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	Cape Verde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cape Verde was uninhabited when the Portuguese arrived in 1456, and the islands were thus made part of the Portuguese empire.
		In Cape Verde itself the PAICV (affiliated with the PAIGC) ruled until elections were held in 1991 that resulted in a change of government.
		The government of Cape Verde is based on a Constitution that was established in 1980.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/cape_verde (612 words)

	Chapter XX. Darwin, Charles Robert. 1909-14. The Voyage of the Beagle. The Harvard Classics
		In this island there is a large bay-like space, composed of the finest white sand: it is quite level and is only covered by the tide at high water; from this large bay smaller creeks penetrate the surrounding woods.
		The accumulation of a wide bank of sediment all round these islands, and generally widest where the included islands are smallest, is highly improbable, considering their exposed positions in the central and deepest parts of the ocean.
		Now, as the island sinks down, either a few feet at a time or quite insensibly, we may safely infer, from what is known of the conditions favourable to the growth of coral, that the living masses, bathed by the surf on the margin of the reef, will soon regain the surface.
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	The Voyage Of The Beagle
		On the 16th of January, 1832, we anchored at Porto Praya, in St. Jago, the chief island of the Cape de Verd archipelago.
		The volcanic nature of these oceanic islands is evidently an extension of that law, and the effect of those same causes, whether chemical or mechanical, from which it results that a vast majority of the volcanoes now in action stand either near sea-coasts or as islands in the midst of the sea.
		Captain Colnett remarks, that this appearance is very common among the Galapagos Islands, and that the directions of the bands indicate that of the currents; in the described case, however, the line was caused by the wind.
	www.infidels.org /library/historical/charles_darwin/voyage_of_beagle/Chapter1.html (6173 words)

	Cape Verde - Geography, Environment and Ecosystem
		Cape Verde, officially known as the Republic of Cape Verde (Portuguese- Republica de Cabo Verde), is an island archipelago lying 600 km west of Dakar, Senegal, the westernmost point of continental Africa.
		The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Republic of Cape Verde, Senegal
		Noxious Beetles of the Cape Verde Islands - Geisthardt and van Harten
	www.umassd.edu /specialprograms/caboverde/cvgeog.html (359 words)

	The Cape Verd Islands. / Jefferys, Thomas / 1788
		The heart of this atlas and the most detailed part is the sixteen sheet large chart and index sheet of the whole of the West Indies.
		The rest of the atlas consists of charts of the Atlantic Islands and the British Channel, as well as individual maps and charts of seventeen islands in the West Indies.
		Finally, Jefferys himself published in 1762 "A Description of the Spanish Islands and Settlements on the Coast of the West Indies" which was issued in quarto, with a general chart and 32 maps and plans of harbors and towns (P3941).
	www.davidrumsey.com /maps6485.html (667 words)

	Charles Darwin: The Voyage Of The Beagle: Chapter 17: Galapagos Archipelago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This fact of shells from islands in the central parts of the Pacific occurring here, deserves notice, for not one single sea-shell is known to be common to the islands of that ocean and to the west coast of America.
		But it is the circumstance, that several of the islands possess their own species of the tortoise, mocking-thrush, finches, and numerous plants, these species having the same general habits, occupying analogous situations, and obviously filling the same place in the natural economy of this archipelago, that strikes me with wonder.
		And lastly, the profound depth of the ocean between the islands, and their apparently recent (in a geological sense) volcanic origin, render it highly unlikely that they were ever united; and this, probably, is a far more important consideration than any other, with respect to the geographical distribution of their inhabitants.
	www.ling.upenn.edu /courses/Fall_1999/hum100/Beagle17.html (9414 words)

	Fontaneda
		These islands extend from west to east, and as the mainland of Florida lies at no great distance to the eastward, these animals could easily pass over from the peninsula, and thence from island to island.
		DE BRY and also other writers state that the Indians gathered gold and silver to a limited extent from the streams of the auriferous mountains of Carolina and Georgia, and worked them into ornaments, which they wore as pendants.
		There is a shoal of rock (bajo de piedra) along the length of the island a league and one-half to seaward, which runs the length of the island, at the foot of which there is so much water that there is no bottom in many areas.
	www.treasurelore.com /florida/fontaneda.htm (10354 words)

