MADAME IDA PFEIFFER.
THE
L A S T T R A V E L S
OF
IDA PFEIFFER:
INCLUSIVE OF A VISIT TO MADAGASCAR.
WITH
An Autobiographical Memoir of the Author.
TRANSLATED BY H. W. DULCKEN.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1861.
PREFACE.
It was at Buenos Ayres that I received the intelligence of the death of my beloved mother. Shortly before her decease she had expressed the wish that I should arrange and prepare for publication the papers she left concerning her last voyage to Madagascar. The dangerous illness which befell her in the Mauritius immediately after she had left Madagascar, and which, in spite of the most careful medical attention, and the kindest nursing on the part of her friends, proved fatal, prevented her from doing this herself.