Du Chaillu

American  

[doo shahy-yoo, shal-, dyoo, dy sha-yy] / du ˈʃaɪ yu, ˈʃæl-, dyu, dü ʃaˈyü /

noun

1. Paul Belloni 1835–1903, U.S. explorer in Africa, traveler, and writer; born in France.

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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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Du Chaillu gave Mr. Fraser the idea that the Bakele tribe habitually drove their small-pox sick into the bush and neglected them, which certainly, from my knowledge of the tribe, I must say is not their constant habit by any means.

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