The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-01
EXPLORER DU CHAILLU DEAD.
DISCOvERER or THE GORILLA
AND THE PYGNIES.
lie Succuinbs to Shock Of Paralysis In
~. Petersburg. hut Had Lived Ions
Enough o Conf0 und Ills Critics---Russia
Is Coins TO Have Manchuria. He Said.
Special Gable Despatch to THE sun


Is tioins TO Have Manchuria. lie Said.
Special Cable Despatch 10 THE SUN.
Sr. PETERSBURG, April 3O.-Paul Belloni
Du Challu, the African explorer and author
died here last night following a stroke OF
paralysis. The brother Of M. Verest
ohagin, the painter. is making arrange
ments for the interment In what Is called
the Litterateurs Cemetery. In the event OF
Mr.. Du Chaillu's friends desiring the body
to be buried here.
Mr.. Du Chaillu was about to make a
twelve months tour OF Russia and had
received special facilities from the Car
for his journey.
Ambassador Mccormick procured Mr.
Du Chaillu's transference from his hotel
to the Alexandria Hospital. Subsequently
he telegraphed to the United States, asking
for instructions about the funeral The
Imperial Geographical Society has offered
to defray the expenses Of the funeral II 1t
il decided to bury the explorer here
Paul Belloni du Chaillu. geographer and
naturalist, had the consolation Of the dis
TO say, i told you 30. after years Of abuse
from the stay-at-homes who have laughed
at his reports Of new lands and strange
beasts
Born at New Orleans in 1888, Du Chaillu
devoted practically allBof his sixty-f1ve
years to travel and exploration and to
letting the world know. through his books
and lectures, what he had discov. red.
His first expedition. 1885, was In interior
western Africa, where he spent four years.
He travelled on foot 5000 miles, accom-
tod <vNl,, nvNl fns trN
land as IA degrees IS minutes east. 1t was
on this first trip that he hunted gorillas,
the stories Of which were later received
with scorn. He was also the first white
man to discover the pygmies.
At first his stories were received with
as much derision as were the tales Of Marco
Polo. Prof Gray Of the British Museum
was at the head of the group OF scientists
who were most bitter in their attacks upon
Du Chaillu's honesty. His defenders were
Sir Roderick Murchison and Prof Owen.
As to the accuracy of his geography,
would satisfy his critics. because he had
made all his observation from compass
bearings only He determined to 60 on a
second expedition to vindicate himself.
His second expedition began In 1883
and lasted two years; But in the mean
others.
When he reached the mouth Of the Ogobai
the canoe containing all his scientific
instruments was overturned and he had
to wait nearly year before others arrived.
He made the best OF that time by hunting
gorillas and studying their habits.
Finally, in September, 1894, he set out for
the interior with new set OF Instruments.
Commi negroes. After year in geogra-
phical research he had an encounter with
hostile natives and was driven back to the
coast losing everything but his Journals.
But these were the main thing. They.
confirmed all of his early findings and
added much that was accurate in place OF
much that was vague to the general u
formation on African geography.
The accounts Of Du Chaillu's exploration
in Africa and of his later travels in the
known books, Explorations and Advent
ures in Equatorial Africa "A Journey to
Ashango Land, -The Viking Age, Land
of the Midnight Sun" and 4Ivor the Viking. '
Two years ago, although then man OF
g. Du Chaillu went to Russia to study
and travel
What he said then in explanation Of his
proposed work in Russia makes particularly
Interesting reading to-day In view Of what
is now going on in Manchuria. He said
= With the development by Russia Of the
Far Es With ,, the
ia te" with Russia We are are gong to sel the
Russians millions OF dollars worth OF goods
better. for we can be friends and treat with
each other without hurting ,t each other
foolish to cry out against 1t. II is destiny
She ought to have Constantinople and some
day she w haze is 6n. f al IN, nat such
We we're Russians we would want II. That's
human nature