Public Ledger

Fraulein Tinne, the German.

From the New York Sun.

A cable dispatch published a few days since gave a report from Tripoli of the murder of Fraulein Tinne, the African explorer, and two of her attendants, by their own camel-drivers, while traveling on the Abirgoush road, between Murzuk and Ghat. The report of her death needs confirmation, but is not improbable.

Fraulein Tinne was a German lady of large fortune, who had been engaged for several years in explorations of Africa, undertaken at her own expense. When Speke and Grant were exploring the Nile, Miss Tinne, accompanied by her mother and her aunt, Baroness von Capellen, with a large number of servants, attempted to penetrate with their own steamer from Khartoum up the White Nile, in order to reach the two explorers, but, on account of sickness and the difficulty of ascending the rapids, were compelled to return after reaching Gondokoro. Afterwards, when Von Heuglin and Doctor Steudner determined to explore the country between the Nile and the Lake Tchad, the ladies resolved to accompany them. On this excursion Doctor Steudner died, and after him the mother of Fraulein Tinne, her aunt and two waiting maids fell victims to the African climate, and the Fraulein was left to finish the journey alone with Dr. Heuglin. The dangers which Fraulein Tinne experienced on this journey did not deter her from continuing. She started from Tripoli on the 28th of January of the present year, and arrived at Murzuk, in Fezzan, after a journey of about two months' duration. She traveled leisurely, her caravan consisting of more than fifty persons and seventy camels. All her followers, with one exception, were either Arabs or negroes, and she herself dressed like an Arab lady. She was looked upon by the Arabs with the greatest respect, and they called her "Benter Rey," that is, "Queen's Daughter." Her long sojourn and travels in the Orient produced a total abhorrence of European habits, and she became embittered against everything European. Before starting upon her last journey she determined to go even further in getting rid of everything not African about her, and so left her own and her servants' watches in Tripoli, and used the old fashioned Arabian sand clock or hour glass. She was eccentric in her abhorrence of civilization.