The Officers all seemed very weary of this place I am not surprised at it: it must be to them a place of exile: Last year there had been plenty of Quail to shoot, but this year they have not appeared; this resource exhausted, the last tie which bound them to existence, seemed on the point of being dissolved.
- Charles Robert Darwin, Beagle diary
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