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Автор: Ida Pfeiffer
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      A WOMAN’S

      JOURNEY ROUND

      THE WORLD

       By

      IDA PFEIFFER

       First published in 1850

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      Contents

       Ida Pfeiffer

       PREFACE

      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 VIII CHINA

      CHAPTER IX THE EAST INDIES—SINGAPORE

      CHAPTER X THE EAST INDIES—CEYLON

      CHAPTER XI MADRAS AND CALCUTTA

      CHAPTER XII BENARES

      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 XIX MÓSUL AND NINEVEH

      CHAPTER XX PERSIA

      CHAPTER XXI SOJOURN IN TEBRIS

      CHAPTER XXII ASIATIC RUSSIA—ARMENIA, GEORGIA, AND MINGRELIA

      CHAPTER XXIII EUROPEAN RUSSIA

      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