The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer: Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar : with an Autobiographical Memoir of the Author |
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... obliged to go through it , for it was my mother's last wish . Filial duty induced me to leave my dear mother's journal as little altered as possible . In thus giving this last work of my mother to the world , I trust that our kind ...
... obliged to go through it , for it was my mother's last wish . Filial duty induced me to leave my dear mother's journal as little altered as possible . In thus giving this last work of my mother to the world , I trust that our kind ...
Page xiv
... obliged to adopt different manners and occupations , and a new system of life . " How awkward and clumsy I was at first ! " she exclaims , in her diary ; " how ridiculous I must have looked in my long skirts , jumping and racing about ...
... obliged to adopt different manners and occupations , and a new system of life . " How awkward and clumsy I was at first ! " she exclaims , in her diary ; " how ridiculous I must have looked in my long skirts , jumping and racing about ...
Page xxiv
... obliged to provide , not only for my children , but some- times for my husband also . As regarded money , I was de- termined to practice the most rigid economy . Privation and discomfort had no terrors for me . I had endured them long ...
... obliged to provide , not only for my children , but some- times for my husband also . As regarded money , I was de- termined to practice the most rigid economy . Privation and discomfort had no terrors for me . I had endured them long ...
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... obliged to be very careful in their intercourse with her ; but with plain , unpre- tending people she never uttered a word that could hurt or offend . Hating all pretension , and all boastful self - assertion , she showed herself ...
... obliged to be very careful in their intercourse with her ; but with plain , unpre- tending people she never uttered a word that could hurt or offend . Hating all pretension , and all boastful self - assertion , she showed herself ...
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... obliging as to give me a free pass , but even placed a cab- in at my disposal , and provided board and every comfort for me . The short distance ( about thirty German miles ) from Vi- enna to Linz can be accomplished in twenty - one ...
... obliging as to give me a free pass , but even placed a cab- in at my disposal , and provided board and every comfort for me . The short distance ( about thirty German miles ) from Vi- enna to Linz can be accomplished in twenty - one ...
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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...