The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-15
FRAULEIN TIME.
Her Reported Murder In ACr,c,

m Her Reported Murder In Africa.
=, Inc London Daily Ne1os, commenting upon
ca cne reported murder of Fraulein Tinne the Afri
can traveller, observes:-
Africa has exacted another victim, another
sacrlnce to the fascinating but deadly mysteries
OI ner inner secret. News comes to lis from
Malta that the young Dutch lady Miss Time
whose name has been so long connected with ex-
ploratlons upon the Lyban continent, and with
voyages along its coast, has been murdered while
travelling in the interior beyond Trpol. The
schooner yacht in which this enterprising gentle
woman used to sail, with its crew of dark
skinned sailors and its gay fittings is well
known among the ports of North Africa The
lady was well versed in the ways and resources
ot desert Journeys and long, lonely expeditions
by land-speaking Arabic and some of the Negro
dialects with Huency, and in every way mis-
tress OF her exceptional vocation. Restless and
daring blood must run in her family; for she was
one OF household of explorers and we believe
that her sister was lost in the lands of tie Upper
Nile many years ago. In spite of her sex-like
Ida Pfeiffer--Miss Time was born discoyerer
and the allurement of Africa, which never leaves
the mind on which IL has once seized, possessed
her wholly.
"With regard to this last melancholy incideat,
our details are as yet too few to warrant specu-
lation upon the object of the Journey which the
courageous young lady was pursuing, or upon
the manner of her assassination. All that the
report states is, that Miss Time was on the road
between Ghoush and Mourzouk, with some of
her yachts crew and other attendants, when she
was treacherously murdered by her camel
drivers, who killed at the same time two of the
hapless ladys sailors. Mourzouk is city of
Fezzan, and the principal station on the road to
Central Africa by way of Mcshroo and Bilma.
Unless the other town mentioned be 'Ghirzah,
mispelled by the narrator of this assassination,
it is not plain whether Miss Time was to the
north or south of Mourzouk when she was
attacked and slaughtered. 1t may have been her
design to penetrate by this road to Timbuctoo:
for that a plan which she had cherished,
and there is a route to Lake Chad, and perhaps
to the upper waters of the Niger or Joliba, by
the tribes of the Tonariks.
'More probably Miss Time was only making
o journey into the interior of the Trpoli coun-
try; for we gather from the account that her
yacht was at the port of that name; and her
scene of the murder to investigate and punish
the crime--an errand likely to be futile, if the
unfortunate adventures had been to the south
of Mourzouk. Of course, people who travel in
these burning expanses of Africa-especially
when they are women-go at their own peril In
Europe the person of lady would be safe
enough; but among those black Moslems there
is no chivalrons feeling about the seX-the
tone of the Koran and the institution of
polygamy place it out of the question.
Even an Arab camel-driver, who is usually
as common scoundrel as can be found, would
think it disgraceful to belong to 'Kaflah' COM
manded by a girl; and if, as is most likely, Miss
Time displayed money or goods when she got
outside the range of the Tripoli Government
we can too easily comprehend how the tempta-
tion arose and was obeyed Coming just when
we are debating the reasons which keep DIR.
Livingstone so long away, the new incident has
particular elements of sadness; but, brave as
Miss Time was, she was but woman, and it is
far worse to have to do with these Tibbons and
SOudan people south of the Barbary coast than
with the agricultural negroes through whose
territories we hope the famous missionary is
now passing"