A REMARKABLE WOMAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1957, 6 April 1885, Page 2

A REMARKABLE WOMAN.

Mrs Alioo'Jo Plongeon, now in New Orleans, is remarkable as a scientist and linguist. Epic has accompanied her husband in all his travels, and is a.demoted and learned aichtsoligiafc. She is an English-woman, quite young, with a spintuelle rather than a handsome face. During their journeys in Yucatan forests, Mrs Le Plongeon always wore a bloomer costume, and carried her rifle and revolver. Slio is i 3 a dead shot, and expert hunter and horsewoman, and can cook as well as she can talk, write, ortake photographs. She is in manner shy, modest, but with that admirable selt'-possesion without which the charms of tho most charming woman are imperilled. At the time Dr Le Plongeon and his wife discovered the'buried statue of Chaacmal, now in the inuseuiii of the city of Mexico, their Indian guides revolted, being superstitious, and did not want the statue removed from its hiding place. Mrs Le Plongeon, with rifle and revolver, kept the Indians at bay until help could be summoned. This lady is the correspondent of "Tho Field and Country Gentleman," and a constant contributor of tho' Scientific American,'and to several scientific publications generally. She is agraceful speaker.—New Orleans Picayune.