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Charles Chaillé-Long (1842–1917)
Chaillé-Long, Charles (shä’yā-lo
g’). An American explorer; born of French parentage at Baltimore, MD, 1842; died in March 1917. After serving in the Confederate army he was appointed lieutenant-colonel by the Khedive of Egypt (1870). Gordon made him chief-of-staff and sent him on a mission to King Mtesa of Uganda. He wrote: ‘The Three Prophets’ (1886); ‘Central Africa’ (1887); ‘The Sources of the Nile’; ‘My Life in Four Continents’ (1912).