I therefore preferred retaining the simple costume, consisting of a kind of blouse and wide Turkish trousers, which I then wore.

The further I travelled, the more I became persuaded how rightly I had acted in not concealing my sex.

Every where I was treated with respect, and kindness and consideration were frequently shewn me merely because I was a woman.

On May 17th I embarked on board a steamboat belonging to the Austrian Lloyd.

It was called the Archduke John.
It was with a feeling of painful emotion that I stood on the deck, gazing with an air of abstraction at the preparations for the long voyage which were actively going on around me.