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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... soldier respected the house where the suffering mother lay , and the practice once prevailed throughout Holland . It has now fallen into disuse , and is only kept up in Haarlem . Besides Colonel Steuerwald , who paid me the kindest at ...
... soldier respected the house where the suffering mother lay , and the practice once prevailed throughout Holland . It has now fallen into disuse , and is only kept up in Haarlem . Besides Colonel Steuerwald , who paid me the kindest at ...
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... soldiers who have been frequent- ly wounded in battle , or have lost an arm or a leg . The building seems very conveniently arranged , and the old pensioners are said to be well treated ; but no one has thought of providing a grass ...
... soldiers who have been frequent- ly wounded in battle , or have lost an arm or a leg . The building seems very conveniently arranged , and the old pensioners are said to be well treated ; but no one has thought of providing a grass ...
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... soldiers , and about a dozen Europeans and Creoles from Bourbon . Except the few houses belonging to these latter , and to a few well - to - do Hovas and Mala- gaseys , one sees nothing but little huts , some scattered about without ...
... soldiers , and about a dozen Europeans and Creoles from Bourbon . Except the few houses belonging to these latter , and to a few well - to - do Hovas and Mala- gaseys , one sees nothing but little huts , some scattered about without ...
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... Soldiers and Officers . - Banquet and Ball . - De- parture from Tamatavé . —Second Visit to Antandroroko . — Vovong.— The Fever . - Andororanto . -Land and Cultivation . - Condition of the People . - Manambotre . - The bad Roads and the ...
... Soldiers and Officers . - Banquet and Ball . - De- parture from Tamatavé . —Second Visit to Antandroroko . — Vovong.— The Fever . - Andororanto . -Land and Cultivation . - Condition of the People . - Manambotre . - The bad Roads and the ...
Página 158
... soldiers whom I saw in the processions at Tamatavé pleased me well enough . They went through their drill and manœuvres with tolerable accuracy , and , contrary to my expectation , I found the music not only endurable , but positively ...
... soldiers whom I saw in the processions at Tamatavé pleased me well enough . They went through their drill and manœuvres with tolerable accuracy , and , contrary to my expectation , I found the music not only endurable , but positively ...
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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...