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In a somewhat similar way the name of the mountain of 

 the Amatola range — Gaika's Kop — conveys an idea that dees 

 not belong to it. In its present form the name appears to refer 

 to an individual, when originally it was void of any such 

 reference. The native name of the mountain is Ntab'egqira, 

 which means " the witch-doctor's mountain '' — the iGqira is a 

 native doctor who professes to discover those who bewitch. The 

 name has no connection, other than an etymological one, with 

 the name of the once powerful Gcaleka chief, known to the 

 colonists as Gaika. The fact that the proper name of this chief 

 was Gqira seems to have misled the colonists, who have given a 

 personal reference to the name Gaika's Kop, when its original 

 reference was to the functionary. During the Kaffir War of 

 1835 an attempt was made to supersede this name by another: 



"The most conspicuous object in the scene was the lofty conical moun- 

 tain called Gaika's Cop or Quira (Luheri), "'the doctor,"' the head- 

 quarters of lions, and now named after our physician, ' John Murray's 

 Hill,' a high compliment to the chief of our medical department." — 

 Alexander, '' Narrative of a Voyage of Observation," etc., 1837, ii, p. 242. 



The earlier name, in its corrupted form, survived this 

 attempted change. 



There is a small place in British Bechuanaland 

 the name of which appears on the map as Groot 

 KoNiNG, and at no great distance there is also a Klein 

 Koning; these places are situate to the south-east of Kuruman. 

 The names are thus given on J. Templer Home's *" Hydro- 

 graphical map of the Cape Colony,"' 1895. The name appears 

 also in the form Koning on the map in Stow's " Notes on 

 Griqualand West." 1875. But, notwithstanding the Dutch 

 appearance of the name, it is nothing ether than a corruption 

 of the native name of the place Kgoning,, from Sechuana, 

 dikgon, sticks, firewood, and means " the place of firewood." 

 The name has made one jump from the hearth to the throne. 



There are one or two place-names that occur more or less 

 frequently on early maps, and in early accounts of the Cape, of 

 which the physical features to which they were appended appear 

 to be in doubt. So far as the name is concerned, Cape Falso 

 has disappeared from modern maps. The question has arisen 

 as to its exact locality. Early voyagers, travellers, and 

 geographers could scarcely have succeeded better had it been 

 their intention to mystify us. Pigafetta (" A Re])ort of the 

 Kingdcm of Congo, a Region of Africa, and of the Countries 

 that border round the same. Drawn out of the Writings and 

 Discourses of Odoardo Lopez a Portingall." By Philippo 

 Pigafetta. Translated out of the Italian by Abraham Hartwell, 

 London. Published by John Wolfe, 1597, p. 188) seems to 

 place this Cape to the east of Cape Agulhas, while the map in 

 "A Relation of the Voyage to Siam by Six Jesuits" (1688) 

 places " Cabo Falso ou Cap des Aiguilles '' at the western 

 entrance to False Bay (the point which is our Cape of Good 



