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line; nor indeed dc 1 know ol anotlier between I'l'eioria and the 

 Colony thron^h the Free State, though Maehavi and Ma(|uassi 

 stand on the road to Kiniberley. with Sivonel to the south-west of 

 the latter, a])|)arently the last ini])ortant sur\i\int; outpost of 

 the Seeoana names (Sefunelaj soutliward. Thenee northward 

 Bantti names crowd the line right awav througii Rhodesia to 

 the railhead, and down the Beira line also. Westward, the 

 Bantu runs to the Molo])0, and i^ossibly to Tsebe, south of this 

 and near to the Orange. Xorthward of \hv ^b)]o|)o is the 

 Kalahari Desert, putting a limit to P)echuana migrations to the 

 west, though some of the desert stations are named by them, and 

 there is a legend, mentioned Ijy Stow, of an adventurous i)arty 

 reaching the Atlantic, and there l)eing astonished at the sight 

 of a whale. .\s an illustration of the difflcultv with which they 

 must have found credence on their return. 1 ma\- mention that 

 an old nati\e woman (daughter-in-law, ]jy-the-l)ye. to the ( ireat 

 Moshesh). with whom 1 hapi)ened to be discussing the nature 

 C'f a whale, suggested as its Sesuto name that of tlie barbeh 

 ,-howing how little she realised the hugeness of a monster of 

 the deep — a hipj)o big as our Church, as I had to exi)lain to her. 



Before dealing with the western Bantu, it will l)e well to 

 round off our view of native |)lace-names of British .South Africa 

 1 V ccMisidering how far Dittch and b'nglish ])lace-names bear 

 witness to the presence of native races, who have left their own 

 trace in surviving names of stifficient importance, in our com])lex 

 bistorv, to appear on the white man's ma])s. The rarit\- of 

 Bantu natives, as distinct from Bushmen and Hottentots, in the 

 experiences of the Voortrekkers, is luarked l)y the names Kaffir 

 River, 20 miles south of Bloemfontein, on the line, and Kafifir 

 Kop. east of Winburg, both, we may note, in the Orange Free 

 State. But the traces of both Bushman and Hottentot are much 

 more frequent. We get Bushman Ri\er. east of the Bay and at 

 p:stcourt, in Natal; Bushman's Kop on the Kaa]) Plateau and 

 west of Smithfield, in the Orange Free State; Bushmans Drift, 

 at the far w^est corner of the Orange Free State, near Ramah ; 

 Bushmans Hoed, west of Colesberg ; Bushmans iMmtein. east 

 of Middelburg; Bushmans Poort. on the Orange, near 

 Bethlehem; and Bushmans Berg, south-west of Pneska. 

 We have again for the Hottentot: Koranna P.erg ar.d 

 Spruit, Orange Free State, the latter running into the 

 j.lodder River; another Koranna Berg, west of KuruuKui; 

 Korannafontein, at Lichtenburg, Transvaal; and ])ossibly Faai- 

 bosch S])ruit, west of Winburg, and Taaibo.sch Bult. between 

 Potchefstroom and the Vaal, commemorating the famous Hot- 

 tentot Kaptein, and Koksfontein, north of Philiiip<ilis. witli 

 Kokstad, the leader of the Gricjuas. To the Bu.'^hman names 

 we may add Keang Ko]), called after Kaang, the Bushman sky- 

 god. 



It is to be noted, in regard to these names, that thev carry 