	Insular Floras, by Joseph Dalton Hooker
		We have thus in the Cape de Verd Islands a certain relationship with the Canaries and Madeira almost to the exclusion of the Azores; but it is a feeble one, and so blended with that of the African continent, and especially of the Mediterranean region, as to suggest other considerations than what concern us here.
		That if we demand continental extension for some islands, it must be admitted for all, which is, according to his views of the permanence of the general outlines and dispositions of the continents and sea-beds, during the later geological epochs, quite inadmissible.
		Nor should it be overlooked, that as a general rule, islands diminish in size and numbers towards the centres of the great oceans, which, taken with the admission, that the great islands adjacent to the continents were previously united to them, would favour the hypothesis that all may have been so.
	www.wku.edu /%7Esmithch/biogeog/HOOK1866.htm (7140 words)

	The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin (chapter1)
		The object of the expedition was to complete the survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under Captain King in 1826 to 1830--to survey the shores of Chile, Peru, and of some islands in the Pacific--and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the World.
		The island would generally be considered as very uninteresting, but to any one accustomed only to an English landscape, the novel aspect of an utterly sterile land possesses a grandeur which more vegetation might spoil.
		On a small plain which we crossed, a few stunted acacias were growing; their tops had been bent by the steady trade-wind, in a singular manner--some of them even at right angles to their trunks.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /d/darwin/charles/beagle/chapter1.html (6253 words)

	Letters from the Cape Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We shall be still three weeks before we reach the Cape; and now the sun sets with a sudden plunge before six, and the evenings are growing too cold again for me to go on deck after dinner.
		M. de Villiers has had no education AT ALL, and has worked, and traded, and farmed,--but the breed tells; he is a pure and thorough Frenchman, unable to speak a word of French.
		If the Cape had the grape disease as badly as Madeira, it would be the making of the colony.
	www.richread.com /97lddfg10.html (23293 words)

	CHAPTER 1: ST. JAGO-CAPE DE VERD ISLANDS
		The object of the expedition was to complete the survey of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, commenced under Captain King in 1826 to 1830, -- to survey the shores of Chile, Peru, and of some islands in the Pacific—and to carry a chain of chronometrical measurements round the World.
		of January, 1832, we anchored at Porto Praya, in St. Jago, the chief island of the Cape de Verd archipelago.
		On a small plain which we crossed, a few stunted acacias were growing; their tops had been bent by the steady trade-wind, in a singular manner—some of them even at right angles to their trunks.
	www.human-nature.com /darwin/voyage/chap1.html (6106 words)

	Darwin: Journal of Researches
		When the island was discovered, the immediate neighbourhood of Porto Praya was clothed with trees,[1] the reckless destruction of which has caused here, as at St. Helena, and at some of the Canary islands, almost entire sterility.
		In this case, both the direction of the heavy gales of wind and of the currents of the sea are favourable to the transport of seeds from Tierra del Fuego, as is shown by the canoes and trunks of trees drifted from that country, and frequently thrown on the shores of the Western Falkland.
		These great Rodents occasionally frequent the islands in the mouth of the Plata, where the water is quite salt, but are far more abundant on the borders of fresh-water lakes and rivers.
	www.galapagos.to /TEXTS/J-OF-R.HTM (21533 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Life \| It's an ill wind
		Charles Darwin's note from 1832 suggests the dust clouds that engulfed HMS Beagle as it anchored in St Jago in the Cape de Verd Islands off the African coast were dramatic, if unsettling.
		Earlier this year, scientists blamed a case of septicaemia in a loggerhead turtle found off the Canary islands on Staphylococcus xylosus, a bacterium found in dust samples from Mali.
		From air monitoring stations set up in the Virgin Islands, and from samples taken in Africa, Kellogg found that not only were microbes able to travel the thousands of miles from Africa, but that nearly a third of those that survived were known pathogens.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/feature/story/0,13026,1363670,00.html (1276 words)

	Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		from islands in the central parts of the Pacific occurring here, deserves notice, for not one single sea-shell is known to be common to the islands of that ocean and to the west coast of America.
		I never dreamed that islands, about 50 or 60 miles apart, and most of them in sight of each other, formed of precisely the same rocks, placed under a quite similar climate, rising to a nearly equal height, would have been differently tenanted; but we shall soon see that this is
		They appear to have learnt caution more slowly at these latter islands than at the Falklands, where they have had proportionate means of experience; for besides frequent visits from vessels, those islands have been at intervals colonised during the entire period.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /charles.darwin/texts/beagle_voyage/beagle17.html (9663 words)

	J.'s World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There were only few opportunities left, so I opted for Cape Verde not really knowing what to expect.
		The very start was made as complicated as possible: the flight was scheduled at 9:20 am from Munich.
		The map is The Cape Verd Islands, laid down from the remarks and observations of experienced navigators, by Mons.
	www.jdot.de /caboverde/index_e.html (138 words)

	Islands of Cape Verde - 1719 - by Mallet
		Islands of Cape Verde - 1719 - by Mallet
		Mallet was a well traveled military engineer and geographer who worked in 17th century France under King Louis XIV.
		A charming early 18th century map of these African coastal islands surrounded by tall ships.
	www.oldmapsbooks.com /MapPage/MapPages529xx/52922capv.htm (200 words)

	St. Vincent 1747
		A beautiful, 18th-century, engraved map of St. Vincent Island, one of the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
		The top view is of part of St. Vincent Island and part of St. Antoine Island, and shows sounding depths, some large rocks, as well as woods and marshes.
		The bottom view is a ship's recognition, or profile, of the Island.
	www.oldmapsbooks.com /MapPage/MapPages571xx/57101stvincent.htm (198 words)

	Kapverden - weltweite ReiseTräume: Reisen, Reiseberichte, Linksammlung, Reiseinformation, Urlaub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is about 50 photos from my album, showing the fortnight's vacation in Cape Verde in Oct-Nov 1997, which I spent travelling around on three islands.
		Photographies de Carlos Casteleira: Ce travail a été réalisé dans le cadre d'un projet qui a permis la réalisation de 3000 images noir et blanc et couleur sur le territoire et les hommes du Cap-Vert.
		Cabo Verde Preiswert & Individuell Orte - Menschen - Landschaften
	www.reisetraeume.de /weltweit/cv.html (2438 words)

	Letters from the Cape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I saw plenty of partridges on the road, but was not early enough to see boks, who only show at dawn; neither have I seen baboons.
		D- went down to sell cold chickens, andc., and I went with her, and sat under a tree in the bed of the little stream, now nearly dry.
		de Villiers has had no education AT ALL, and has worked, and traded, and farmed, - but the breed tells; he is a pure and thorough Frenchman, unable to speak a word of French.
	www.abbol.com /books/lettersfromthecape.htm (21025 words)

	A chart of the Maderas and Canary Islands. / Jefferys, Thomas / 1787
		All historical cartographic items are from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, http://www.davidrumsey.com/, a large collection of online historical maps.
		Inset maps: Plan of El Rio Harbour, between Graciosa and Lanzarote by Captain George Glas -- Plan of Puerto de Naos and Puerto Cavallo, in the Isle of Lanzarote, by Captain George Glas.
		Full Title: A chart of the Maderas and Canary Islands, according to surveys published at Madrid in 1780, by Don Thomas Lopes, Geographer to His Catholick Majesty and ascertained by the astronomic observations of the Chevalier de Fleurieu, made by order of the French government in 1769.
	www.davidrumsey.com /maps6486.html (728 words)

	[No title]
		The sugar-birds, which are the humming-birds of Africa, could not be fed; but Caffre finks, which weave the pendent nests, are hardy and easily fed. To-day the post for England leaves Caledon, so I must conclude this yarn.
		That you may duly appreciate such a feat of valour and activity, I will inform you that their English name is 'tortoise'.
		On the strength of this effort, we drank a bottle of beer, as it was very hot and sandy; and our Malay was a WET enough Mussulman to take his full share in a modest way, though he declined wine or 'Cape smoke Soopjes' (drams) with aversion.
	www.bralyn.net /etext/literature/lady.duff.gordon/lddfg10.txt (24302 words)

