Spent the greater part of these days in the city, transacting business. After dinner on the 13th sailed for Maldonado; arrived there at 11 at night, making a good passage.
The Beagle Diary was later used to write Darwin's famous book 'Voyage of the Beagle' (1839). The narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836. Darwin describes each day of the voyage, some in intimate detail, during the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe.