Caillié, René, French traveller in Africa, born in Poitou, the first European to penetrate as far as Timbuctoo, in Central Africa, which he did in 1828; the temptation was a prize of 10,000 marks offered by the Geographical Society of Paris, which he received with a pension of 1000 besides (1799‒1839).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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