380 HOTTENTOT PLACE NAMES. 



pseudebenus) : A place on the IKab river, a branch of the Great 

 Fish river (Hot. lab, a river). 



The phice names thus culled from Alexander, Kronlein, and 

 Home are sufficient to show the general character of the appella- 

 tions bestowed by the Namaqua Hottentots. 



^Miscellaneous. 



Beutler mentions in his Journal " een ander revier, de Katte- 

 revier, genaamt die in de Visch rivier uijloopt," but he does 

 not give the Hottentot name of the river; this is, however, 

 furnished us by Van Reenen (" Journal of a Journey from the 

 Cape of Good Hope," 1792). He speaks (p. 21) of " the Kat 

 river or Kafler's or Hottentot's Hiinca river " (Hot. jhoas, a cat; 

 \ab, a river). The European name appears to be a translation 

 of the Hottentot. The frequency of these translated names would 

 be, perhaps, a matter of surprise, but when we are informed, as 

 we are by the Eev. Barnabas Shaw (" Memorials of South 

 Africa," 1840, p. 37), that " many of the Dutch peasantry who 

 reside in the frontier districts, and have been born in the country, 

 speak it " {i.e., the Hottentot language) " with fluency," the 

 matter is fully explained, for though Shaw is speaking of the 

 western part of this sub-continent, we can easily understand that 

 the same condition of things would obtain on the south-eastern 

 side also. 



Baines (" Explorations in South- West Africa," 1864, p. 67) 

 refers to " the Quiep or Elephant river." Quiep is an attempt, 

 apparently, to reproduce the Hottentot IKoab, an elephant. It 

 is a river marked by Baines a,s havng its rise east of Windhoek. 

 There is a pass in the Cedarberg range, Clanwilliamstown, C.P., 

 known as the Krakadouw Pass — " the black cliffs of Krakadouw 

 Heights, a massive peak " (Cape Times, 7/11/21); the name 

 appears to be derived from the Hottentot words, \\Karaxa, 

 alDOunding in stones or pebbles; daos, a poort or pass. Cf. 

 Kraggakamma, and D. Gruis pad. a drift on the Doom river, 

 Claiiwilliam district, C.P. 



Two maps of " The Eastern Frontier of the Cape Colony,'" 

 the one accompanying King's " Campaigning in Kaffirland," 

 1855, the other being Hall's, published in the following year, 

 furnish us with a few Hottentot place names, several of which 

 have passed out of use, superseded by European names, wliile 

 others have survived the changes of succeeding years — e.g., on 

 Hall's map we have the " Kaitika or Yellowwood River," a 

 branch of the Buffalo river, C.P. King gives it as " Kanieka or 

 Yellow-woods River." Another small branch of the Buffalo river 

 appears on King's map as the " CJioka or Thorn River." Kropf 

 (Diet, in loc.) spells this name Tshoxa. King marks a 

 branch of the Great Kei as the " Tnnxe or Thomas River," while 

 Hall makes the Thomas river to be a branch of the " Tunxa." 

 King also has the Kamega and the Geyieka marked as branches 

 of the Gonubie ; these are names apparently Hottentot in^ their 

 origin, but their meaning is not clear. King has the Kowga 

 river of Hall's nvap marked " Gamka or Kowga River" {(himka 



