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IDA PFEIFFER.

huu unoOtrusiVe nttIe woman, VINO nau roauet
alone over nearly oil the earth, took New York il
her course on her fourth grand tour Of observa
ton. She vas received with q cordial welcome,
held iecees after the manner Of distin guiehcd per-
sonages, and for the space Of a month was the OBJ
5eot Of marked attentions and unbounded %cieilities'
Her stay was limited to o month or two, and her
wanderings were then resumed. The lady vas
Madame Ida Pfeifer. the famous traveller. She
expired at Vienna on the twenty,seyenth u!timo,
after a long illness, induced by privations and
~hardships endured during q toilsome journey in
Madagascar. Her age was sixty one.
MADAME Pfeifer, apparently a delicate woman,
devoted her life to journeying IN all parts Of the
world, often under circumstances which would
have tried the fortitude Of strong men. She ex-
plored unknown localities, visited savage tribes,
scaled mountains, waded breast deep through tor
rents, saw the wonders of the East, descended in
10 the mines Of Peru, sat among the ruins of Hin.
doc temples, and shared the rude fare of the Cal
ifornia Indians, received marked attentions from
the Sultan, and was expelled from the Island Of
Madagascar by the queen of that region saw, in
fact, nearly all that is worth seeing ia the world.
and has furnished a series of interesting records
of her experience. She was born in Vienna in
l|Sf, was married IN lCZU TO Dr, u, 1IelHeI,
of Lernberg, and for several years after that event
devoted herself to the care Of her family. The
death of her husband and the settlement Of her
children two sons) left her at liberty to follow her
Instinct for sightseeing, and from her fortieth
year until q few months before her death she was
C traveller. Her first enterprise was a pilgrimage
to Jerusalem, "a spot she says, 'on which she
always felt an intense desire to tread From
Jerusalem she went to Nazareth and Beirut, and,
on returning to Vienna, published her first work,
entitled, The Travels Of a Vienna Lady to the
Holy Land This tour was shortened by the ex.
haustion OF her finances, and was relinquished
with great reluctance. But the lady, favored by
the success Of her work, soon equipped herself for
another journey. The second one was an e~xplora'
ton of Northern Europe. Norway, Sweden, Den.
mark. and Iceland were visited by her in turn, and
the results of her observations were embodied in
a volume published at Pesth in 1916. Madame
Pfeifer had now seen the East and the North
her works met a ready sale her passion for trav'
ell had grown and she resolved 20 undertake a
more extensive exploration. In May, lS46, she
again quilted her home in Vienna, embarked for
Rio Janeiro, arrived at that port in September,
and travelled through the Brazils went round
Cape Horn, and landed in Chill, where she re.
NAMED o sufficient period to know the habits OF
the Chilians then made q flying trip to Otaheite,
and afterwards went on to China, taking japan in
her way, and proceeding through Asia visited
Ceylon, and ended her tour Of the world by a care.
ful examination Of the manners, customs, tradi,
tions, religion, and natural wonders of the further
and nearer India. After two years absence, she
returned a third time to Vienna. tfrt
1.-THE narrative Of this journey is intensely in
t~erestiug. During the whole tour, Madame PfeiH-
er was uuaccompanied, except by her guides, but
always received kind treatment-her defenceless
condition being her best protection. She relates
thai she suffered greatly in dangerous regions, that
she knew the extremes of hunger and thirst, that
life was often in peril, but that she uniformly
met kindly usage-was received into the tents OF
abe women among the savage tribes-and that in
no instance was she molested as she journeyed
about, staff in hand. Her extraordinary tact and
power Of will carried her safely through. The
success of this soon prompted Madame Pfeiffer &c
undertake another. Having remained in Vienna
barely three years, she departed. for the fourth
time, vending her way to the Cape of Good Hope
She sailed from London for that point on thu
twenty-second Of May. 1851, and arrived at the
Cape on the eleventh of August following. The
Cape presented a few objects Of interest, and she
soon left it. Penetrating into the country Of the
lIottentots, she carried her explorations some two
hundred miles into the interior, living among the
savages on .erms of amity and enjoying excellent
opportunities for observation. Returning to the
Cape, she sailed for Singapore, went thence tc
Borneo. where she resided for a month among The
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mountains to visit Sungau and Landek, and aftel
a several visit to the settlements, bent her step
toward Java, where she received hospitable enter
tainment went thence to S~umatra, lived anothe
month among q tribe of cannibals, and came ava
entire, although they proposed to eat her, an
were only dissua1ed therefrom, she AYERS, by he
representation that she was old and necessaril
tough. The islaLds Of the Archipelago were IA
visited by her, and the Sultan of Ternata afforde
her all possible facilities for exploring his particl
lar island. The lady rode thr ough his dominion
in a conveyance drawn by 'twentv.man pow5r
as she describes it, for his Majesty owned I
beasts of burden, except men. Afterwards, ST.
went to the Celebes, and, having finished hc
sight seeing there, returned to Java, and embarl
ed at Batavia for San Francisco. The voyage WI
pleasant, and Madame pfsifer reached Oaliforni
in September, 1853. She visited the wet "di
gings,' examined the quartz formations went up
Crescent City, lived among the Indians in Oregon
ran down to Acapulco and viewed the mines
quicksilver at San Jose, and then went down Ii
coast TO Lima, and made the tour Of the Peruvia
mines. Thence she went to Guayaquil, an
thence to Onto, and in tais stage of The joorne
suffered numerous perils and hArdships-;he rain
season having set in, and the roads rendered nea
ly impossible. Once she fell overheard from
a canoe, and owed her life to her skill In swis
ming. Quito offered no temptations to detain he
and after a short visit che returned to Guayaau
and departed theoee for Panama. Crossing Il
Isthmus to Asrinwall, she took a steamer passa,
for New Orleans, and then began her trip throul
the United States. which ended ia this city
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