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

　　At the end of May 1834 the Beagle entered the Straits of Magellan for the last time and then exited into the Pacific. Stormy weather made sailing slow, and they put in on Chiloe Island to wait for better weather. The ship s purser died there. They reached Valparaiso, the chief port of Chile, on July 23, 1834. An old acquaintance from Shrewsbury was living there, and Darwin stayed as a guest in his house. Like many of his shipmates, he was ill for the first few weeks of his stay. In fact, it appears as though Fitzroy suffered a nervous breakdown in Valparaiso, and this delayed their departure. Darwin used the extra time to set out on an expedition across the Andes to the Argentine town of Mendoza. In November 1834 Fitzroy took the Beagle south again to Chiloe Island. Darwin was able to get a specimen of the very rare Chilotan fox by walking up behind it while it was observing two British officers take measurements and hitting it on the head with his geological hammer. On February 20, 1835 at Valdivia on the coast of Chile, they experienced the strongest earthquake that anyone in the area had experienced, which destroyed the city of Concepcion farther north. When they reached Concepcion, Darwin found that the earthquake had permanently raised the land and saw evidence of such uplift from previous quakes as well.