268 IIANTU PLACE-NAMKS IN AFRICA. 



US beyond the limits, mentioned aliove for Bushmen and Hotten- 

 tot, into districts where no name in their language survives, at 

 least on our maps ; but they have left their trace in a Dutch 

 or English name, from Lichtenburg and Potchefstroom to Natal, 

 as well as in the south and west. Some such names, however, 

 would not necessarily imply the presence of the people men- 

 tioned, e.g., Bushmans How, ])resumably from the form of a 

 kopje, and Kaffirkuil's River, in Stil Bay. 



To complete the south-west boundary of the Bantu names, 

 we must pass from Tsebe, near the Orange, in Bechuanaland, 

 which ai)pears to be the utmost name on the south-west, north- 

 ward over the Kuruman and Molopo, through the Kalahari, b\ 

 Malibeng (the pools), Mokopong (where ])umpkins are) and 

 Matsa (the lakes), to Saviko Pan and Bulibeng (at the deep 

 I)Ool — note how characteristically thirsty the names are here), 

 by Lake Ngami. Then, again, due north to Nokanin (at the 

 streamlet), and westward 1)\- the Bell and Norton valleys, to 

 meet the Herero names, with their characteristic O prefix: 

 ( Jkatuovatyonu, Otavi by (in)otfontein, and so by the now fa- 

 luiliar Okahandya and Otyimbingwe, to Walfisch Bay. 



The Hottentot names spread from Damaraland and (ireat 

 Nama(|ualand on the west coast (where the last north is the 

 Kaurasibj to the southern capes, and eastward, from well into 

 the Transvaal, as far as Zululand, as we have seen.* So great 

 was the spread, in the .sotith of our continent, of these Hamites. 

 whose remote cousins, the I^gyptians. we know so well from 

 our childh(jod, as occu])ying the north-east corner thereof. 

 Doubtless, wide tracts of Central Africa, also, are strewn with 

 buried Hottentt)t names, of which all trace has disap])eared ; 

 and doubtless, also, had 1 lietler knowledge of the central dia- 

 lects, I .should have been able to trace Hottentot i)honetics in 

 those tracts in some degree, but 1 liave never heard that an>- 

 other dialects but the Kaffir-Zulu ha\f adopted Hottentot sounds 

 and words to any extent ; not e\en the south-western grotip of 

 Bantu, whom we now find in close contact with these ])eople. 

 excej^t, of c(nirse. the case of Daniara, recentl\ enslaxed to 

 them. 



Having discussed the >()ulhern boundary of our names, it 

 remains to distinguish the Portuguese names o{ l)oth coasts, and 

 the Arabic names of the eastern, from the other coast-names, 

 practically all i'.anin, and linalK- in (leliiK- tlie northern limit 

 across the bjjuator. 



On the east coasl wi' lind the llantn names run up bv So- 

 maliland U) Mtoni, jn^i unrili nf Wubuslii ( I'ort Durnford), and 

 along the rivers of Pirili^h I'^ast Africa, while inland the Hamitic 

 tribes bold the pastures of the highlands far iiUo the north of 

 German East, opposite Zanzibar. At Magila. in the Bondei, we 



* And in the North-East Ka!ah;iri lo Kama-Kama, between Living- 

 stone and the Saltpans. 



