Basutoland, a fertile, healthy, grain-growing territory in S. Africa, SE. of the Orange Free State, under protection of the British crown, of the size of Belgium; yields large quantities of maize; the natives keep large herds of cattle.
Population (circa 1900) given as 250,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bastille * Basutos