Liberia ^ 



From this point the Guinea coast curves to the north-east, and 

 does not again approach near to the Equator till the delta ot 

 the Niger is reached. The southernmost extremity of Liberia, 

 generally associated with the striking promontory of Cape 



5. RIVER CAVALLA 



Palmas rather than with the mouth of the Cavalla, has been, in 

 fact, one of the stages in African exploration, just as the northern 

 extremity of Liberia on the coast (the River Mano) very nearly 

 represents the extreme limit reached Jby the Carthaginian ex- 

 plorer Hanno in his celebrated voyage of discovery along the 

 north-west coast of Africa about five hundred years before 

 the Christian era. 



The political geography of Liberia^ at the present day makes 

 it out to be a territory of approximately forty-three thousand 



' On the bases of the Franco-Liberian Treaty of 1892 and the Anglo-Liberian 

 delimitation of 1903. 



