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Réné Caillié.
(Fac-simile of early engraving.)

Caillié, who was born in 1800, in the department of the Seine et Oise, had only an elementary education; but reading Robinson Crusoe had fired his youthful imagination with a zeal for adventure, and he never rested until, in spite of his scanty resources, he had obtained maps and books of travel. In 1816, when only sixteen years old, he embarked for Senegal, in the transport-ship La Loire.

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Project Gutenberg's Celebrated Travels and Travellers, by Jules Verne Published 1881

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Sunday 8 March 2020

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Century:19th, Explorer, Place:Africa

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