But they
have been so frequently described, that we may pass them here with this
slight reference.
From Corinth our traveller crossed to Corfu, and from Corfu ascended the
Adriatic to Trieste. A day or two afterwards she was received by her
friends at Vienna,--having accomplished the most extraordinary journey
ever undertaken by a woman, and made the complete circuit of the world.
In the most remarkable scenes, and in the most critical positions, she
had preserved a composure, a calmness of courage, and a simplicity of
conduct, that must always command our admiration.
CHAPTER III.--NORTHWARD.
In giving to the world a narrative of her journey to Iceland, and her
wanderings through Norway and Sweden, Madame Pfeiffer anticipated certain
objections that would be advanced by the over-refined. "Another journey
!" she supposed them to exclaim; "and that to regions far more likely to
repel than attract the general traveller! What object could this woman
have had in visiting them, but a desire to excite our astonishment and
raise our curiosity? We might have been induced to pardon her pilgrimage
to the Holy Land, though it was sufficiently hazardous for a solitary
woman, because it was prompted, perhaps, by her religious feelings,--and
incredible things, as we all know, are frequently accomplished under such
an impulse.
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