During his historic journey aboard the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin spent over a month on

an island off the coast of Chile known as Chilaway.

It wasn't his final destination, but he still managed to work and collect information

and specimens, including a small endangered fox known now as Darwin's Zoro.

He also witnessed the after-effects of an earthquake.

It made note of a rainbow that transitioned from the typical semi-circle to a full circle

right before his eyes, but it was the people he encountered that seemed to impact him the

most.

He later wrote,

�They are a humble, quiet, industrious set of men.

Although with plenty to eat, the people are very poor, and the lower orders cannot

scrape together money sufficient to purchase even the smallest luxuries.�

He also noted seeing a pair of black-necks swans, but thankfully Darwin didn't have the

same view of birds that the local people did.

And still do, actually.

One local historian recalls how, when he was a boy, a hunchback heron flew low over

his fishing boat.

When he told his father, the older man grabbed his shotgun and waited for the bird to

return.

Why?

Because for as long as anyone could remember, the people of Chilaway have believed that

some birds are more than they appear.

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