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Excerpts from "A Traveller's Guide to Swaziland" by Bob Forrester. ADVENTURE AIDS AIRLINES AIRPORT AIRPORT BUS ARCHAEOLOGY ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVES ART GALLERIES BANKS BIRDING BOOK EXCHANGE BUDGET TRAVEL BUSES BUSHFIRE BUSHMAN PAINTINGS BUSHMEN CAMPSITES CAR HIRE CARS and DRIVING CATTLE CLIMATE COLONIALISM CRIME DRUGS ECONOMY HISTORY IMMIGRATION KINGS MBABANE NATURE RESERVES POLICE RITUAL CEREMONIES SIBEBE TRAILS TOUR COMPANIES TRAVEL AGENCIES Index to information in the guide	BUSHMEN A fascinating people with a rich and mysterious folk-lore and a timeless life-style that lasted for thousands of years. Nomads and hunter-gatherers (Bushmen) in Swaziland came under severe pressure from the waves of Swazi and European settlers and they are now considered to be extinct as a cultural group in the Kingdom. Early settlers, both black and white, considered the Bushmen to be subhumans and they were either shot or speared as vermin or the women were absorbed into the black settler cultures. Their genetic heritage remains in the high-cheekboned, golden skinned and lightly built people sometimes seen in the country. The clicks in siSwati are a remnant of the Khoi-San languages, but they didn't enter the language in Swaziland. More likely there was contact between the two groups further north when the Dlamini were still coming down Africa.