Liberia: Description, History, ProblemsStarr, Frederick
History
Liberia: Description, History, Problems
Starr, Frederick
Liberia
Sinu, Sinoe, San Vincento, Rio Dulce. Savage rocks, bad bar;
Greenville is located at the mouth; canoes can ascend for about 15
miles; rises in the Niete or Nidi Mountains, close to the Cavalla
watershed. There are three channels by which boats may enter this
river. Here again we have long narrow lagoons paralleling the coast
and with a mere strip of land between them and the sea. Going from the
west toward the east we find the Blubara Creek and the Sinoe entering
with them. The Blubara Creek is supplied by two streams, the
Bluba and the
Plassa.
Uro.
Dru. A stream of some magnitude.
Esereus, Baddhu, Dewa, Escravos. It rises in or near the Niete
Mountains, not far from the sources of the Sinoe and Grand Sesters.
Ferruma, near Sasstown.
Grand Sesters. Empties into a lagoon nearly three miles in length.
Garraway, Garawe, Try. Accessible at all times to canoes and boats.
Within the next eight miles there are three small streams,
Gida.
Dia--with a rock reef stretching out from it.
Mano.
Hoffman. Another lagoon-river, which forms Cape Palmas harbor; it is
one hundred yards wide at its entrance to the sea. The town of Harper
is situated upon it.
Cavalla; Yubu (in its upper part); also Diugu or Duyu. The largest
river of the country; forms the boundary with French possessions; very
bad bar; goods going up the river are landed at Harper and sent across
the lagoon which parallels the Atlantic for nine miles and is
separated from it only by a narrow strip of land; navigable for small
steam vessels for about fifty miles; boats of considerable size ascend
to a distance of eighty miles; it rises in the Nimba Mountains at
about 8° north latitude; it receives a number of important
tributaries.
There are no true lakes in Liberia, although the name “lake” is rather
frequently applied to the brackish lagoons so often referred to. Thus we
hear of Fisherman’s Lake, Sheppard Lake, etc.
6. We have already mentioned that there are no natural harbors of any
value in Liberia; boats anchor at a considerable distance from the
beach, and all loading and landing is done by means of small boats or
canoes; at all points there is a dangerous bar, and it is a common thing
for boats to be capsized in crossing it.
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