Nyassa, Lake, lake in East Africa, feeds the Zambesi; is 350 m. long by 40 broad, at an elevation of 1570 ft., and was discovered by Livingstone in 1859; the waters are sweet, and abound with fish; the regions bordering it on the S. and W. are called Nyassaland.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Nyanza, Victoria * Nyassaland