The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer: Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar : with an Autobiographical Memoir of the Author |
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... ship to sail away into the great , mysterious , boundless ocean . Her duty toward her children alone restrained her ; and she felt happy when she had quitted Trieste , and miles of mountain and plain intervened between the sea and ...
... ship to sail away into the great , mysterious , boundless ocean . Her duty toward her children alone restrained her ; and she felt happy when she had quitted Trieste , and miles of mountain and plain intervened between the sea and ...
Page xxvii
... ship was a full month in making its way from Hamburg through the English Channel — as long a time as it required to get from thence to the equator . On the 16th of September the har- bor of Rio Janeiro was reached . From that port Ida ...
... ship was a full month in making its way from Hamburg through the English Channel — as long a time as it required to get from thence to the equator . On the 16th of September the har- bor of Rio Janeiro was reached . From that port Ida ...
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... ship , we loitered for two whole days in accomplishing this little distance of nineteen German miles . The rain fortunately ceased a few miles from Salzburg , and , moreover , the scenery is very fine to within four miles of Munich ...
... ship , we loitered for two whole days in accomplishing this little distance of nineteen German miles . The rain fortunately ceased a few miles from Salzburg , and , moreover , the scenery is very fine to within four miles of Munich ...
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... a few years ago great ships sailed , and where the fisherman spread his nets , thousands of cows now graze , and beauteous fields and meadows smile with verdure ; nay , scattered houses , already fast increasing , will soon probably.
... a few years ago great ships sailed , and where the fisherman spread his nets , thousands of cows now graze , and beauteous fields and meadows smile with verdure ; nay , scattered houses , already fast increasing , will soon probably.
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... ship - building . They still show the wooden hut where he dwelt , and this is kept in the same condition in which the great emperor left it . It consists of two plain little rooms with a few wooden chairs and tables . To de- fend it ...
... ship - building . They still show the wooden hut where he dwelt , and this is kept in the same condition in which the great emperor left it . It consists of two plain little rooms with a few wooden chairs and tables . To de- fend it ...
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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...