HUGO ZOLLER
\hjˈuːɡə͡ʊ zˈɒlə], \hjˈuːɡəʊ zˈɒlə], \h_j_ˈuː_ɡ_əʊ z_ˈɒ_l_ə]\
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A German journalist and traveler; born at Oberhausen, Prussia, Jan. 12, 1852. He was for a number of years traveling correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, and explored and annexed to Germany various tracts of country in West Africa (1884-85). He has written: "Round the World" (1881); "The Panama Canal" (1882); "The Germans in the Brazilian Primeval Forest" (1883); "Pampas and Andes" (1884); "The German Possessions on the West African Coast" (1885); "German New Guinea" (1891).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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dust storm
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