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would mean Lion River), a branch of the Great Kei, C.P. On 

 King's map the Kunap is marked as a branch of the Great Fish 

 river, C.P.; this name would appear to be derived from the 

 Hottentot word lona, crooked; or lotiap, the crooked; there is 

 also in Great Namaqualand a river mentioned by Alexander as 

 the " Konap or Dry river," which appears to have another deriva- 

 tion. Then — a curious coincidence — there is a branch of the 

 Great Fish river of the Cape Province marked the Kaap river, 

 and there is a branch of the Great Fish river of Namaqualand, 

 mentioned by Alexander (I, p. 220), of the same name: " the 

 Kaap Eiver, a branch of the Great Fish River." On Home's 

 map the name of this river appears in the forms IKab (with the 

 click) and Kab (without the click), indicating pretty clearly the 

 origin of the Nama name, lab, a river; which would appear to 

 be the origin of the Cape Province name also. 



The name Inxu as applied to a branch of the Tsitsa river in 

 the Transkeian temtories, known also as the Wildebeest river, 

 is of interest because, as was pointed out by Kingon (South 

 Afiican Journal of Science, 1918, p. 718) the x click has been 

 substituted for the q click, probably by someone imable, or not 

 careful enough, to distinguish between the two, the correct 

 spelling being iNqu, the name applied by the natives to the 

 black wuldebeest (ConnocJiaetes gnu). But when it is asserted 

 that iNqu is " the Hottentot name for the wildebeest " (p. 756), 

 the statement is certainly open to criticism. The Nama 

 Hottentot name for the wildebeest is gaob, while the Kora 

 Hottentot name is gaub, or according to Burchell, ghow ; this 

 would suggest that the origin of the Xosa name iNqu must be 

 sought from some other than a Hottentot source. The fact that 

 Arbousset and Daumas ("Narrative of an Exploratory Tour," 

 1846) in their list of " Seroa or Bushman " words give the word 

 Gnu in the very form in which it is used by European travellers 

 and others, seems to put it beyond dispute that the word is of 

 Bushman origin; and this is further corroborated by a Bushman 

 prayer for food in which the ward 'gnu is used of this animal. 

 The prayer is recorded by Arbousset and Daumas (supra, p. 256), 

 and also by Stow (" Native Races of South Africa," 1905, pp. 

 133-134). This should appear to prove that the river name Inxu, 

 or more correctly Inqu, is of Bushman rather than Hottentot 

 origin. 



This appears to be the fact of the case also with the Kaffir 

 word iQudu, which appears in our place names in the form 

 Koodoo — a siding on the Kimberley-Vryburg line ; and Koodoos 

 Kop — on the Touws river, C.P. The assumption (S.A. Journal 

 of Science, 1918, p. 756) that iQudu is a Hottentot word does 

 not appear to be capable of proof. It certainly is not a Bantu 

 word, and does not appear to be used by other than Xosa-speaking 

 people; but neither is it a Hottentot word. An early drawing 

 of this animal, reproduced in Molsbergen (" Reizen in Zuid- 

 Afrika," I, p. 32), gives tlie name as " Coedoe " "in het 

 Namaquas Geib " ; Kronleiu (" Wortschatz der Khoi-Khoin," 

 in loc.) has the word in tlie form " Xaib, subst.- das Kiiddii "; 



