Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-12-01
Death of Madame Ida Pfeifer, the
Great Traveller.

return from the Mauritius, which she had
visited last spring. Shewas born in Wen
ma, 1877, and married to DR.. Pfeifier, OF
Lernberg, in 1920, but her husband and
two sons dying, she set out on iourney
toJerusalem, after which she published
an account of her pilgri mage. She next
explored northern Europe, clear up to Ice
land then she went to Brazil, round cape
Horn, to Otaheite, China, Japan, and
much of Asia. Resting awhile, she pub.
Iished another book and left for the cape
OF Good Hope and the Hottentot country.
She carried her explorations some two
hundred miles into the interior, living a.
mong the savages on terms of amity, and
enjoying excellent opportunities forobser.
yatlon. Returning to the cape she sailed
for Singapore went thence to Borneo,
where she resided for month among the
fierce tribe of the Dyal<s; then went over
the mountains to visit Sungau and Ian
dek, and after several visits to the settle
ments, bent her steps towards Java, where
she received hospitable entertainment -
went thence to Summarize, lived another
month among tribe of Caninbals, and
came away entire, although they proposed
to eat her, and we're only distuaded there
from, she AYERS, by her representations
that she was old and necessarily very
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were all visited 10y her, and the Sultan OF
Ternata afforded her all possible facilities
for exploring his particular island The
lady rode through his dominions drawn
10y twenty man power" as she describes
it. for his majesty owned no beasts of bur-
den except men. Afterwards she went to
the Celebes, and having finished her sight
seeing there, returned to Java and en-
barked at Batavia for San Francisco. The
voyage was pleasant and Madame Pfeifier
reached California in September 1853. She
visited the wet diggings," examined the
quartz formations, wentup to the Crescent
city, lived among the Indians in Oregon,
ran down to Acapulco, and viewed the
mines of quicksilver at San Jose, and then
went down the coast to Lima, and made
the tour Of the Peruvian mines. Thence
she went to Guayakil, and thence to Qui-
to, and in this stage of the journey she
suffered numerous perils and hardships,
the rainy season having set in, and the
roads rendered nearly impossible. Once
she fell overheard from a canoe, and owed
her life to to her skill in swimming. Qui-
to offered no temptations to detain her,
and after q short visit she returned to Qua
yakil, and departed thence to Panama,
Crossing the lsthmus to Aspnwall, she
took a steamer passage toNew Orleans,and
then began her trip through the United
States, which ended in this city, in 1854,
exactly four years ago. From New Or.
leans she went to Arkansas, thence up
the Mississippi to st. Louis, thence to the
falls of st. Antony ; thence by way Of Ga
lena, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Sault St.
Marie, to lake Superior; thence 10y way of
Quebec and Montreal to New YORK, arri-
wing here in September, 1854. Return
ing to London at the close of 1854, she
prepared her notes of this extended tour
for publication, and the narrative is sim
pie and interesting. Her last journey was
undertaken about year ago, She revis-
tied Africa and attempted to explore Mad
agascar, but was prevented from the full
filment of that part of her plan by the
watchful jealousy Of the Queen, who sub
jected her to sundry indignities, and final
ly expelled her from the territory.
Madame Pfeifler with all her roaming
propensities, was not coarse or bold wo-
man. In person she was below the mid.
die size, had dark hair and brilliant eyes,
was always cad with extreme plainness,
and in manner was quiet and reserved In
a letter written to friend few years O.
! GO, she describes herself: 81 smile, (she
says when ! think of the many who,
knowing me only through my travels, fan
cy that my character, manners, even my
figure and movements,a are more like those
ola man than a woman. How falsely do
they charge me! But you, you know me,
know chat those who expect to find me
six feet high, with a bold, imposing gait
and dagger and pistol in my belt, disco
yer in me the very reverse and that in
every day life I am palmer, quieter and
more reserved than thousands of my own
sex who have never left the seclusion of
their native villages.
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