Liberia <«- 



(which, by the bye, is described by Anderson and others of that 

 period as the country of the Western^ instead of, as it should 

 be, the Southern Mandingos) Anderson made treaties with the 

 chiefs by which they placed their countries within the limits 

 of Liberia. These treaties, the originals of which, written in 

 Arabic, are still in the archives at Monrovia, do not seem to 

 have been much more in intention than treaties of friendship. 

 But as the result of them a somewhat eccentric hinterland 

 boundary was fixed for Liberia. 



Anderson made in 1874 another exploring journey north- 

 eastward through the densest forest of Liberia. But the 

 geographical results were so vague and untrustworthy that it is 

 scarcely worth mentioning, except for his further dealings with 

 the Buzi people. 



Anderson's journeys and treaties (together with arrange- 

 ments which had been made subsequent to the fusion with 

 Maryland along the Ivory Coast) caused Liberia to claim a 

 hinterland of a curiously zig-zag outline. The suggested limits 

 of the republic's territory in 1876, and for some years later, 

 are depicted on the accompanying sketch-map. It says something 

 for the scrupulousness of Liberian agents that whilst they were 

 about it — mere map-making, so to speak— they did not boldly 

 include the Buzi territory and so round off the future boundaries 

 of their republic. But the Buzi tribe was a formidable one, 

 and had apparently agreed to no arrangements which could 

 be construed as bringing them by their own consent within the 

 limits of the Liberian State. 



The great traveller. Burton, visited the coast of Liberia 

 (chiefly Cape Palmas) in 1861, on his way out to Fernando 

 Po, to take up his consular work in the Bights of Biafra 

 and Benin. In one of the best books he ever wrote 

 {Wanderings in West Africa by a F.R.G.S.) he gives an 



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