Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . onin New York in 1885, declaring it worse than everbefore. Father Ducey was assistant chaplain to theTombs for some years, having volunteered for thisoffice in addition to his other duties. He is now(1887) employed in founding a home for indigentservant women. DU CHAILLU, Paul Belloni (du-sha-yu),traveller, b. in Paris, France, 31 July, 1835. Heearly went to live in the French settlement at themouth of the Gaboon, on the west coast of Africa,where his father held a consular appointment, andwas at the same time engaged in commerce. Hewas educated in
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . onin New York in 1885, declaring it worse than everbefore. Father Ducey was assistant chaplain to theTombs for some years, having volunteered for thisoffice in addition to his other duties. He is now(1887) employed in founding a home for indigentservant women. DU CHAILLU, Paul Belloni (du-sha-yu),traveller, b. in Paris, France, 31 July, 1835. Heearly went to live in the French settlement at themouth of the Gaboon, on the west coast of Africa,where his father held a consular appointment, andwas at the same time engaged in commerce. Hewas educated in one of the Jesuit institutions inthat country, and acquired a knowledge of the na-tive languages, learning from trading expeditionsmuch of their habits and mode of life. In 1852he came to the United States with a cargo of ebony,and soon after published in the New York Trib-une a series of articles on the Gaboon country,which elicited much attention. After becoming acitizen of the United States, he sailed in October, DU CIIAILLU DUCHESNE 241. 1855, from New York for Africa, with the inten-tion of making a thorough exploration of the re-gion on the west coast, lying- between Latitude 2° 2° S. He spent nearly lour years in thistask, penetrating to about longitude 14° 15 K,travelling on foot, unaecompanied by any white man, upward of8,000 miles. Dur-ing this time heshot and stuffedover 2,000 birds, ofwhich 60 were pre-viously unknown,and killedo ver 1,000quadrupeds, amongwhich were severalgorillas, never be-fore shot and prob-ably never beforeseen by a white man,and 20 other speciesof animals previ-/7fiff(g? O^y ss ously unclassified. <jy^/J. &c^&&«~t^- He returned to New York in 1859, bring-ing a large collection of native arms and im-plements, and numerous specimens in naturalhistory, which were publicly exhibited, and manyof which were afterward purchased by the Brit-ish museum. The history of this expedition waspublished under the title of Explorations andAdventu
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