The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-10
PAUL B. DU CHAILLU
AUTHOR AND EXPLORER WAS
 BORN IN NEW ORLEANS.
His Checkered Career-First Re- ports of His Discoveries Received With In-
 credulitY.

New York Evening Post
 The name of Paul Belloni Du Chaillu who died at St. Petersburg on April 29th
 was the centre of fierce controversy pretty nearly all over the civilized world between forty and fifty years ago. when
 his stories of life in Central Africa, and his discovery of the gorilla, since abund- antly confirmed and established, were denounced as gross congregations, if not
 absolute lies. He never fully overcome the effects of this defamation and villi- fication. and although he lived to enjoy many honors, he did not reap the full reward due to his achievements. Born | in New Orleans in 1898. he was eraly talk
 en to Africa by his father who held a consular appointment in the Gaboon. He l was educated in Jesuit institution and
 acquired a smattering. of many native dialects. In 1852 he visited the United 1 States with cargo of ebony and publish ed a series of newspaper articles about
 the Gaboon country which attracted much attention In 1855 he returned to the West Coast of Africa to explore the territory l lying on both sides of the equator, and | travelled unacompanied by any white ! man. a distance of 5000 miles in a pract-
 cally unknown country. He killed and | stuffed 2,000 birds. including many pew | species, and many gorillas, of which he | brought the first accounts to Europe. It | was his vivid and eloquent description of these huge and feroCious apes that ex cited the ineredulity of stay-at-home 1 critics and travellers. who had not had | the good or i'll fortune to encounter them. | He valorously stood to his guns, but was | almost overwhelmed temporarily by the violence and virulence of the enemy's dis charge, and for long time the name
 of Du Chaillu was supposed by many
 to be equivalent to that of Munchausen. | It is only right to add that his reports
 were never doubted by the trends who
 knew his prohity and his adventurous dis
 pGSi'iSH, 1n is5s he returneh to New York. bring
 ing with him most valuable collection
 of natural specimens native arms and l iOnlnmpntE which found | their way finally to the British Museum ] Two years later he published his 'EX- ploration and Adventure. in Equa torial Africa. The accuracy of many of his statements was again assaled, Professor | Gray of the British Museum being one | his bttcrest critics, while Professor Owen | and Sir RoieriCk Murchson defended | him. As his observations had been made i from compass bearing only. he was unable
 to confute the testimony of existing maps. ] and therefore resolved to make another
 expedition for which he prepared himself 1 by course of scientific study. But in
 the meanwhile his original story was
 confirmed by q French expedition explor- | ing the Ogobai River. and by Capt. Bur 1 ton. who verified his account of the can
 nbalism practised by the Fan tribe. He
 started on his expedition, however. but i lost all his outfit by the swampinS or his canoe at the mouth of the OGohal 1 River. and was obliged to send home | for q new supply. While awaiting thls
 he again hunted the gorilla with success l When his instruments arrived he agaln l penetreated into the unknown interior put unfortunately had an encounter with the
 natives and was compelled retreat wlth | the loss of everything but his JouriaIS' | which furnished valuable additions to geo i eranh;cai and scie1tific Enowledee He 1 published an account or his adventures III | "A Journey to Ashango Land, the dlSlIlct where he was the first discovered or the
 pygmies. ...s
 After spending some time in the United
 States. where he was in great request as ho an ! Sweden Norway. Lapland. and r1niand. ! the fruits of which were nanlfeSted n ms
 books "The Land of the Midnight sun. l Ivor the Viking and The Viking Ago. | He declared that the latter these cost 1 S56.OG0 before it was published. the intor-
 nation in 1t being the result ot tns eN- CaVation of many hundteos ol hloulidS "A 1 the coast of Norway,
 In 1901 Du Chailu. who had lost none of l his restless activity or lnoeIatiSanle til-
 ergy. started for Rugsia, explaining ms oo-
 With the development by Russia of the
 Far East with the railroad across Siber- | ia to the Pacific there IS bound 10 come l tremendous expansion of our commercial relations with Russia. We are going to lsell the Russians millions of dollars worth | of goods and we are going to buy from | them millions of dollars worth. We must | know each other better. for we can Dc l trends and treat with each other with out hurting each other. Russia Is go | ing to have Manchurta. It is foolish to cry out against it. It is destiny She
 ought to have ConstantinopIe, and some daV she will have It is but fair that such a race should have that outlet to
 the sea. If we were Russians we would | want it. That's human nature. We are | going to move to the south in our eX- mansion, and we should view with a kind iy eve the other fellow. who is but do- ing what we ourselves have done and are doing. We jumped across the Mississippi
 we grabbed Hexas; we crowded t0 the Pacific and leaped over the seas That's nature Life is to fight Fight is all the pleasure there iE, l love the strong. wig
 orous race. and so love the Russians,
 l I'm Eoing to go among them and live with then-the peasants and the nohles. linn going to navigate the Don and the VoIga and the Dneiper and the Amur I'm
 going north. east south. and west. I'm going to every city of importance to look Unto their institutions of learning and
 science. hope to master their character land their system of living. socially. eco nomicaIly and politically. ! want to see
 tho new towns which they have caused to
 burst into heinz within the past few years
 with an energy that has only been equall-
 cd in the West of our own country. The analogy between the movement in Siberia with its rolling eastward of l. Ac0000 Rus