874 JU»TTENTOT I'LACE NAMES. 



have assimilated the Hottentot Kaukd (Buffalo liiver) to this 

 word Qoiici {Kid. am Qonci, the Boerboon or Hottentot's 

 Beantree, Schotia speciusa), but whether this is so or not is very 

 doubtful and requires further investigation. 



There is a small river eastward of the Buffalo liiver marked 

 on Home's Map, 1895: " The Quenera R/[ The name is of 

 interest because we can trace it step by steji approximately to 

 its original form. On Home's Map (1895) we have it in the 

 form " Quenera " ; on Hall's Map of the Eastern Frontier, 1856, 

 it appears in the form " Geneka " ; in Arrowsmith's Map of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, 184 — , it assumes the form " Kinigha or 

 Elands River "'; and in Beutler's Journal, 1752, nearly a hundred 

 years earlier, we have it in the form " Caninga ofte Elands 

 Rivier, " the Dutch name being a translation of the Hottentot 

 name, the latter being derived from the two Hottentot words, 

 IKani, the Eland, Tauiotragus oryx; lab, a river. After passing 

 the Gocnocbc (Gonubie) River, Beutler mentions a small river 

 that I have been unable to identify. He says: " Passeerde . . . 

 de rivier Goadar beytekende Moeras rivier." Goadar may be 

 from the Hottentot word goa, to be half dry. He next comes 

 to " de GiOcrecha ofte Aloes rivier "; this would seem to be 

 our Kivelegha (the Kaffirs having substituted, as they usually 

 do, the I sound for the r sound, the latter being foreign to the 

 Kaffir tongue), a river situated between the Gonubie and the 

 Kei. This last-named river, the Kei, Beutler calls the " Y 

 Rivier,'' ignoring the initial click altogether: " De revier Y die 

 het land van de Gaffers van dat der Tamboegis schijd," and on 

 the same page he informs us that " de reviere Y beteijkende 

 soo veel als Zand revier." In this, however, he would appear 

 to have been mistaken, for the word Kei seems to be another 

 form of the Hottentot lab, a river, or the word gci, meaning 

 great. 



Another n;ime of interest given by l^eutler is Tarkii, which 

 is rendered " Women's river " — " Een rivier Tarka of het 

 Vrouwenrivier genaamt." This is Beutler's spelling of the name 

 of the river in the Prince Albert district, C.P. — the Traka ; this, 

 name is derived from the Hottentot words faras, a woman, and 

 lab, a river. This appears to be the derivation also of the name 

 Tarka as applied to the branch of the Great Fish River which 

 has given its name to the Tarka district and to Tarkastad, C.P. 



The Leeuwen river in the present Himiansdorp district. 

 C.P., is derived by translation from the Hottentot name of the 

 liver which Beutler gives as Chainmago — " Quamen wij by de 

 Leeuwenrivier, in het Hottentot Chammago gent." (Hot. xami\ 

 a lion). A small river is mentioned by Beutler as situated 

 between the Leeuwen and the Kroinme rivers (Humansdorp 

 district, C.P.), the Hottentot name of which has now disappeared. 

 He speaks of it as the " Ou Chamma, dat te erggen is Vetwater" ; 

 the name is derived from the Hottentot words gov, to be fat, 

 nnd Wgami, water. This river is described by " baas Thuynier 



