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think it is a corrupted form, and it is significant that Paterson 

 speaks of arrivino- " at a place called the Ka Cha Chow, one of 

 the branches of the Bushman's River," which is identifiable 

 with the Camdeboo. Paterson also is responsible for tiie inclusion 

 of Coerney, a name which is most baffliiio until we are in posses- 

 sion of the key to the citadel. He says: "At noon we overtook 

 our wagon at a place which in the Hottentot language 's called 

 I'urnow." Four i)uzzling names are ])ut into sul:>-grou]) { c ) , in 

 the hope that the mere grouping might suggest light ; while under 

 (d) we have brought together ( ianna Hoek, in Bedford District, 

 and Gonna Kraal, near Mossel I->a\-. and Kannaland. all three 

 being an attempt after the correct ))r()nunciation of the Hottentot 

 name for the eland. Remembering the Dutch equivalent of the 

 fTottentot r, perhaps we should add Koeranna. Koedoe's Kloof 

 and Ouaggafontein and many derivatives arise out of the 

 Plottentot i-Qudii and i-O^i'aru. botli of which give us the 

 names of animals new to the white man at the time of discovery, 

 and accordingly called by the Dutch e(|uivalents of the Hottentot 

 names. 



A concluding family of names w liich also takes shelter in this 

 group is to be found in Gonubie. (ioudini, Houtini, Kuljusie, 

 Muragie, Manubie, Sentubi. Whether the relationship is more 

 real than apparent depends, of course, upon the derivation, and 

 our problem is to determine the original in each case, to see 

 whether these names are but corruptions. Gonubie, of course, 

 is a corruption of Gqunube. Goudini was originally s]ielt Gou- 

 dine, and situate in a Dutch neighbourhood, the g may well be 

 a corruption of an original r, and the whole word an attem|)t to 

 spell an aboriginal name in Dutch equivalents, who shall say? 

 Perhaps it is to be accepted sim])ly as a Dutch name corrupted. 

 Kubusie and Manubie, in the correct forms, Kabusi and Man- 

 yube, and Sentubi, are all Kaffir names. Muragie, the remaining 

 one, occurs in Oudtshoorn. and reminds us irresistil)l>- of the 

 Muqu Ranie River mentioned b}- i'aierson as l)eing in that region, 

 not to mention the names of Hall's map, in the -as groitj). 



It will thus be seen that the only relationshi]) between the 

 members of this family is that which can be traced in tbc simi- 

 larity of their clothes. 



D. — 7 hi' Need for Further Research. 



Having thus |)resented the results of our en(|uiry to date, the 

 main impression left upon our minds is that of the vast field as 

 yet untouched, the harvests yet ungathered. ( )ne of the main 

 reasons for this is the meagre data which is available. Very 

 little is known of the Hottentot language, and still less of the 

 Bushman, and comparatively little material has been gathered. 

 F.ertin. in his paper on " The Bushmen and Their Language." 

 says : — 



" A survey of this language offers the greatest difficulties. 

 tlie principal one being the scarcity of docutnents to be found 



