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in a sharp bend to the south-east. Captain Woelffel, a French 

 officer who has surveyed the northern part of Liberia, thinks 

 that at this abrupt bend to the south-east the Cavalla receives 

 another affluent, nearly equally important in volume — the Nuon 

 or Western Cavalla, which also rises (according to his statements) 

 in the Nimba Mountains. Captain d'Ollone, however, argues 

 that the Nuon does not join the Cavalla, but flows either towards 

 the St. Paul's or to the Farmington River. Captain d'Ollone 



192. " HALF CAVALLA '— Tllli HKACll NKAR THE MOUTH OF THE CAVALLA RIVEK 



asserts that the natives who accompanied himselt and the civil 

 administrator, Hostains, said that the Cavalla receives no 

 important affluent above its junction with the Duobe. In any 

 case, it seems correct to regard the Yubu as the main stream 

 of the Cavalla. The Nimba Mountains also, according to the 

 French surveyors, give rise to the Tige or Nipwe River, which 

 joins the St. Paul's. Our knowledge, however, of the hydro- 

 graphy of the innermost parts of Liberia is still extremely vague. 



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