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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... five brothers were his friends , and my mother was so fond of him that she often called him her dear sixth son . ' He was at every party in our house , and went with us wherever we accepted an invitation ; always accompanying us to ...
... five brothers were his friends , and my mother was so fond of him that she often called him her dear sixth son . ' He was at every party in our house , and went with us wherever we accepted an invitation ; always accompanying us to ...
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... five ) , to my courage , and to the habit of self - reliance I had ac- quired in the hard school of life , during the time when I was obliged to provide , not only for my children , but some- times for my husband also . As regarded ...
... five ) , to my courage , and to the habit of self - reliance I had ac- quired in the hard school of life , during the time when I was obliged to provide , not only for my children , but some- times for my husband also . As regarded ...
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... five miles ) , and , arriving on the following day , was received with their wonted hearty kindness by my dear friends , Professor Weisz and his wife . The journey from Munich to Berlin offers few points of interest : the views are ...
... five miles ) , and , arriving on the following day , was received with their wonted hearty kindness by my dear friends , Professor Weisz and his wife . The journey from Munich to Berlin offers few points of interest : the views are ...
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... five are planers , thirty cutters , and ninety grinders . These men earn each from thirty to seventy and eighty Dutch guilders per week . In Amsterdam I saw also the sugar - refining works of Messrs . Spakler , Neoten , and Fetterode ...
... five are planers , thirty cutters , and ninety grinders . These men earn each from thirty to seventy and eighty Dutch guilders per week . In Amsterdam I saw also the sugar - refining works of Messrs . Spakler , Neoten , and Fetterode ...
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... five , might fancy , on first seeing the pressure and crush in the streets of Paris , that some public festival was being celebrated . The centres of all this life are the Boulevards ; and very bright and fairy - like is the scene there ...
... five , might fancy , on first seeing the pressure and crush in the streets of Paris , that some public festival was being celebrated . The centres of all this life are the Boulevards ; and very bright and fairy - like is the scene there ...
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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...