Captain Robert Fitzroy
This extract, from his account
of the Voyage of the Beagle,
is read by an actor.
"We landed upon black,
dismal looking heaps
of broken lava
forming a shore fit for Pandemonium.
Innumerable crabs and hideous iguanas
started in every direction
as we scrambled from rock to rock."
"Few animals are uglier
than these iguanas.
They are lizard shaped,
about 3 feet in length,
of a dirty black colour;
with a great mouth
and a pouch hanging under it;
a kind of horny mane
upon the neck and back;
and long claws and tails.
These reptiles swim with ease
and swiftness,
but use their tails only
at that time."
