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René Caillié
French explorer (–)
Auguste René Caillié[a] (French pronunciation:[ʁənekaje]; 19 November – 17 May ) was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu.
Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordon Laing, who was murdered in September on leaving the city. Caillié was therefore the first to return alive.
Rene caillie biography
Caillié was born in western France in a village near the port of Rochefort. His parents were poor and died while he was still young. At the age of 16 he left home and signed up as a member of the crew on a French naval vessel sailing to Saint-Louis on the coast of modern Senegal in western Africa.
He stayed there for several months and then crossed the Atlantic to Guadeloupe on a merchantman. He made a second visit to West Africa two years later when he accompanied a British expedition across the Ferlo Desert to Bakel on the Senegal River.
Caillié returned to Saint-Louis in with