Swaziland, a small South African native State to the E. of the Transvaal, of which in 1893 it became a dependency, retaining, however, its own laws and native chief; is mountainous, fertile, and rich in minerals; the Swazis are of Zulu stock, jealous of the Boers, and friendly to Britain.
Population (circa 1900) given as 64,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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