882 HOTTENTOT PLACE NAMES. 



the Kora Hottentot name is given b}- Liehtenstein as chaib, and 

 Burchell as gcip. This means that we must seek elsewhere than 

 in Bantu or Hottentot for the origin of the word iQudu. The 

 only Bushman name for the animal that the writer has found 

 up to the present is that given in Bleek and Lloyd (" Bushman 

 Eolk-Lore," 1911, p. 52), IXau; but if, and how, iQudu has been 

 evolved from this, or from some other Bushman dialectal form, 

 remains to be discovered, 



Bunbury (" Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good 

 Hope," 1848, p. 127) says: " We saw distinctly . . . the 

 bold outline of the Winterhoek or Kuruka mountain. 

 The sailors call it the Cock's-comb mountain." Then on a map 

 of the " Cape of Good Hope," by J. Arrowsmith (n.d.) this fine 

 mountain is named " Kurulia or Winter Peak." This name 

 Kuruka as applied to the n:iountain in the Uitenhage district. 

 C.P., still known as the Cockscomb, I have met with nowhere 

 else, and am puzzled as to its meaning. On " A Chart of the 

 Bank of Lagullas, and Southern Coa,st of Africa," by J. Rennell, 

 bearing the date " November, 1778," it is called " Craggy 

 Mountain," a name repeated in Van dc Sandt's " Companion to 

 the Cape of Good Hope Almanac," 1847 : " Craggy Mountain " — 

 or the Cockscomb — or the Grenadier's Cap — or the Four Sisters, 

 as it is variously termed, is situated ... in tlie Winter- 

 hoek."- The Hottentot name of this mountain is gi\en on Hall's 

 map (1856) as " T. citmmumqiia or Cockscomb." In the Eastern 

 Province Monthly Magazine, II, 1857, p. 63, the Hottentot 

 name appears in the form " T'numqua," and in the Cape 

 Monthhj Magazine, 1858, p. 367, in the more extended forni 

 " T'mum cum qua," both the latter forms receiving practically 

 the same translation — " the Mountain of the INIist." This 

 Hottentot name is derived from the words Ihonii. a mountain; 

 and Immuqua, covered with mist. The name Kuruka looks more 

 like the name of a river than of a mountain. 



This paper might have been much longer, but its 

 purpose will have been served if the attention of students is 

 directed by it to this interesting branch of our South African 

 topographical nomenclature. 



