SOUTH AFRICAN PLACIi-NAMES. 439 



Travels into Divers Parts of Africa and Asia the Great," 1665, 

 p. 13) : 



Wc could not reach the continent, but we dropt our anchor 14 leagues 

 short of Soitldania Bay {i.e.. Table Bay) afore a small isle call'd Coney 

 Isle, through corruption of speech, the proper name lieing Cain-yne in 

 Welsh of that isle." 



But he vouchsafes no information as to how the island 

 came to have a Welsh name, nor what was its meaning. 



'By the early Portuguese navigators this island was named 

 Ilha Branca (Port, branca, white). In 1601 Joris van Spil- 

 bergen gave it the name of Ilha Elizabeth : 



" 1653, October 21st. — Left this morning — anchored at night under Ilha 

 Elizabeth, named so by Joris van Spilbergen in 160T, and also called 

 Dassen Island.'' — " Riebeeck's Journal," Leibbrandt, 1897, Part I., p. 30. 



This last name — Dassen Island — won through. 



There is a range of mountains in Great Namaqualand, the 

 Hott M-itot name of which i'^ ^Han Xafivi, meaning " Red veld- 

 bulb Mountain." (Hct. 'Hani, Wachendorfia sp.). As this 

 name i. spelled by Alexander ("Expedition of Discovery into 

 the Interior of Africa," 1838, i., pp. 259-260), the ordinary reader 

 would scarcely recognizee it as an attempt to reproduce the 

 Hottentot name, and yet that it is such an attempt there can be 

 no doubt : 



"From Tuais we saw the long line of the 'Un'uma or BuJI) Mountain, tv/o 

 or three thousand feet high, east of us, and betw'een us and them 

 was the Koanquip, a branch of which was the Gnuanuip." 



In this spelling the commas represent clicks, but on Alex- 

 ander's map the name appears in the form Unuma. without com- 

 mas. 



There is little, if anything, in Alexander's form of the name 

 to suggest our familiar colonial place-name Hantam, and yet 

 Alexander's " Ununia ' and our " Hantam " are both of them 

 attempts to reproduce the Hottentot !Han lami. and all three 

 are to be regarded as meaning " Red bulb Motmtain." 



The name of the great waterfall, or series of waterfalls, 

 on the Orange River, situate to the west of Upington, Gordonia, 

 C.P., known as the Aughrabies Falls^ has fortunately survived 

 several attempts to supplant it on the part of explorers and 

 travellers. The earliest reference to it by this name appears 

 to be in the " Gesigt van bet land op de 28ste graad. 32 min. 

 Zuid, 3 gr. oost lengte van de Caap de Goede Hoop, beneden de 

 Groote Waterval Aukcerebis, in Oranje Rivier, of Garieb, in het 

 Einiquasland." { " Gordonverzameling No. 42." Rijks Prenten- 

 kabinet te Amsterdam.) It is also mentioned as " de magtige 

 groote waterval," by Hendrik Jacob Wikar, who accompanied 

 Governor Joachim van Plettenberg on his journey to the Orange 

 River, in his account of that journey, dated " Cabo den 18 

 September, 1779." He describes the spray-cloud, the precipice, 

 and the noise of the foaming water: 



" Hier van de Hamis is circa 2 uur te voet na de rivier, daar is de 

 magtige grootewaterval die men in de droogen tijd by helder weer op een 



