In January 1833, the Beagle sailed into the Beagle Channel south of the large island of Tierra del Fuego. It was hit by a storm that lasted 24 days and at one point almost overturned the ship. Darwin was seasick for most of the time. The aim in going to Tierra del Fuego was to return three native Fuegians that Fitzroy had taken on board during a previous voyage. With them went a missionary, sent to convert the Fuegians to Christianity. On their arrival, one of the Fuegians did not want to return home, and the ship had to return a week later to pick up the missionary who had been threatened with his life by the Native Americans on the island. Soon after, they almost lost the ship s boats when a glacier calved and created giant waves that almost washed the boats out to sea.

　　In March and April 1833 the Beagle spent five weeks in the Falkland Islands, which had just been claimed by Great Britain. It spent the southern winter in the harbor in Montevideo. In August 1833 Fitzroy left Darwin ashore at the little town of Carmen de Patagones while the ship carried out routine surveying chores. Darwin rode overland to Bahia Blanca where he re-examined the fossil remains and thought about their significance. By the time he left on September 8, 1833 he had begun to doubt the accepted view that the species were unchangeable and had existed in their current form ever since the Creation. His entire outlook on the nature of life had changed. He was careful, however, not to share his views with Fitzroy, who remained a firm Creationist all his life.