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and servants who are to be taken to the Niger Delta, the 

 Cameroons, and the Congo coast. Among the more celebrated 

 of these Kru villages are Little Kru, Setra Kru, Little and Great 

 Nana Kru (a port of entry), Great and Little Wapi, Nifu (a 

 port of entry), and Sas Town, also a port of entry. The coast 

 is broken by a multitude of little rivers flowing down from 

 the hilly country at the back. Some of these hills can be 

 seen from the sea on a clear day. One of them has a sugar- 

 loaf appearance, and is about seven hundred feet high. In 

 the vicinity of Grand Sesters River there are heights near the 

 coast of several hundred feet ; otherwise, it is a monotonously 

 low line of dark forest, straw-coloured sand, and foaming white 

 breakers. 



Grand Sesters, as already mentioned, is a name which is 

 derived from the Portuguese word Sestro, meaning "sinister," 

 " suspicious." It is at the mouth of a river which enters 

 the sea by a very narrow opening, and is continued westwards 

 along the coast by a long, narrow creek at the foot of the hills. 

 Grand Sesters River is scarcely indicated on most charts of 

 the Liberian coast, but it is the boundary between the counties 

 of Sino and Maryland. It is possibly identical with a stream 

 that rises on the western flanks of Mount Keto in the Kelipo 

 country. 



Maryland County on the modern map of Liberia is sadly 

 truncated. It originally stretched along the coast from Grand 

 Sesters past the Cavalla River to the Rio San Pedro on the 

 Ivory Coast. The Cavalla River therefore flowed through the 

 middle of this once independent American Negro State. But 

 in 1892 the French seized the coast between the San Pedro 

 and the Cavalla. The interior of Maryland County is also 

 threatened with serious diminution, since it has been found 

 that the main course of the River Cavalla trends so much 



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