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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... wish that I should arrange and prepare for publication the papers she left concerning her last voyage to Madagascar . The dangerous illness which befell her in the Mauritius immediately after she had left Madagascar , and which , in ...
... wish that I should arrange and prepare for publication the papers she left concerning her last voyage to Madagascar . The dangerous illness which befell her in the Mauritius immediately after she had left Madagascar , and which , in ...
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... wish was to carve her own way through the world , sword in hand . Even in her early childhood she gave many proofs ... wishes ; con- sequently , his children were fed on simple , almost a parsi- monious diet , and were taught to sit ...
... wish was to carve her own way through the world , sword in hand . Even in her early childhood she gave many proofs ... wishes ; con- sequently , his children were fed on simple , almost a parsi- monious diet , and were taught to sit ...
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... wish for any much - coveted plaything by repeated requests . The father's strictness of discipline went so far as to induce him to refuse many of the children's reasonable requests , in or- nly der , as he said , to accustom them to ...
... wish for any much - coveted plaything by repeated requests . The father's strictness of discipline went so far as to induce him to refuse many of the children's reasonable requests , in or- nly der , as he said , to accustom them to ...
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... , and gave many opportunities for the expression of ardent wishes that the Austrian ban- ners might triumph . When Ida , looking from the window , A BIOGRAPHY OF IDA PFEIFFER . xiii attempt saw her xii A BIOGRAPHY OF IDA PFEIFFER .
... , and gave many opportunities for the expression of ardent wishes that the Austrian ban- ners might triumph . When Ida , looking from the window , A BIOGRAPHY OF IDA PFEIFFER . xiii attempt saw her xii A BIOGRAPHY OF IDA PFEIFFER .
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... wish , and never so happy as when he appeared satisfied with my endeavors . He conducted my entire education ; and though it cost me some tears to give up my youthful visions , and busy my- self with pursuits I had looked upon with ...
... wish , and never so happy as when he appeared satisfied with my endeavors . He conducted my entire education ; and though it cost me some tears to give up my youthful visions , and busy my- self with pursuits I had looked upon with ...
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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...