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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... mother . Shortly before her decease she had expressed the wish that I should arrange and prepare for publication the ... mother's papers waiting for me there ; but the loss was too recent , and my grief too violent , to allow me to read ...
... mother . Shortly before her decease she had expressed the wish that I should arrange and prepare for publication the ... mother's papers waiting for me there ; but the loss was too recent , and my grief too violent , to allow me to read ...
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... mother undertook the education of the girl , who was now nearly nine years old . Though the father had appeared formidable to the children by his strictness , his rule appeared to the girl far preferable to the melan- choly régime of ...
... mother undertook the education of the girl , who was now nearly nine years old . Though the father had appeared formidable to the children by his strictness , his rule appeared to the girl far preferable to the melan- choly régime of ...
Página xii
... mother would not allow her to have her way in this mat- ter , and the piano - forte was formally subsidized and main- tained at its post by maternal authority . When the year 1809 came , a most eventful period for Austria , Ida was ...
... mother would not allow her to have her way in this mat- ter , and the piano - forte was formally subsidized and main- tained at its post by maternal authority . When the year 1809 came , a most eventful period for Austria , Ida was ...
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... mother , who then held her by the shoulders lest she should repeat the trick . But nothing was gained by this manoeuvre , for when the emperor came riding back with his glittering staff of marshals around him , Miss Ida reso- ndow ...
... mother , who then held her by the shoulders lest she should repeat the trick . But nothing was gained by this manoeuvre , for when the emperor came riding back with his glittering staff of marshals around him , Miss Ida reso- ndow ...
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... mother had given him secret directions to treat me with especial indulgence , as a child whose earliest impulses had received a wrong bias . He certainly behaved to me with great kindness and delicacy , and showed great patience and ...
... mother had given him secret directions to treat me with especial indulgence , as a child whose earliest impulses had received a wrong bias . He certainly behaved to me with great kindness and delicacy , and showed great patience and ...
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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...