-^ Recent History 



feeling displayed by France. Curiously enough, Dr. Nachtigal 

 died at sea as he was returning from the Cameroons, and 

 was actually buried at Cape Palmas on Liberian soil. From 

 this time onwards, however, Germany was disposed to increase 



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her influence in Liberia, either by demanding indemnities and 

 threatening bombardments when German ships were wrecked on 

 the coast or by tendering Liberia loans of money when she was 

 hard up. In 1897 the German Consul concluded a dispute 

 about damage to a German plantation at Cape Palmas by offering 

 to the Liberian Government a treaty placing the country under 



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