Liberia ^^ 



descriptions of Anderson, at any rate in the north-eastern part 

 of Liberia. It was not until the Hostains-d'Ollone mission had 

 passed entirely outside the basin of the Cavalla that they quitted 

 the dense forest for a park-like region, which in its turn soon 

 gave way to the more arid condition characteristic of the whole 

 Central Sudan, from the Upper Niger right across to Lake Chad 

 and Wadai. A small portion of this relatively healthy, sun- 



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smitten country, so well suited to a pastoral existence and the 

 raising of vast numbers of cattle, horses, sheep, and goats, comes 

 within the political limits of Liberia, if France gives the former 

 country her due under the treaty of i 892. But five-sixths of 

 Liberia will remain a forest region, only modified by the clearings 

 of the Americo-Liberians on the coast and of the more industrious 

 agricultural tribes in the interior. 



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