The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer: Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar : with an Autobiographical Memoir of the Author |
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... allowed the girl to wear boy's clothes , so that little Ida looked with sovereign con- tempt upon dolls and toy saucepans , and would only play with drums , swords , guns , and similar playthings . Her fa- ther seems to have looked with ...
... allowed the girl to wear boy's clothes , so that little Ida looked with sovereign con- tempt upon dolls and toy saucepans , and would only play with drums , swords , guns , and similar playthings . Her fa- ther seems to have looked with ...
Page xvii
... allowed to inform T- of every thing . My mother at last made this concession , and I wrote a long letter to T , acquainting him with every thing , and begging him not to believe any thing he heard concerning me from other people . I ...
... allowed to inform T- of every thing . My mother at last made this concession , and I wrote a long letter to T , acquainting him with every thing , and begging him not to believe any thing he heard concerning me from other people . I ...
Page xix
... allowed to acquaint Dr. Pfeiffer with the real state of her affections . This she did in a long letter , in which she concealed nothing from her suitor , ev- idently indulging the hope that he would abandon his pur- suit of her ; but Dr ...
... allowed to acquaint Dr. Pfeiffer with the real state of her affections . This she did in a long letter , in which she concealed nothing from her suitor , ev- idently indulging the hope that he would abandon his pur- suit of her ; but Dr ...
Page xxxiv
... allowed that she pos- sessed the qualities with which success is achieved in the world . The value of these gifts was heightened in Ida Pfeiffer by a strict regard for truth and strong sense of con- scientious responsibility , and a ...
... allowed that she pos- sessed the qualities with which success is achieved in the world . The value of these gifts was heightened in Ida Pfeiffer by a strict regard for truth and strong sense of con- scientious responsibility , and a ...
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... allowed to pursue her jour- ney where a man would assuredly not have been suffered to advance . Her communications , consequently , have oft- en the merit of containing entirely new facts in geography and ethnology , or of correcting ...
... allowed to pursue her jour- ney where a man would assuredly not have been suffered to advance . Her communications , consequently , have oft- en the merit of containing entirely new facts in geography and ethnology , or of correcting ...
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Page 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...