	Bibliography
		Carpenter, Charles C. “The Marine Iguana of the Galápagos Islands, Its Behavior and Ecology.” In Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Fourth Series, 34, 6 pp.
		To the South Seas: The Cruise of the Schooner Mary Pinchot to the Galapagos, the Marquesas, and the Tuamotu Islands, and Tahiti.
		Containing Descriptions of the Cape de Verd Islands, Coasts of Brazil, Patagonia, Chili, and Peru, and of the Gallapagos Islands; also, A full Account of the Washington Groupe [sic] of Islands, the Manners, Customs, and Dress of the Inhabitants,andc.
	www.galapagos.to /BOOKS.HTM (4421 words)

	Letters from the Cape Lady Gordon
		Letters from the Cape by Lady Duff Gordon Letters from the Cape LETTER I - THE VOYAGE Wednesday, 24th July.
		We anchored yesterday morning, and Captain J-, the Port Captain, came off with a most kind letter from Sir Baldwin Walker, his gig, and a boat and crew for S- and the baggage.
		M. de Villiers has had no education AT ALL, and has worked, and traded, and farmed, - but the breed tells; he is a pure and thorough Frenchman, unable to speak a word of French.
	jollyroger.com /library/LettersfromtheCapebyLadyGordonebook.html (23060 words)

	Letters from the Cape
		We had private theatricals last night—ill acted, but beautifully got up as far as the sailors were concerned.
		de Villiers has had no education at all, and has worked, and traded, and farmed,—but the breed tells; he is a pure and thorough Frenchman, unable to speak a word of French.
		Without the south-easter (or ‘Cape doctor’) they must have fevers, andc.; and though too rough a practitioner for me, he benefits the general health.
	www.gutenberg.net /etext97/lddfg10h.htm (21934 words)

	Plan of Porto Praya in the... (G214:11/12) - National Maritime Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Plan of Porto Praya in the Island of St Jago.
		The Cape Verde Islands were a Portuguese colony and had long been used as a staging post for slaving vessels.
		Dickinson was a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers who carried out a survey of the fortifications in 1812.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /collections/collectionsDetail.cfm?ID=G214:11/12 (117 words)

	Obituary (1888)
		Three weeks after leaving England the ship touched land for the first time at St. Jago, in the Cape de Verd Islands, and Darwin found his attention vividly engaged by the volcanic phenomena and the signs of upheaval which the island presented.
		In 1844, he published his observations on the volcanic islands visited during the voyage of the "Beagle." In 1845, a largely remodelled edition of his "Journal" made its appearance, and immediately won, as it has ever since held, the favour of both the scientific and the unscientific public.
		The very first place which I examined, namely, St. Jago, in the Cape de Verd Islands, showed me clearly the wonderful superiority of Lyell's manner of treating Geology, compared with that of any other author whose words I had with me or ever afterwards read "–(I. p.
	aleph0.clarku.edu /huxley/CE2/DarwObit.html (8978 words)

	Pictures Catalogue - Porcher, Edwin Augustus, d. 1878. Cape de Verd [i.e. Verde] Islands, Porto Praya in the island of ...
		Verde] Islands, Porto Praya in the island of St. Jago [picture] / - fullindex.htm test
		Verde] Islands, Porto Praya in the island of St. Jago [picture] / [Edwin Augustus Porcher]
		Title from inscription on mount.; "93".; Work executed on a voyage to Australia and adjoining islands in H.M.S. Fly.; With: Cape of Good Hope, H.M.S. Fly....
	nla.gov.au /nla.pic-an4103006 (66 words)

	Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa, and its Islands. Historical and Descriptive Sketches of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa, and its Islands.
		Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Madeira, Canary, Biafra and Cape Verd Islands; Their Climates, Inhabitants and Productions.
		THOMAS, REV. CHAS, Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa, and its Islands.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/cum/33677.shtml (147 words)

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