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He proceeded with his company on a steamer to Kabinda, and 

 thence to Loanda, where his sick and suffering people were re- 

 ceived into the Portuguese hospital, and remained until Septem- 

 ber 27, five of them dying in the meantime. From Loanda the 

 expedition sailed to Cape Town, and thence back to Zanzibar, 

 where the people were paid off and discharged. Stanley started 

 for England December 13, 1877, and upon his arrival in London 

 was received with distinguished honors, such as he well deserved. 

 He had fairly won the English heart as well as the heartiest praise 

 of his own country. He had proved himself, next to Livingstone, 

 the greatest explorer that ever penetrated Africa. 



PAUL B. DU CHA1LLU. 



CHAPTER XXVHI. 



PAUL B. Du CHAILLU was not an explorer in the literal mean- 

 ing of the word, but rather an investigator, for his ambition was 

 to acquaint himself with the animal life of Africa, while the 

 physical features of the country were merely incidental to the 

 purpose of his travels. He had lived several years on the African 

 coast, where his father had a factory, and during this residence 

 his curiosity had led him to acquire the languages of the tribes 

 that came to trade in his vicinity ; he had also become acclimated 

 to equatorial temperature, and was in a measure exempt from 

 fevers which prevail near the coast. He was a Frenchman by 

 birth, but a cosmopolitan by travel and citizenship, for he had 



