Du Chaillu

[ doo shahy-yoo, shal-, dyoo; French dy sha-yy ]

noun

1. Paul Bel·lo·ni [pawl b, uh, -, loh, -nee, pawl be-law-, nee], 1835–1903, U.S. explorer in Africa, traveler, and writer; born in France.

Example Sentences

Another book that the we did not know that the Darwins purchased was a copy of the popular science book on gorillas that was all the rage just after Origin of species was published: Paul Du Chaillu's Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa.

From Science Daily

But from Paul du Chaillu to W. A. Chanler, "the Last Explorer," as he has been called, just how much more do we know of Africa than did the Romans whose bridges still stand in Tangier?

From Project Gutenberg

Like a good many other travellers, including Mr. Du Chaillu, who says he is a dear boy, Thomson does not smoke.

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An African race once tried to bribe Mr. Du Chaillu with a kingdom and over eight hundred wives—"the biggest offer," he admits, "I ever had in one day."

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Du Chaillu was looking very comfortable in a house-boat the other day, where his hosts thought they were "roughing it"—with a male attendant; and in Stanley's easy-chairs you sink to dream.

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