SOMM 1>LA{ i:-NA.Ml-:s OF ISOU). CjOJ 



\\;'.s <^i\cn to I he jjlacc l)ec;niM. of ilic fu,uitivc' .<;rnu])S. and tlicse 

 would necessarily have l)een -mall, li.'cau.^e tlie hughes cm\iU1 not 

 acct>inniodate large hands of men. 



Those who esca]>ed inlo the mountains were ruthlessly 

 hunted down hy the \'ictoi>. The name t^'iijiHiqara .2ives a traj^ic 

 picture of what liappened. and at ilie same time enlarj^es our 

 knowledi^e of tlie lan^uai^e. We meet with tlie same name near 

 Main, Engcoho. The verh iikfi-fuiord means to hieak (jff hranches 

 for firewood, 'idiere is. however, another verh (not given in the 

 dictionar}- ) iiku-ijcjogfja meanin.g to shoot, or throw, at random, 

 and would he used were fugitives escape into a hush and cannot 

 be seen, and the pursuers hurl assegais, or shoot at ran<lom it\ 

 the hope of hitting. Apparemly many Raeas were killed here in 

 this \va}'. 



The Xokouxa streaiu. tiowing )jast Tsolo village. LilbO owes 

 its name to the aftermath of this great defeat. A large number 

 of the Bacas seems to have escaped to the (ioqwana Plateau, and to 

 have made their way to the rocky ridge of the eastern slo])es. 

 uliich would afford many good hiding-places. Here they were 

 discovered, but could only be flislodged with difticu1t\' on account 

 of the rocks. The verb ukiixokcuj.ra means " to irritate hy prod- 

 ding.'" and it is s[)ecially used ffir ])rodding at a snake with a long 

 stick. This nrocess of ])rodding out fugitives at the i)oint of the 

 assegai was carried on for some weeks, until the ridge was e\en- 

 tually cleared. 



One of the leaders, by name Noudsaba, escaped to an adjoin- 

 ing pointed hill, and evaded discovery for a time, but the avenging 

 bands soon found his hiding-] )lace. and he and his followers died 

 fighting. The hil! and the stream are honoured with his name. 



This interesting series of ])lace-names owu'ng their origin 

 directlv to Tshaka's invasion give us some idea of the u])heaval 

 caused bv this great warrior. It surely is but an indication of a 

 much larger series of i)lace-nanies to be found in the track ot his 

 invading army from the Natal P>order. It would be an interesting 

 studv to find all the i)laces which ])er])etuated the achievements of 

 his followers, for these nmst be traceable in the ])lace-names as 

 far north as 1 )elagoa I'.a\. and acr<:s> to (iri(|ua country in the 

 west, and llarotse countiy iri the north, an area covering about 

 i()C).(JOO st|uare miles. 



(^)uite a number of other name- which ol)viously are traceable 

 to a warlike firigin probably are (\uv to ])etty tribal wars and raids. 

 1 have tried as far as possible to classify these se])arately, and I 

 think all belonging to the T-b.aka jieriod are correctl}- classified. 

 One or two of those which 1 am now about to luention are a little 

 doubtful, and iua\ also beioiig to the da\s of tlie invasion, but on 

 the whole T think all take origin in the wars of a later ])eriod. 

 Thus the Luishaba drift acroses the Umtata River was often ti.'^ed 

 by raiders. The word mean- "an cneni\ ." The XaJninc sti-eain 

 is the boundar\- between the I'oinlomisi and the I'ondos. IMie 

 Pondomisi u-ed from time to time to raid the I'ondos and carry 



