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Butterflies at midday

Source: Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle (1839), Chapter II — public domain (Project Gutenberg eBook #944). Reused here only to exercise the piece template's components; it is not a real dataset piece.

Excursion north of Cape Frio

APRIL 4th to July 5th, 1832.--A few days after our arrival I became acquainted with an Englishman who was going to visit his estate, situated rather more than a hundred miles from the capital, to the northward of Cape Frio. I gladly accepted his kind offer of allowing me to accompany him.

April 8th.--Our party amounted to seven. The first stage was very interesting. The day was powerfully hot, and as we passed through the woods, everything was motionless, excepting the large and brilliant butterflies, which lazily fluttered about. We arrived by midday at Ithacaia; this small village is situated on a plain, and round the central house are the huts of the negroes. As the moon rose early, we determined to start the same evening for our sleeping-place at the Lagoa Marica.

April 9th.--We left our miserable sleeping-place before sunrise. The road passed through a narrow sandy plain, lying between the sea and the interior salt lagoons. We dined at Mandetiba; the thermometer in the shade being 84 degs. As the venda1 here was a very good one, and I have the pleasant, but rare remembrance, of an excellent dinner, I will be grateful and presently describe it, as the type of its class. These houses are often large, and are built of thick upright posts, with boughs interwoven, and afterwards plastered. Yet the host of this venda, being asked if he knew anything of a whip which one of the party had lost, gruffly answered, "How should I know? why did you not take care of it?--I suppose the dogs have eaten it."

"How should I know? why did you not take care of it?--I suppose the dogs have eaten it."

Malaysia and Korea HS 8542 (semiconductor) export values, USD billion, 2010–2025. Source: placeholder CSV.
YearMalaysia (USD bn)Korea (USD bn)
201022.837.9
201127.239.7
201226.141.3
201327.847.1
201431.051.5
201527.252.2
201626.652.3
201733.086.1
201845.8109.8
201944.879.1
202049.382.9
202159.6109.3
202278.6112.8
202374.786.1
202476.6120.2
2025145.6142.8
Malaysia and Korea semiconductor exports, HS 8542, 2010-2025.
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NOTES

  1. A roadside inn providing food and lodging to travellers in rural Brazil. 

  2. Claude Gay (1800–1873), French-Chilean naturalist who surveyed South American flora and fauna. 

  3. Darwin's own catalogue of terrestrial Planariae, collected across several Southern Hemisphere localities during the voyage. 

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