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 Copy Share Image
The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors.… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
If Japanese tea 'stands,' it acquires a coarse bitterness and an unwholesome astringency. Milk and sugar are not used. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north,… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars,… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
An American store is generally a very extensive apartment, handsomely decorated, the roof frequently supported on marble pillars. The owner or clerk is seen… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist. — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Malacca is such a rest after the crowds of Japan and the noisy hurry of China! Its endless afternoon remains unbroken except by the… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
