ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES, "JJ^ 



Bombo wemfene {lit., the baboon's snout), which should.' 

 perhaps, have been classified under the second class of names, i- 

 the name given to a hill. 



Bongolo, the name for the wild ass, applied also to the mule. 



Dambeni, if indeed it comes from i-damba, shows us that we 

 may find the fish of that name at that spot. 



Esincuka and Ncuka are to be considered together witti 

 Zingcuka. Ngcuka is the Fingo form, and Ncuka, as is usual, 

 the Xosa, for the brown hyena {Hycsna brwmea Thunb.), an'l 

 the longer forms given signify the home of the wolves. 



Impukunkona, " the mice are here." 



Gungundhlovu, though indirectly, informs us of the presence 

 of elephants. It is the name of the Great Place of Makaula, in 

 Mount Frere, and may be regarded as of Zulu origin. Cf. tht 

 native name for Pietermaritzburg. 



Indzve, the blue crane, Anthropoides paradisea Licht. 



Ntibane is an mteresting name, and I am grateful to Mr.' 

 Godfrey for additional notes on the point, in-tibane is Xosa ; 

 in-tutyane is Tembu, and these are names for the red-capped 

 lark {Calandrella cinera Gm.) Now the problem about Ntibane 

 is this, that the place is so called, and the bird (known to the 

 Kaffirs by this name) is there, but the bird is known locally as 

 Ntntyane. Perhaps the name was introduced by a rearrangement 

 of tribes — which, as a matter of fact, did take place. This would 

 dismiss the alternative that Ntibane was so named from the plant 

 of that name. 



Inyati, the Cape buffalo, Bos caffcr Sparr. 



Mbidlana, the name of the small wild cat. 



Inxu, and the also misspelt M.vu, both are attempts ac 

 i-Nqu, the white-tailed gnu, Connochaetes gnu H. Smith. This 

 is a name that ought to be correctly rendered in all futur^ 

 records, maps, documents. 



Nccdatia is diminutive from i-Ncedc, the tavvny-heade<i 

 grass-warbler, Cisticolla fulvicapilla Vicill., a name which is ono- 

 matopoeic. 



Ncikazi. from i-Nci, the aard wolf, Protelcs cristatiis Sparr. 



Ndsebe, a name described in detail elsewhere, and constitut- 

 ing quite a discovery, and certainly a new word. 



Ngcaca is a relic of the days when the cowrie shell was used 

 extensively in barter, and for ornament, and is derived from 

 i-Ngcaca, a cowrie. 



Ngonvaimt is a graceful remembrance of our old friend Ic , 

 now, alas, extinct ! 



Ngzvane, curiously enough, tells us of the octopus — a sur- 

 prising name. 



Ndlnnkuln (lit., large house) is the name for the Cape spar- 

 row, Passer mellanitrus'Sx. Mull, a name it gets from the size of 

 its nest. 



Nkau and Nkankazi are the male and female respectively of 

 the vervet monkey, Cercopithecus pygerythus Cuv., the former 



