The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer: Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar : with an Autobiographical Memoir of the Author |
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... native country , where he had , however , only passed the earliest years of his life . But fortune would nowhere smile upon him , and bitter poverty knocked at the door of the family . " Heaven only knows what I suffered during eighteen ...
... native country , where he had , however , only passed the earliest years of his life . But fortune would nowhere smile upon him , and bitter poverty knocked at the door of the family . " Heaven only knows what I suffered during eighteen ...
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... native city by way of Travemûnde , Hamburg , and Berlin , arriving in Vienna on the 4th of October , 1845 , after an ab- sence of six months . The journal of this second voyage appeared under the title , " Voyage to the Scandinavian ...
... native city by way of Travemûnde , Hamburg , and Berlin , arriving in Vienna on the 4th of October , 1845 , after an ab- sence of six months . The journal of this second voyage appeared under the title , " Voyage to the Scandinavian ...
Page xxviii
... natives of the Celestial Empire . The visitor found herself in danger of being insulted by the mob , and accordingly turned her back on the fortunate country , paid a short visit to Singapore , and proceeded to Ceylon , landing there in ...
... natives of the Celestial Empire . The visitor found herself in danger of being insulted by the mob , and accordingly turned her back on the fortunate country , paid a short visit to Singapore , and proceeded to Ceylon , landing there in ...
Page xxx
... native grandees also . This she often afterward publicly acknowledged , with the warmest thanks . On the 8th of July , 1852 , her journey to Sumatra began ; and this she has declared to be the most interesting of all her undertakings ...
... native grandees also . This she often afterward publicly acknowledged , with the warmest thanks . On the 8th of July , 1852 , her journey to Sumatra began ; and this she has declared to be the most interesting of all her undertakings ...
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... native land , where he welcomed me in the heartiest manner , and introduced me at once to his family circle . I staid in Holland till the 2d of July , and had an oppor- tunity of traveling through the greater part of this interest- ing ...
... native land , where he welcomed me in the heartiest manner , and introduced me at once to his family circle . I staid in Holland till the 2d of July , and had an oppor- tunity of traveling through the greater part of this interest- ing ...
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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...