762 ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES. 



regarding- it in Europe. When reading in Bleek's report that he 

 has collected 84 volumes of 7,200 manuscript half -pages— and his 

 unfinished manuscript Dictionary contains 11,000 entries — the 

 reader must be pained to know that such treasure is out of reach, 

 buried in Sir G. Grey's Library in Capetown" (p. 57). 



Apparently Rertin was mistaken in his statement concerning 

 the extent of unworked material in the Grey collection, but in any 

 case, from a South African point of view, the misfortune is that 

 so little attention, and still less encouragement, has been given to 

 the study of the Hottentot Bushman materials. Realising the 

 difficulties, and how little data has been collected, the study seems 

 to be generally regarded as a well-nigh impossible one, and in 

 consequence is neglected. It is most earnestly hoped that this 

 appeal will catch the eye of those professors and others who are 

 directing the researches of our younger scholars, so that some of 

 our best South African students may be interested, and devote 

 long years to the work. Since it is, in its very nature, a study 

 requiring special qualification, it cannot be undertaken by anyone, 

 and the best results will be attained by those who have the 

 patience to allow their knowledge to accunuilate and their expe- 

 rience to mature. It is, moreover, a practical study to be prose- 

 cuted in South Africa, rather than an academic enquiry to be 

 attempted necessarily on theoretical lines across the seas. 



12. Classification. 



The concluding section of our enquiry is concerned with the 

 question of classification, which may be approached from two 

 ])oints of view. 



In the first place, we have gathered together, in alphabetical 

 order, the various names according to a philological classification, 

 based on the suffixes. As an analysis of the place-names, this 

 arrangement has value, though it only affects less than one-third 

 of the 1,400 Transkeian names recorded. The following figures 

 are not without interest in this connection, provided that it is 

 remembered that the H.-B. names are not confined to the figures 

 of that group, since certain of them ap])ear imder the suffix 

 grouping also, and that the Ciskeian figures are not included in 

 the suffix groupings : — 



Total Transkeian Names 1,400 



H.-B. Names in Transkei 456 (i.c, 33^6 %) 



Total Ciskeian Names 44.3 



H.-B. Names in Ciskei 226 (i.e.. 50 %) 



Names ending in -ana, -wana ... 124 



Names ending in -ane 49 



Names ending in -ani. -ini 42 



Names ending in -azi 19 



Names ending in -eni. -weni . . . 135 



Names ending -wa, -we 34 



Names ending in -wayo 7 



