The Late Madame Ida Pfeiffer, 1858. Engraving after a painting by Miss Emily Marie Schmäck, a relative. 'The record of [Madame Pfeiffer's] adventurous career reads like a story in the Arabian 1842 Turkey, Palestine, and proceeded, via Cape Horn, to Chili, and thence to She next reached to Calcutta, a perilous journey to Mosul, travelling, as she described it, like the poorest continued her journey through Persia, and, returning homewards by way of Russia, Constantinople, and Athens, reached
The Late Madame Ida Pfeiffer, 1858. Engraving after a painting by Miss Emily Marie Schmäck, a relative. 'The record of [Madame Pfeiffer's] adventurous career reads like a story in the Arabian 1842 Turkey, Palestine, and proceeded, via Cape Horn, to Chili, and thence to She next reached to Calcutta, a perilous journey to Mosul, travelling, as she described it, like the poorest continued her journey through Persia, and, returning homewards by way of Russia, Constantinople, and Athens, reached Vienna in November, 1852 she was at Sarawak, whence she penetrated into the interior of [In] Java and went among the cannibal tribe of the Batacks, hitherto generally avoided by Europeans, but whose fierce nature her calm and quiet bearing subdued, and she appears even to have won their respect, since none but a superhuman being, they asserted, could have ventured amongst not a scientific Pfeiffer has done much to advance the cause of was able to take bearings and distances, to make meteorological observations, and has contributed largely to the science of entomology'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.
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