PFEIFFER, Ina (née REvErt), a celebrated female traveler, was b. at Vienna, Oct_ 15, 1797, and from her earliest years showed a resolute and fearless, hut not unfeminine disposition. Iu 1820 she married an advocate, named Pfeiffer, from whom she was obliged to obtain a separation, after she had borne him two sous, Oscar and Alfred, whose education devolved on herself. When she had settled them in life, and was free to act as she pleased, she at once proceeded to gratify, at the age of 45, her long-cherished inclination for a life of travel and adventure. Her first expedition was to the Holy Land. She left Vienna in Mar., 1842, and returned in December of the same year, having traversed, alone and without European and Asiatic 'Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt. She published an account of her eastern rambles in the following year (Heise einer Wie ?Will in das Land), which, like all her other works, has gone through many tions, and been translated into French and English. In 1845 she visited northern Europe —Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and Iceland—and recorded her impressions in her Reim nack Clem Skandinassisch, Norden end der lima Island (2 vols., 1846). But these which would have satisfied most women, were but little excursions in the eyes of this insatiable nomad, and only served to whet her appetite for something vaster. She resolved on a voyage round the world,-and on June 28, 1846, sailed from Hamburg in a Danish brig for Brazil. Her descriptions of the scenery of that country and of the inhabitmits—lioth native Indians and Brazilians—are exceedingly interesting, She then sailed round cape Horn to Chile, and thence, after some time, across the Pacific to Ota heite, China, and Calcutta; crossed the Indian peninsula to Bombay, whence she took ship fur the Persian gulf,. anded at Bassora, traversed a great part of western Asia,
southern Russia. and Greece, and re-entered Vienna Nov. 4, 1848. Two years later she• published a „narrative of her travels and adventures, entitled Eine Frauenfahrt urn die Welt (Vienna, 1850, 3 vols.). As a small recognition of her services, and of her singular energy, fortitude, and perseverance of her character, the Austrian government granted Mine. Pfeiffer a sum of £100. She now determined to go round the world again, but by a different route. Proceeding to England, she, in May, 1851, took ship for Sara wak, rounding the cape of Good Hope, penetrated alone to the heart of Borneo, visited Java and Sumatra, lived for a time with some cannibal tribes, and sailed from the Moluccas to California, thence to Peru, scaled the peaks of Chimborazo and Cotopaxi, made a run through the principal of the United States, and returned to London in 1854. This second voyage, signalized by several scientific observations, is described in Mane Zweite lVeltreise (Vien., 183G). But the more she traveled, the fiercer became her hunger for movement. In Sept., 1856, she set out on what was to be her last expedition— namely, to Madagascar. After terrible hardships, she got away, and mine home to Vienna—to die. Her death took place Oct. 28:1858.