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A WOMAN’S
JOURNEY ROUND
THE WORLD
By
IDA PFEIFFER
First published in 1850
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Contents
CHAPTER I THE VOYAGE TO THE BRAZILS
CHAPTER II ARRIVAL AND SOJOURN IN RIO JANEIRO
CHAPTER III EXCURSIONS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF RIO JANEIRO
CHAPTER IV JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE BRAZILS
CHAPTER V THE VOYAGE ROUND CAPE HORN
CHAPTER VI ARRIVAL AND RESIDENCE IN VALPARAISO
CHAPTER VII THE VOYAGE FROM VALPARAISO TO CANTON VIA TAHITI
CHAPTER IX THE EAST INDIES—SINGAPORE
CHAPTER X THE EAST INDIES—CEYLON
CHAPTER XI MADRAS AND CALCUTTA
CHAPTER XIII ALLAHABAD, AGRA, AND DELHI
CHAPTER XIV JOURNEY FROM DELHI TO BOMBAY
CHAPTER XV JOURNEY FROM DELHI TO BOMBAY CONTINUED
CHAPTER XVI CONTINUATION OF JOURNEY AND SOJOURN
CHAPTER XVII FROM BOMBAY TO BAGHDAD
CHAPTER XVIII MESOPOTAMIA, BAGHDAD, AND BABYLON
CHAPTER XXII ASIATIC RUSSIA—ARMENIA, GEORGIA, AND MINGRELIA
CHAPTER XXIV CONSTANTINOPLE AND ATHENS
Ida Pfeiffer
A German traveller, born in Vienna, Oct. 15, 1797, died there, Oct. 27, 1858. Her maiden name was Reyer.
The extended journeys through which she became celebrated did not begin until she reached the age of 44, when, having been for some years separated from her husband, her two sons being established in life, and a sufficient sum having accumulated from her careful savings, she gratified her long cherished desire for travel by making a journey to Palestine in 1842, returning through Italy during the same year. In 1845 she visited Norway, Lapland, and Iceland.
In June, 1846, she sailed from Hamburg on a voyage round the world, in company with Count Berchthold, from whom she subsequently parted. Disappointed in an attempt to cross South America, she continued her journey from Rio de Janeiro by water, touching at various points, crossing from Valparaiso to Macao, and stopping at Tahiti. From China she went to Calcutta, and thence across India and Persia, and completed her journey by visiting the Black sea, Turkey, and Greece.
Aided by the Austrian government, she again embarked in the spring of 1851, and from London proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope, intending to visit the interior of Africa; but, deterred by the great cost of the undertaking, she went on to