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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Página xxvii
... slave , whose purpose appeared to be robbery and mur- der . The miscreant was armed with a knife ; she received more than one wound , and only owed her life to casual help which arrived at the critical moment . At the beginning of ...
... slave , whose purpose appeared to be robbery and mur- der . The miscreant was armed with a knife ; she received more than one wound , and only owed her life to casual help which arrived at the critical moment . At the beginning of ...
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... slave - ship , we loitered for two whole days in accomplishing this little distance of nineteen German miles . The rain fortunately ceased a few miles from Salzburg , and , moreover , the scenery is very fine to within four miles of ...
... slave - ship , we loitered for two whole days in accomplishing this little distance of nineteen German miles . The rain fortunately ceased a few miles from Salzburg , and , moreover , the scenery is very fine to within four miles of ...
Página 74
... slaves . The French government naturally de- manded satisfaction , though there was little chance of ob- taining justice without resorting to violent measures ; and thus every one was prepared , as I have said , for the break- ing out ...
... slaves . The French government naturally de- manded satisfaction , though there was little chance of ob- taining justice without resorting to violent measures ; and thus every one was prepared , as I have said , for the break- ing out ...
Página 105
... slaves - negroes , Malabar Indians , and Malagaseys , from whose intermarriages all kinds of shades of color and nationality arose . Since the abolition of slavery in the year 1835 , almost all the working - people have come from India ...
... slaves - negroes , Malabar Indians , and Malagaseys , from whose intermarriages all kinds of shades of color and nationality arose . Since the abolition of slavery in the year 1835 , almost all the working - people have come from India ...
Página 128
... slave - trade , dis- covered by France and countenanced by England . The negro is only in servitude for five years , and receives two dollars per month from his master , besides board and lodg- ing . After five years he has leave to ...
... slave - trade , dis- covered by France and countenanced by England . The negro is only in servitude for five years , and receives two dollars per month from his master , besides board and lodg- ing . After five years he has leave to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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...