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I gratefully acknowledge the help of more than I can men 

 tion here. I obtained these data for names and population nearly 

 all by personal enquiry, but shall be only too glad to be corrected 

 and further informed. Place-names are a most delicate prob- 

 lem, and I may easily have omitted important elements of popula- 

 tion here and there. 



There are two interesting names I ought to add on the line 

 to Walvis : one is Usakos (qusa-qkos), which means to bind the 

 forehead with a fillet, or hoofs (even the learned Lutheran mis- 

 sionary at Karibib, who most kindly helped, could not be sure 

 Avhich "tone" Ous has locally), e.g., with a reini. I won- 

 dered much what could be the origin of the name, fancying to 

 myself some likeness in the skyline to a human face ; till, one 

 day, I approached from the north, and there, visible in the 

 morning light, was an outcrop running all round the foot of the 

 mountain like a wavy ribbon. The name was luminously 

 cleared up. 



The other name is Swakop, and refers, by a rather unex- 

 plainable simile, to the gush with which the river (when there is 

 one at all; only after floods up-country) surmounts its bar. The 

 first element of Tsoa-Xoub is anus. At ordinary times it is quite 

 dry, though I was told an amusing story of former authorities 

 ordering a ship to sail up the Swakop. 



A PLACE-NAME MAP AND GAZETTEER ; WITH SOME 

 EXPLANATIONS. 



By Rev. Professor W. A. Norton. M.A., B.Litt. 



(Title only.) 



THE PROBLEM OF SUPERSTITION IN EDUCATING 



NATIVES. 



By S. G. Rich, M.A., B.Sc. 

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