A WANDERING ENGLISHWOMAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3217, 21 October 1881, Page 4

A WANDERING ENGLISHWOMAN.

Miss Marianne North, an English lady, daughter of the late Frederick North, M.P., and sister-in-law of John Addington Symonds, may be said to have put a garland around the earth, if not a girdle. For the last ten or fifteen years she has been travelling quite alone all over the world, everywhere painting its rare trees and flowers with a bit of landscape to show their habitat. Bearing credentials from the Secretary of Foreign Affairs in London, the Government houses in all the colonies hare been open to her and every facility afforded for the prosecution of her object in the way of guides, escorts, and proyision for her personal comfort. She has climbed mountains been rowed down strange rivers or floated down, supported by inflated skins, and been driven through wUd places in camel waggons,

guarded by an oscort of natives. During these travels Miss North has made more than 600 studies of trees and plants (some of which hav3 been before unknown even to the botantisl), and each picture containing a bit of landscape showing the habitat of the plant. This valuable collection she has presented to the Kew Gardens, where she has herself built a gallery for them. Miss North has just reached New York, via California, Arizona, New Mexico, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Borneo. In the last named island she was the guest of Rajah Brooke, nephew and successor of the late Kajah, Sir James Brooke, whose remarkable career forms such a romantic episode in history.