Through regions by wild men and cannibals haunted,
Old Dame Ida Pfeiffer goes lone and undaunted;
But, bless you, the risk's not so great as it's reckon'd,
She's too plain for the first, and too tough for the second.

— James Hannay Characters and Criticisms (1865)

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