...the astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party of [natives] on a wild and broken shore . . . , for the reflection at once rushed into my mind - such were our ancestors (187 1:404). We can now make our voyage by broadening such horizons to include not only those on the...

...reverted to their native ways. Years later, Darwin reconstructed his experiences at Tierra del Fuego: The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party...their expression was wild, startled, and distrustful ... He who has seen a savage in his native land will not feel much shame if forced to acknowledge that...

...the barbarity and savagery of nonwhites to Darwin's The Descent of Man, where we read, for example, "The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party...on a wild and broken shore will never be forgotten . . . , for the reflection at once rushed into my mind — such were our ancestors . . . [and that]...

...inhabitants. The Fuegians were to crop up again in a crucial passage at the end of The Descent of Man: The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party...once rushed into my mind — such were our ancestors. He who has seen a savage in his native land will not feel much shame, if forced to acknowledge that...

...less than charitable about his experiences in South America on his Beagle voyage, forty years before: "The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party...their expression was wild, startled and distrustful ... He who has seen a savage in his native land will not feel much shame, if forced to acknowledge...

...continues: . . . there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians. The astonishment I felt on first seeing a party of Fuegians on a wild...absolutely naked and bedaubed with paint, their long hair entangled, their 24 See, eg, Ryan 1985. At the same time it should be noted that Darwin is thoroughly...

...recalled with a full measure of Victorian revulsion his own unfortunate encounter with primitives: The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party...forgotten by me, for the reflection at once rushed into my mind—such were our ancestors. These men were absolutely naked and bedaubed with paint, their long...

...traumatic encounter. As he repeated toward the end of his Descent of Man, "The astonishment which I felt on seeing a party of Fuegians on a wild and broken shore will never be forgotten by me."23 That astonishment, I want to maintain, helped transform Darwin into an unconscious racist of...

...highly distasteful to many. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians. The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party...rushed into my mind — such were our ancestors." Thus he connected his mature theory to the shock of his youthful encounter.16 The Descent of Man used...

...we are descended from barbarians. The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party of Feugians on a wild and broken shore will never be forgotten...reflection at once rushed into my mind — such were our ancestors.These men were absolutely naked and bedaubed with paint, their long hair was tangled, their...