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Explorers in the works The History and Topography of Ireland and Voyage of the Beagle are awestruck and impressed with the ability of the aboriginal people to have such pride in who they are, where they come from, and all they have accomplished. In The Journals and Lewis and Clark there was no substantial evidence of this impressment. However, in all three works, the explorers feel completely superior to their way of life. <…

…and what they believe in. This made the explorers see these aboriginals in a different light. However, although they were impressed with these things, the explorers did not want to be compared to them because they were in no way as civilized as themselves. They judged their lives and felt completely superior to them. In conclusion, without these explorers and their accounts of their explorations, nothing would be known of these uncivilized, yet interesting people.