Arrival in England
The Beagle arrived back in Plymouth from her first voyage of exploration in mid-October 1830. The newspapers soon started publishing details of the exotic visitors and they became celebrities. In London, they met King William IV. Fuegia Basket, only a young girl, got a bonnet from Queen Adelaide herself.
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