Los Angeles herald., 1892-10-23
Either by Themselves or with Their Hus-
bands They Have Girdled the Earth
and Achieved Fame as Explorers--An
American Woman Leads.
It has often been asserted by physicians
that women can stand pain much better
than men, and it seems that to this might
be added the statement that some of them
IDA pFEIFFER.
MRS. NORMAN.

MRS. NORMAN. IDA PFEIFFEk.
at least-in fact all who have been put to
the test-are the equals of the sterner sex
in combating the trials and privations of
travel and exploration.
Ida Pfeiffer, the Viennese globe trotter,
''went it alone''--that is, she waited until
she had buried her husband and estab-
lished her sons in business, and then
started out to view the wonderful sights
of this wonderful world of ours. She was
nearly fifty years old when she began her
solitary journeyings, yet she girdled the
earth twice, went to spots where men had
never dared to set foot, hobnobbed with
savages and sovereigns, and left an account
of her experiences that is one of the most
interesting tales of travel that reader can
find. s4sr
Another woman of more recent date than
Ida Pfeiffer has also "journeyed far,
strange countries for to see." She was an
English maiden of pluck and peculiar
views, and her name was Menie Muriel
Dowie. While scarcely out Of her teens
she went to the Carpathians clad in mems
clothes and thoroughly explored that al
most inaccessible and peculiarly inhospita-
BILE region. The people, remarkable TO
note, treated her with great courtesy and
afforded her all the facilities their poverty
would allow.
They even went so far as to set guards
about--at a proper distance Of course
whenever she desired to bathe in a noun
tain stream, SO that no Peeping Tom could
disturb her ablutions. She returned to
London, wrote a book which is quite in
teresting, was interviewed, met a hand
some young journalist, fell in lcye, was
wooed and won, and now, as Mrs. Henry
Norman, her "heart's in che highlands"
literally, forit is there that she and her hus-
band are enjoying a prolonged honeymoon.
Speaking of honeymoons and explora-
tion it is well to record the fact that when
Florence Van Sass became the wife Of
Samuel White Baker in 1860 they took "A
bridal trip to Africa that lasted six years.
They wished to discover the sources of the
Nile, and located the lake now designated
as the Albert Nyanza. Returning to Eng
land, Mr.. Baker was knighted. and then
the adventurous couple resumed their
travels, visiting nearly every accessible
spot on the earth.
Annie Boyle Hore is another English
woman who has gained honorable repute
by accompanying her husband to danger
GUS and little known regions. For thir-
teen years Captain E. O. Hore looked after
certain interests of his government in cen
trail Africa. and wherever he went his wife
went with him. She developed splendid
abilities as traveller, and when they got
leave of absence and started for a visit home
last spring she stood the 800 miles tramp to
Zanzibar better than most of the natives.
But it is an American woman who has
"broken the record" for endurance and
capability under conditions that might
wear out men of stronger physique, but less
nerve. Reference is made to Mrs. Peary,
wife of Lieutenant Peary, who recently re-
turned from long continued and highly
satisfactory exploration of Greenland.
With the scientific and geographical de-
tails of that arduous task the newspapers
have familiarized us, but it is ofinterest to
set down the observations of the first white
woman tospend year in the arctic regions