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desert (Hot. Igarob, desert, wilderness). The Hottentot name 

 of a kop situate to the south of the Aufjhiabies Falls is yawap- 

 tana {Inaicas, a rhinoceros; tanas, a head), the kop is now 

 known as Renosterkop to the entire exclusion of the original, 

 which is mentioned by Henrik Jacob Wikar in the account of 

 his wandering's up and down the Great, or Orange Eiver, given 

 to Governor Plettenberg, dated " Ctibo den 18 September, 

 1779." Kamkoa is the Hottentot name of a tributary of the 

 Orange Eiver. It is derived from the word I IKamaJ), a harte- 

 beest; the translation " I)e Hartebeestrivier " having ousted 

 the original. 



The names Karreelioufii i-icr (Hi/ltircfjap, from .'areh, 

 Karreehout; and fab, ri\er); and Klaarwatei- [Gattikannna, 

 from Igat.si, clear, bright; and 1 1 gavii, water), have already 

 been mentioned. The tributary of the Vaal River to which 

 tlie Yoortrekkers gave the name Vet Ririer, was known to the 

 Koranna Hottentots as the Gij Koiib (Hot. gei, great; Ihoub, 

 the fat of the stomach). The latter part of this place-name, 

 Ihoub, is found in the name (roupJt, occurring- in the Cape 

 Province, meaning fat, fertile. Wannbad, in Great Namaqua- 

 land, translates into Dutch the Hottentot name I Ai-I I gams 

 (Hot. rais, fire; llgatni, water). The White Kei of the 

 English colonist, and the Witte Kei of the Dutcdi, are both 

 translations of the Hottentot name of this river, which is given 

 by Sparrman (II., p. 146, 1785) in the form " t'Karnsi-t'Kaij, 

 or the white river" (Hot. ! gatsi, clear, bright; !ab river). 

 Sparrman also gives the Hottentot name of the Dutch 7Acarf 

 Kei (II., p. 146), in the form " t'Nu-t' Kag or the blatdv river) ; 

 (Hot. Xnu, black (r/. NoetzeJxaninia and Nu Gariep-); and .'ab, 

 river) ; the Dutch name being again a translation of the original 

 Hottentot name. A small branch of the ( )lifants Rivier, in the 

 Clanwilliam district, C.P., mentioned bv Le Yaillant (" New 

 Travels," I., p. 227, 1796), is " called'in the Hottentot lan- 

 guage Koignas, and by the Dutch Dirars-rivier (cross-river) " ; 

 the Dutch name translates the Hottentot name, the root of 

 wlii(di appears to be the word ! qou, to cross, to go across. 



There can be little doubt that there are others of the 

 place-names with which we are familiar which are in like 

 manner reproductions in Dutch' or English of the earlier Hot- 

 tentot names, the aiiuropriateness of wliicdi was apparent to 

 the colonist who understood the Hottentot language, and who 

 simply turned Hottentot into Dutch or English as the case 

 might be, with the result that the original place-name sojui 

 passed out of memory and no record of it was preserved. 



IV. — Superseded Hottentot Place-names. 



We will mention one or two Hottentot place-names which 

 remain to us in print, but which have been entirely superseded 

 by later comers. I Ai-I I gams, as we have seen, became 

 Wai-mbad in the south of what is now the South-West Protec- 

 torate on the other side of the Orange River, but the I Ai- 

 1 1 gains farther north becaine Windhoek, though who gave it 



