The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer: Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar : with an Autobiographical Memoir of the AuthorHarper, 1861 - 281 páginas |
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... building , originally a convent , on the banks of the lake , to be converted into a bathing hotel , with fifty rooms , and it has been very tastefully arranged . A neat garden sur- rounds the building , the kitchen is well supplied ...
... building , originally a convent , on the banks of the lake , to be converted into a bathing hotel , with fifty rooms , and it has been very tastefully arranged . A neat garden sur- rounds the building , the kitchen is well supplied ...
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... buildings are of stone , are sufficiently roomy , and generally have an upper story ; the roof is constructed in the Swiss manner , almost flat , and weighted with heavy stones , as a protection against the violent storms which pre ...
... buildings are of stone , are sufficiently roomy , and generally have an upper story ; the roof is constructed in the Swiss manner , almost flat , and weighted with heavy stones , as a protection against the violent storms which pre ...
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... build on ground where the foundation must be almost created , so to speak , by driving heavy piles . Generally the building below the ground costs quite as much as all the rest of the structure . Amsterdam is intersected by numerous ...
... build on ground where the foundation must be almost created , so to speak , by driving heavy piles . Generally the building below the ground costs quite as much as all the rest of the structure . Amsterdam is intersected by numerous ...
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... buildings , but none of remark- able appearance except the royal palace - the council - house of old times . This is built in a grand style , and beautified with excellent sculpture . I must farther mention a few peculiarities of ...
... buildings , but none of remark- able appearance except the royal palace - the council - house of old times . This is built in a grand style , and beautified with excellent sculpture . I must farther mention a few peculiarities of ...
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... building is more than a hundred feet long and three stories high . The various operations are conducted in the following way : the rough diamond passes first into the hands of the planer , then into those of the cutter , and finally is ...
... building is more than a hundred feet long and three stories high . The various operations are conducted in the following way : the rough diamond passes first into the hands of the planer , then into those of the cutter , and finally is ...
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afterward Alexander von Humboldt appeared arrived bearers beautiful BIOGRAPHY OF IDA Bourbon capital Carl Ritter carried certainly Christians costume court Creoles death dress Dutch Dutch guilders Dutch Republic English European favor feast feet fever fortunate French frequently friends girls give half handsome Herr Holland honor Hovas hundred Ida Pfeiffer inhabitants invited island journey kabar kind King Radama Laborde Lambert land live looked Madagascar Mademoiselle Julie Malagasey Mauritius miles missionaries months morning mother natives never night nobles obliged officers once oxen palace Paris passed Peter Booth poor Port Louis possession present Prince Rakoto Queen Ranavola received rice round royal scarcely seemed seen ship Sikidy simbu slaves soldiers Spanish dollar sugar Sumatra Tamatavé Tananariva thing tion To-day told took town traveling trees Vienna village voyage weeks whole wish woman women Zaandam
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Página 146 - Some let these tails hang all about their heads, while others unite them into bands or bunches, so as to cover the whole head. This kind of head-dress takes a good deal of time in preparing, particularly in the cases of the richer Malagaseys, who have their hair plaited into an infinite number of these little tails. On the head of one of these native beauties I counted above sixty plaits. The good lady's slaves must have had a good day's work in bringing them to the right pitch of perfection. On...