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[Illustration: MADAME IDA PFEIFFER.]




                                  THE

                             LAST TRAVELS

                                  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 h