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Other expeditions revealed the upper waters of the Moa or 

 Makona with its many affluents on the Mandingo Plateau ; 

 the most important of these affluents, the Meli, being discovered 

 by the Anglo-Liberian boundary commission under Captain 

 H. D. Pearson and Lieut. E. W. Cox. 



Several French officers and Senegalese soldiers lost their lives 



91. NATIVES OF THE KELIPO COUNTRY, CENTRAL CAVALLA REGION 



in these explorations, attempting to pierce the dense Liberian 

 forests from the north. The pagan cannibal tribes of the forest 

 did not regard them as deliverers from Samori's raids but as 

 fresh invaders come to ravage the forest villages. So there were 

 not a few fights until they became better acquainted with the 

 true character of the French explorers. On the other hand, a 



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