The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-05-22
PAUL pu CHAlLLu ENDS HIS
LIFE IN RUSSIA.

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the Widely Known American With
an Account of His Work.
(St. Petersburg cable.)-The Amer
lean author and explorer, Paul du
Chaillu, Is dead. He was stricken
with paralysis Wednesday, April 20,
and the end came at midnight. The
funeral arrangements will be looked
after by a brother of Verestchagin,
the Russian painter, and If it is deem
ed that the burial take place here the
interment will be in the Litteratuers
cemetery.
Paul Belloni du Chaillu, who was
born in New Orleans in 1885, by his
fascinating personality endeared him
self to all who met him in every part
of the world. His career was full of
adventure and his books describing
his travels and experiences have been
read with delight by countless multi
tudes all over the world. Du Chaillu
is said to nave been the first white
man to see a gorilla and he it was
who first discovered a tribe of pyg-
mics, fat, short, and ferocious, dwell
ing in the heart of Africa.
While yet a child he was taken by
his father to a small trading station
on the coast of Africa. When he was
II years old, with a single companion,
he ventured into the interior of the
dark continent. For three years he
travelled on foot through the country
that Stanley afterward traversed,
learning 80 native languages, discov-
ering 35 native tribes, studying the
customs of the people, and collecting
specimens of the fora and fauna of
the country.
When he returned to America in
1852 he published in the New York
Tribune a series of articles upon his
discoveries which brought down upon
him the scorn of the geographers and
scientists of the old school. He was
laughed at. He was called a dupe of
clever showmen. 1t was this expert
ence which fixed the course of his
life. He at once learned the use of
scientific instruments and became an
expert photographer. Then he went
back t O Africa, verified his former dis
coveries, and began the publication
of his books of African travel. He
had made a new map of Africa.
Interesting as are the printed rec
ords of his experience in Africa, Du
Chaillu's conversation was even more
entertaining. 1t was in conversation
that one felt the strength of the per-
sonality that had made his adventures
possible, for he had achieved his re-
suits by f~raternizing with the people
whom he studied. During the course
of his travels he had $4,000 wives Of
fered to him from among the dusky
daughters of the native tribes. He
died a bachelor.
Du Chaillu's series of books con-
corning his African adventures in
cludes "a Journey to Ashango Land"
Explorations and Adventures in
EuudlOIldl AlllCdy oIOllCo VI IhS
Gorilla Country "Wild Life Under
the Equator Lost in the Jungle"
my Apingi Kingdom" "The Country
of the Dwarfs," and THE Land of the
Midnight Sum-"
Finally he seemed to weary of the
tropics and turned to the lands and
peoples of the North. He was the in
ventor of the title "The Land of the
Midnight SUM-" and often laughing
ly spoke of the piracy of the later lee
turers who had adopted his express
sion without so much as by your
leave"
Du Chaillu had many friends in al
most every city of the world. He
carried through life the impulsive
manner, the ready enthusiasm OF his
youth. He was very Gaelic in accent
and manner Slightly below medium
size, with dark eyes and a mustache
that early in life was touched with
gray, he had a resistive power that
enabled him to work 16 to 1S hours
a day, to tire out n secretary aitei
another, to endure hardship or tc
lead the life of the society lion, as oc
casiou demanded.
With the opening of the UNEMPLOYED
places of the continent, the type to
which Du Chaillu belonged-if one
can ~categorize him at all-has almost
disappeared. He was wont to cal
himself the last of the Du Chaillus
who are the last of the Huguenots."
George M. Gould, an eminent ocu