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How Charles Darwin Found Inspiration on the Cape Verde Islands

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Maukish & sweet with little flavor,” he noted in his journal from Santiago, the main island in the Cape Verde archipelago off the coast of West Africa. Cape Verde, then a Portuguese colony, gave Darwin his first taste of his own scientific talent. β€œHe I know every road of Cape Verde,” Mr. Rodrigues assured me.