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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... months , I returned from Buenos Ayres to Rio de Janeiro , I found my mother's papers waiting for me there ; but the loss was too recent , and my grief too violent , to allow me to read them then , much less to peruse them with the care ...
... months , I returned from Buenos Ayres to Rio de Janeiro , I found my mother's papers waiting for me there ; but the loss was too recent , and my grief too violent , to allow me to read them then , much less to peruse them with the care ...
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... months together , living meanwhile on the most miserable food . The chief characteristics of Ida Pfeiffer's courage , endurance , and indifference to pain and hardship became developed by an eccentric course of education , which would ...
... months together , living meanwhile on the most miserable food . The chief characteristics of Ida Pfeiffer's courage , endurance , and indifference to pain and hardship became developed by an eccentric course of education , which would ...
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... months after her father's death the first attempt was made to deprive the girl of the attire she had hitherto worn , and substituted petticoats for their masculine equiv- alents . Little Ida , then ten years old , was so indignant at ...
... months after her father's death the first attempt was made to deprive the girl of the attire she had hitherto worn , and substituted petticoats for their masculine equiv- alents . Little Ida , then ten years old , was so indignant at ...
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... months . The journal of this second voyage appeared under the title , " Voyage to the Scandinavian North and the Island of Iceland , " in two volumes , at Pesth , and was much read . The money realized by a sale of the geological and ...
... months . The journal of this second voyage appeared under the title , " Voyage to the Scandinavian North and the Island of Iceland , " in two volumes , at Pesth , and was much read . The money realized by a sale of the geological and ...
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... month in making its way from Hamburg through the English Channel — as long a time as it required to get from thence to the equator . On the 16th of September the har- bor of Rio Janeiro was reached . From that port Ida Pfeiffer made ...
... month in making its way from Hamburg through the English Channel — as long a time as it required to get from thence to the equator . On the 16th of September the har- bor of Rio Janeiro was reached . From that port Ida Pfeiffer made ...
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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...