The Land of the Long Night

Paul Belloni du Chaillu (1835-1903) was a French- American traveller and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas and the Pygmy people of central Africa. In his youth he accompanied his father to the west coast of Africa. In Gabon, he was educated by missionaries, and acquired a knowledge of the country, its natural history, its natives, and their languages. Until 1859 he explored the regions of west Africa in the neighbourho