Twain use this humorous situation throughout the passage because : it draws a parallel between common swindlers and those who rule the government
with this, he conveyed that the duke and the king are basically the same as common swindlers for the people
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The event now known as “the voyage of the Beagle” comprises Charles Darwin’s circumnavigation as ship’s naturalist on the second of three surveying voyages by H.M.S. Beagle<span>; the writings published as his first book, the </span>Journal of Researches<span>; and the genesis of his theory of evolution by natural selection. Writing between regimes of world-knowledge, Darwin mediates scientific observation through the language of aesthetics, and seeks to understand the convergence of disparate scales of geological and human history.</span>
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