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Isabella Bird

English Explorer

Born: Oct 15, 1831

Died: Oct 7, 1904

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Related authors: George Vancouver Henry Hudson Hudson Stuck Humphrey Gilbert Isabelle Eberhardt Richard Francis Burton Walter Raleigh William Adams

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away. Isabella Bird

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles. Isabella Bird

Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs. Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England. Isabella Bird

Fruit Seen Difficult States Find Thrown Highly Pigs Understand How Western Southern Prized American Grapes England Grown Damaged

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is contrary to the whole tenor of Christianity; and a system which lowers man as an intellectual and responsible being is no less morally than politically wrong. Isabella Bird

Day Man Christianity Apprenticeship Our Though System Responsible Morally More Tenor Wrong Mosaic Rendered Permitted Intellectual Contrary Than Politically Being Which Little Less Whole Slavery

Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars, the hotels, the waiting-rooms, the steamers, and even the stores, in crystal jugs or stone filters, and it is always iced. This may be either the result or the cause of the temperance of the people. Isabella Bird

People Water Result Cause Car Before Filters Visited Temperance Purity Never Perfection Abundance Beverage Hotels Crystal Always Provided America Stone May Stores Either Which Even Enjoyed

The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six parts and are so highly elaborate that the scribes who indite them are almost looked upon as litterateurs. Isabella Bird

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye. Isabella Bird

Great People Seen Beauty Single Nation Please Eye Atheists Temples Superstitions Buddhists Sincere Male Tramp China Japan Agnostic Many Among Exquisite Extended Thing Slaves Preserve

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water. Isabella Bird

Water Made Nothing Foot Puts Track Another Always His Pits Hole Which Mud Series Filled Elephant

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression. Isabella Bird

Life Speak Will Think Unless Bad Abode Some About Only Beasts He Taken Tiger Because Tigers Souls Queer Up Departed Human Human Beings Places Them Certain Aggression Notions Reason Who Many Beings

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