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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... rest exclu- sively on the authority of the heroine herself . Madame Ida Pfeiffer left behind her a short outline of her life writ- ten by her own hand , and her family very courteously per- mitted this manuscript to be used . It is to ...
... rest exclu- sively on the authority of the heroine herself . Madame Ida Pfeiffer left behind her a short outline of her life writ- ten by her own hand , and her family very courteously per- mitted this manuscript to be used . It is to ...
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... rest until it was put in execution . " Greater privations and fatigue than I had endured in Syria and Iceland , " she writes , " I could scarcely have to encounter . The expense did not frighten me , for I knew by experience how little ...
... rest until it was put in execution . " Greater privations and fatigue than I had endured in Syria and Iceland , " she writes , " I could scarcely have to encounter . The expense did not frighten me , for I knew by experience how little ...
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... rest . Ida Pfeiffer's fame spread more and more after this jour ney round the world ; for a woman who , trusting to herself alone for protection , could travel 2800 miles by land and 35,000 by sea , was looked upon , not unnaturally ...
... rest . Ida Pfeiffer's fame spread more and more after this jour ney round the world ; for a woman who , trusting to herself alone for protection , could travel 2800 miles by land and 35,000 by sea , was looked upon , not unnaturally ...
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... rest with the wife of the respected physician , Dr. Pleninger , of Linz . This amiable lady insisted upon my taking up my quarters in her house . Unfortunately , I had but a short time to stay at Linz , IDA PFEIFFER'S LAST TRAVELS. ...
... rest with the wife of the respected physician , Dr. Pleninger , of Linz . This amiable lady insisted upon my taking up my quarters in her house . Unfortunately , I had but a short time to stay at Linz , IDA PFEIFFER'S LAST TRAVELS. ...
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... rest have naturally no course left but to seek a service , to learn a trade , or to emigrate . Even in the other provinces , where the estates are divided , there is a great deal of poverty , and emigration is always going on . Why this ...
... rest have naturally no course left but to seek a service , to learn a trade , or to emigrate . Even in the other provinces , where the estates are divided , there is a great deal of poverty , and emigration is always going on . Why this ...
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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...