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Leaving Vienna in 1856, Ida Pfeiffer, a seasoned lone traveller in her fifties, eventually arrived in Madagascar in 1857 after a short stay in Mauritius. Following her landing in Tamatave, she proceded to Tananarive where she gained an audience with the Queen of Madagascar. An attempted coup against the latter, fomented by outsiders and English missionaries, led to the massacre of Christian converts and the arrest of Ida Pfeiffer. She was eventually expelled from the country after a long ordeal and died soon after her return to Austria in 1858. |