Paul Belloni Of Chaillu

Paul Belloni Of Chaillu (July 31st 1831 - April 19th 1903), is a explorer and a Naturaliste free - American. It is known to be the first Westerner to have met a Gorille.

It was born with the Réunion from a mother Mulâtre and a father immigrant since the metropolis to make fortune. This one did not recognize it well that it bears its name. Paul will always seek to scramble the tracks on his birth and his origins of Quarteron. His/her father flees the island and his creditors to go to run fortune on the west coast of the Africa where France has just installed a counter with the mouth of the Gabon river, future the Libreville.

Of Chaillu joined it at 17 years. It starts to learn the spoken languages in its area and to explore the interior of the country.

It arrives at the the United States of America in 1852 where it obtains American nationality.

It makes trade of ebony, Ivoire and other food products. One of its cargoes having disappeared, it accompanies the following one in 1855 with the the United States to calm its creditors. At the time of its stay with New York it publishes the account of its notes on the Gabon which is immediately an immense success. It obtains off the support of the Academy Natural Sciences off Philadelphia to explore the Gabon and explores in particular the arms of the sea and the estuaries.

During its voyage of 1855 with 1859, it captures many S. Its account of voyage appears in 1861 under the title of Explorations in Equatorial Africa .

Of Chaillu 1863 with starts 1865, the second forwarding to prove its geographical theories and hitherto a41dernier $c-b1, e,10 $c-b26 ce $c-b16 $c-b43, bn,84 meets many tribes unknown. It makes appear has Journey to Ashango-Land in 1867.

He is also the author of Stories off the Gorilla Country (1867), Wild Life under the Equator (1868), My Apingi Kingdom (1870) and The Country off the Dwarfs (1871). He also travels in Scandinavia of 1871 to 1878 and makes appear The Land off the Midnight Sun (1881) and The Old Viking (1889).

Its picturesque descriptions and its taste for research of trophy, are worth to him the hostility of some of its contemporaries like Alphone Louis Henri, Victor Of the Bridge, marquis de Compiègne (1846-1878) or of Griffon of Bellay (1829-?).

Source

Numa Pitcher (1988). illustrated Dictionary of the explorers and large French travellers of the XIXe century. I. Africa . Editions of the CTHS (Paris): 346 p.

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Biography of Paul Belloni Of Chaillu

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