KANTU PLACE-NAMES IN AFRICA. l^] 



in. — ( )i1kt features : — 



Kaliikaiii t" at the chalk "') is Dutch. 



.\Jakrlckrlla — desccut. dropjiiuij". 



Miifckiii;/, srfik'iiifj — at the rock (s). 



Scfikaiiciiij — at the little rock. 



Mpanuic ( P^ickshurij^ ) means the flat niuuntaiu. 



Majoana a inohcli. near La(l3hrand. ().]"". S.. means Two 



Stones. 

 .\nd Mabiila. near 1)\ . is " opem'ngs." 

 LilsclliiiKj, at tlie large nntiui stones, cf. liiiibokotwa, in 



Kaffir. 

 Called after parts of the body are — 



Tlinrelc — a teat. 



Scliiiua — collar hone, necklet. 



Dlpctung — chest. 

 Mafika Lisiii ( Le .Souvenir) — rock-like granaries. 

 A farm called Ha Lchakoc. "at the Flint's " onl\- describes 



the fanner's character ! 

 J.crihc, Chief Jonathan Molapo's ])lace in Xorthern Bastito- 



land, means "Nodding " head, or stick. (/. Seribi, south 



of Fraticistown. 

 ButJie-bittlic — "lying down," cf. the mountain to an animal. 

 Maseru — sandstone. 

 Malitti (mountains) — com])anions, or i)uzzles. cf. Molo- 



polole. a tangle. 

 Maletstniyaiie (Falls). I'sit is the 1 )tttch y/'/V.;,- iiiotsii is an 



arrow. (•/. Tsohi, a pointed hill near Umtata. 

 Tliaba 'Nchii is the black mountain. 



Tliaba Cliicha. Palsoa —nnmd. da])ple(l (with bush), etc. 

 Taba Nkitlit is the big mountain in Kaffir. 



1 must take a leaf out of my friend Mr. Fettman's book, and 

 continue this wide subject of place-names some other time. 



Those that we have considered, chiefly from South Africa, 

 \vill give us a lead for others further north. 



I shrank from contributing a paper which must seem too 

 little tinished, but the subject is so large as to be beyond the 

 power of one man, even in many years, since Bantu comprises 182 

 languages and iiy dialects, and ideally a work on Bantti place- 

 names would not be completed till all such were recorded, with 

 the meaning in the dialects which had provided them — obviously 

 an impossible task for one man. 1 give therefore what I have 

 to offer at present, in the hope that those from many parts of 

 Africa who have the patience to follow my remarks may help, 

 with local knowledge and kindly criticism, to correct my stigges- 

 tions from the philological side, and to fix the derivation of 

 names where I have failed or erred. 



