FOR the benefit of other lady travellers, I wish to explain that my “Hawaiian riding dress” is the “American Lady's Mountain Dress,” a half-fitting jacket, a skirt reaching to the ankles, and full Turkish trousers gathered into frills falling over the boots, — a thoroughly serviceable and feminine costume for mountaineering and other rough travelling, as in the Alps or any other part of the world. I add this explanation to the prefatory note, together with a rough sketch of the costume[1], in consequence of an erroneous statement[2] in the Times of November 22d.
I.L.B.
November 27, 1879.
See Title-page.
" She donned masculine habiliments for greater convenience. "