About September,
she evinced a keen anxiety to behold her home once more,--evidently
having arrived at a conviction that her end was near. She was carefully
conveyed to Vienna, and received into the house of her brother, Charles
Reyer; where, at first, the influence of her native air had an
invigorating effect. This gave way after a week or two, and her illness
returned with augmented force. During the last days of her life, opiates
were administered to relieve her sufferings; and in the night between the
27th and 28th of October she passed away peacefully, and apparently
without pain,--leaving behind her the memory of a woman of matchless
intrepidity, surprising energy, and heroic fixity of purpose.
NOTES.
{105} Since Madame Pfeiffer's time this mode of self-torture has been
prohibited by the British Government.
{197} That is, the "City of a Thousand Towns."
{204} We give Madame Pfeiffer's account, as an illustration of the old
ways of Madagascar society. But the poison-ordeal has of late been
abandoned, owing to Christian influence.
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