Shannan’s Reviews > Wanderlust: The Amazing Ida Pfeiffer, the First Female Tourist > Status Update

the severest toils and hardships are never sufficient to spoil my enjoyment of a journey; but to have to do with people of this sort is beyond my patience. I was incomparably more comfortable among the cannibals of Sumatra than amongst the soi-disant Christian rabble. Alas! that I should so often have to declare that some of the worst people I have ever met with have been called Christians
-Peru

“After forty days sailing, they ran through the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java and past the pointed volcanic island of Krakatoa which would erupt with such world- shattering violence thirty-two years later”
Love the frequent foreshadowing of places visited before events we know them for.