Isabella Lucy Bird:

Mrs. Bishop's tent on her ride amongst the Bakhtiari Lurs - 1890
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"In the middle of the 19th century they could put 20,000 well-equipped horsemen into the field..."
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Isabella Bird and two natives on elephant, with
other elephants, in swamp, in Perak, Malaya - 1883
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My home in the Rocky Mountains
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Collected Travel Writings of Isabella Bird