HOTTENTOT PLACE NAMES, 373 



Beutlei:, 17r):2. 



It is possible, with little trouble, to trace on a good map 

 the course of Beutler's journey as far as the Great Kei river, 

 by the names which he mentions of rivers and other natural 

 features, but after he has got beyond the Kei, it is very difficult 

 to follow him except in a very general way. He tells us that he 

 passed into the " Tamboegies land " — here the place names that 

 he gives are, some of them, certainly of their own coining, as 

 Spekberg, Coperberg; others do not disclose their identity until 

 we pick him up again well on his return journey. 



In his forward journey, Beutler mentions the Gourits, 

 Gamtousch, Cannasland and Cannasgebergte ; concerning the last 

 he says : 



"... genoemt weegens een seeker gewas dat de Hottentotten Canna 

 noemen, siinde een stork nmfpprmiddel . . . dit gewas siet er uijt omtrend 

 als liet iOf van een Hottentots vijge, dogveel klynder dragende eene geel 

 bloem." 



The name Kanna is applied to several species of Salsolu, as 

 ;S'. aphylla, S. fort i da (Kannabosch). Farther on we have the 

 place name Koernoe (our Coerney, IJitenhage district, C.P.). Of 

 this name Beutler gives the following explanation : 



" Een plaats door de Hottentotten Koernoe genaamt beyterkende soo 

 veel als snial Bosch, dog wij noemden deese plaats Hoender craal om de 

 menigte van Ternataalsche hoenders die sig alhier ophouden." 



On Hall's " Map of the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good 

 Hope," 1856, the Coerney river is named the " Kromme R." 

 and on an earlier map by Arrowsmith of " The Cape of Good 

 Hope " we find: " KroDinic or Kournay 7?." 



Beutler does not help regarding the meaning of the place 

 name Keiskamma , but he gives an interesting fact concerning 

 it. He says : 



" Arriveerden s'middags voor de Chijs Chamnia rivier, dewelke soowel 

 door de Caffers als de Hottentotten met den eigensten naana word 

 genoemt." 



Kragga Kamma was dealt with in the previous paper {S.A. 

 Jouni. Sc, 1920, p. 348); Beutler spells it Crucha Ca>iii)ia. 



It is interesting to know that our present Buffalo Eiver, C.P., 

 was known in those early days as the Kauha (Hot. jgdob, a 

 buffalo; lab, a river). This name was translated by the Dutch, 

 Buffels Rivier, which later on became Buffalo River. Beutler 

 describes it as: " Een groot lopend rivier de welke de Caffers 

 Kauka ofte Buffels rivier noemden." There is a small river in 

 the Prince Albert and Willowmore districts, a branch of tlie 

 Traka river, which is mentioned in Plettenberg's " Dagverhaal 

 by the same name and as having the same meaning: " Verlieten 

 wij de Traka s'morgens . . . passeerden . . . de Kauka of 

 Buffels Rivier." Collins (Movdie, " The Record," p. 9, Part V) 

 gives the Buffalo River of the East London district, the name 

 Kognie, an attempt, apparently, to reproduce the name now used 

 by the Kaffirs — " Qonci." It has been suggested that the Kaffirs 



