The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer: Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar : with an Autobiographical Memoir of the Author |
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... death of my beloved mother . Shortly before her decease she had expressed the 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 ...
... death of my beloved mother . Shortly before her decease she had expressed the 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 ...
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... death . Thus the whole career of the late adventurous pilgrim , with particular reference to the latest circumstances of her checkered life , namely , her in- teresting and eventful voyage to Madagascar , will be placed A 2 A BIOGRAPHY ...
... death . Thus the whole career of the late adventurous pilgrim , with particular reference to the latest circumstances of her checkered life , namely , her in- teresting and eventful voyage to Madagascar , will be placed A 2 A BIOGRAPHY ...
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... watched the child's every movement with suspicion and alarm , and caused her daugh- ter to spend many a bitter hour , merely from an exagger- ated notion of duty . A few months after her father's death the first attempt.
... watched the child's every movement with suspicion and alarm , and caused her daugh- ter to spend many a bitter hour , merely from an exagger- ated notion of duty . A few months after her father's death the first attempt.
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... death the first attempt was made to deprive the girl of the attire she had hitherto worn , and substituted petticoats for their masculine equiv- alents . Little Ida , then ten years old , was so indignant at this measure that she ...
... death the first attempt was made to deprive the girl of the attire she had hitherto worn , and substituted petticoats for their masculine equiv- alents . Little Ida , then ten years old , was so indignant at this measure that she ...
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... death . When by chance she heard from an indiscreetly- communicative nurse that her dissolution was daily expect- ed , this intelligence produced such a quieting effect that she sank into a deep slumber , and the crisis of her disease ...
... death . When by chance she heard from an indiscreetly- communicative nurse that her dissolution was daily expect- ed , this intelligence produced such a quieting effect that she sank into a deep slumber , and the crisis of her disease ...
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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...