The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . THOMAS NAST. NATAL 173 began to draw war-sketches and political carica-tures for Harpers Weekly, wliich made him verypopular. His work for that periodical during theTammany Ring exposures in New York Cityclassed him as the lirst pictorial satirist of thecountry. The Republican Elephant and Tam-manv Tiger were his inventive allegories. NATAL. The colony of Natal, South Africa,formerly a part of the Cape of Good Hope, wasin 1856 erected into a separate British possession.(See under Africa, page
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . THOMAS NAST. NATAL 173 began to draw war-sketches and political carica-tures for Harpers Weekly, wliich made him verypopular. His work for that periodical during theTammany Ring exposures in New York Cityclassed him as the lirst pictorial satirist of thecountry. The Republican Elephant and Tam-manv Tiger were his inventive allegories. NATAL. The colony of Natal, South Africa,formerly a part of the Cape of Good Hope, wasin 1856 erected into a separate British possession.(See under Africa, page 78 of these Supplements.)In it are now included Zululand and British Ama-tongaland, which previous to Dec. 1897 were ad-ministered as dependent protectorates. The bulkof the population consists of Kaffirs, only about60,000 being of European birth. The chief prod-ucts of the colony are wool, cereals, and is also raised, and tea-planting has beenrecently introduced. Of live stock, consisting ofhorned cattle, sheep, goats, and horses, there areincreasing numbers raised by both natives and
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