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"We must recognise then, I repeat, that the Jai of Frieska 

 is not, of necessity, the ka of Ganka, nor is the ga of Coega 

 connected in any way with the ga of Qiiagga, nor is either of 

 the two latter in any way related to either of the two former, 

 and that the ga of tomtnadagga is another ga still, 'ihe mean- 

 ing- of the particle in any given case can only be determined 

 by a close and careful inquiry into the origin of the place-name 

 concerned. My own generalisation, quoted by Ivingon on 

 p. 758, was right as to the Hottentot origin of the names 

 mentioned, of that I am convinced; but it was wrong in 

 suggesting that -Ka and -ga were the same in meaning in each 

 case specified, as I think that now I have sufficiently shown. 



B. — The -Kama Group. 



In the Namaqua-Hottentot language the word tor water is 

 1 1 garni, and there can be little doubt tiiat Kaiiinia is the form 

 which this word assumed among the colonists in comparatively 

 early days; for in Wreede's Hottentots Woordslijst (compiled 

 aboiit the middle of the seveiiteenth century, and apparently 

 irretrievably lost until it was discovered quite recently among 

 the archives in Holland by Molsbergen, who prints it in his 

 " Eeizen in Zuid-Afrika/' I., pp. 215-224), the word Kaiimia 

 appears, and is given as the Hottentot word for — Dutch : 

 " Eivier of Water"; Latin: " Fluvius vel aqua." It also 

 api)ears in the same form in Kolben's Hottentotse Woordelijst 

 (1727): " Aqua & onine liquidum — Kamma — water of andere 

 vloeibare stolfe als wijn, bier " ; or as it appears in my German 

 '•^opy (p. 25, 1745): "i Aqua & omne liquidum — 'Kamnui — 

 liasser und alles flnssige," and yet again (p. 2G), " Fluvius — 

 Ka ' /// in a — Fluss . ' ' 



Most of the place-names having this termination, as 

 Kingon jjoints out, are Ciskeian, only three occurrino' in the 

 Transkei, viz., Mtjalanna, ()i)hama and Sidenkaina. The 

 remaining thirteen which Kingon gives are to be found in 

 various parts of the south-eastern section of the Cape Province. 

 To these a few others might be added, which are not now in 

 use, but which appear in the jf)urnals of early Dutch explorers, 

 e.g., Molsbergen (" Eeizen in Zuid-Afrika," II., p. 8) gives 

 us a resume of the " Dagverhaal " of Jan Ilartogh's Landtocht 

 (1707). in which is mentioned as situate three iiours from the 

 Botrivier, de " Swarte Eivier door de Hottentots DoggJia 

 Kanniia gen*." Farther on (pp. 9-10) the Steenbook Eivier is 

 mentioned, " van de Hott. gen^. Gaui dachama " ; and " het^ 

 warm water door Hott. gen*. Disportcainma.'' Valentyn 

 (" Beschrijvinge van de Kaap der Goede Hoope," p. 90, 

 1720) gives us " Tharalhnna (dat is ruige rivier) " as the 

 Hottentot name of the Olifants Eivier on the west coast (Hot. 

 I Kara, rough; and 1 1 garni, water. In "VYikar's account of 

 his travels in Little Namaqualand (1779), presented to 

 (jovernor Plettenberg (Molsbergen, II.. pp. 105-108). he 

 mentions " Toeh/Jcaiiiina of litteekenwater." Then Stow 

 (" IN'ative Eaces of South Africa," p. 205) gives us " tWula- 



