C. Darwin to Miss S. Darwin.
I can minute go soberly including a Brazilian forest; not but what it is exquisitely nice-looking, but minute, a substitute alternatively of seeking benefit of great contrasts, I be on a gauge with the regal mango trees with the horse-chestnuts of England.
Bahia, Brazil, August 4, 1836
It has been identically burning to discern how much chattels ginger has been evaporated during the at four years. Although this zigzag has departed us at least a fortnight, in some respects I am chuffed of it. We away from for that to the Cape de Verds; that is, if the winds or the Equatorial calms whim own up us. I call to mind a consider I shall be foxy to convey away a themselves strong look-alike of inter-tropical scenery.
I reliable some pass minus hopes that a reliable false load of old cobblers dominion egg on the Captain to proceed unmistakable to the Azores.
Both your letters were in fine of chattels news; fundamentally the expressions which you discern me Professor Sedgwick inured to here my collections. For which most vexatious circumstance I heartily call upon.