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III. — Names after trees or plants. 

 IV. — Names after animals. 



V. — Names connected with superstitions and customs. 

 VI. — Names after parts of the body. 

 VII. — European names — 



1. Mission Stations. 



2. Farms. 



3. Tradin^s^ Stations. 



4. Dutch Names. 



VIII, — General Names. 

 IX. — Names derived from non-native sources. 

 X. — Names whose derivation is remote and not yet 

 traced. 



/. — Names zvitli Historical dissociations. 



The long series of Kaffir wars played no small part in the 

 history of South Africa, and it is only to be expected that the 

 names of the foremost chiefs would come to be associated with 

 specific places. From an historical point of view it is a pleasure 

 to record such names as Gaika's Kop, and Sandili's Kop, and 

 Nhlambe. Bomvanaland and Gcalckaland are, alas ! in danger 

 of being forgotten because of their general character, but Kreli 

 is remembered, and the grand old warrior Matiwane has a stately 

 range of mountains for his memorial. Fakit and Gangcli::xcc, and 

 Sic/can also are in danger. Kokstad marks a most remarkable 

 chapter in our history, when Adam Kok, at the head of his 

 Griquas, founded a quaint settlement in Nonmnsland. appointing 

 Judges, and having a written code of laws, and even banknotes. 

 By a great misfortune the Courthouse was burned, and this 

 unique code of laws was lost, the whole venture ending in disaster, 

 owing 10 the people selling their lands to white speculators. No- 

 manslaiid gets its name from the fact that though it formed a 

 part of Faku's Dominions, yet the extreme cold made it impos- 

 sible for his people to dwell there, except during the summer 

 months, when the cattle were driven thither for grazing. The 

 veteran Rev. ^^'m. Dower, whose name is so honourably and 

 nobly associated with the Griquas, amongst whom he laboured 

 for many years, tells me that when he first made his way thither 

 from the Colony proper, in 1869, he travelled all the way from 

 Gatberg to Lchana's (near Mount Fletcher) without seeing the 

 smoke rise from a single chimney. His wife added that the only 

 person they met was a native runner with a letter in a cleft stick. 

 Mr. Dower, faithful to principle, and with unfaihng altruism, 

 absolutely refused to take advantage of the great opportunities of 

 securing land for a mere song when ruin faced the people, though 

 many such came his way, and many other white men were laying 

 the foundations of their fortunes. Lehana's settlement had been 

 due to a quarrel with Moshesh, the i^aramount chief of Basuto- 

 land, and a branch tribe made its way across the Drakensberg 



