Liberia ^ 



met at first by a very vague dispatch from Lord Clarendon, 

 which settled nothing. In 1870 President Roye went to 

 England to see Lord Granville, who proposed that the British 

 frontier should be carried eastwards to the banks of the Sulima 

 River. A joint commission was to be established at the mouth 

 of the Sulima to inquire into the validity of Liberian rights 

 west of that stream ; but by consenting to this somewhat curious 



65. kiver sewa, once claimed as the liberian western frontier 

 (gallinhas country) 



proposal President Roye had no doubt gravely compromised 

 the right of his Government to an extension west of the Sulima. 

 As a matter of fact, no steps were taken to carry Lord Granville's 

 proposals into effect, owing to the disaster which led to the 

 death of President Roye in 1871. The question, therefore, of 

 this north-west frontier continued to remain open until closed 

 by the Anglo-Liberian Treaty of 1885, as will be related in 

 due course. 



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