Khorogauquas. Both theses tribes are placed northward of th ||
Namaaquas, where the Kafir tribe of Damaras are now found.
10. The Koopmans, named after a chief. 11. The Hessaquas,
who were the richest of all the Hottentot tribes in herds and
flocks. 12. The'Soriquas to the eastward of the Cape. 13. The
Dunquas. 14. The Damaquas. Ï5. The Guaros or GaUir-
quas. 16. The Houteniquas. 17. The Khantouers. 18. The
Heykoms, who are said to reach as far towards the northeast
as Tierra de Nataly and who must, if this account is
correct, have inhabited the country now occupied by the
Amakosah.*
It is impossible to identify these tribes of Hottentots in all
instances with those which now exist, or to trace the history
of such as have become extinct ; and until lately our knowledge
of the nations belonging to this race was'faT from accurate
and complete. Even Professor Vater has committed a
mistake, which has been followed by Malte Brun, in reckoning
the Damaras as a Hottentot tribe- That people are now
well known to be a divisionuof the Kafirs or Bechûanas, 'as
indeed they were described to be by Mr. Barrow; The tribes
of Hottentots now, or until within a short period in existence
Tnay be briefly enumerated as "follows :
1. Hottentots within the colony.
2. The Gonaaqnas to the eastward, near the Great Pish
River. These people are now nearly, if not entirely extinct,
or lost as a tribe, and their country is occupied by the Kosah
Kafirs. They were formerly the most wealthy andHhe most
civilized of the Hottentot race.
3. The Kora or Koraaqua.
4. The Namaaqua.
5. The Saabs, Bushmen on Bosjesmen. These people were
supposed by Lichtenstein to" be a distinct race from the Hottentots,
or at least to speak a language wholly separate;
Their speech is in fact unintelligible to all other Hottentot
tribes.^ Their utterance is performed with the peculiar clucking,
so characteristic of the Hottentots, and of which only some
* Kolben’s Natural History of the Capeof Good Hope, 1719. Astley’s Voyages,
VoU iii,
-j- Thompson’s Travels in Africa.'
KORAAQUA HOTTENTOTS.
of the Kafir tribes partake, .and«,that in aMsBght degree. But
■fh^l^hguage^fcthe - S'aUbs is. a cognate, though remote, dia-
of the Hottentot.-apeech ; and“ it :is . now universally
agreed, that4he Bushmen are a-frib^f though1 a very miserable
and deeradfid one;vof the Hottentot race.
| I shall add""some remarks on the thrij^. last-mentioned
tribes-efthe Hottentot ?Eace.' ,
!@#Of the Kota Hottentots.
The Korana, Hottentots,^ properly the Kora or Koraaqua,
are a numerous' and.,id^rinct-<,.t^3b1epJ©f>.; the Hottentot; race.'
They have thp^featprcS' common to* the whot©j nation, but arg
Ja-^eUi. stature than .tie-' Bushmen,rand to alb
other tribest-qf the same stock. “ Many are tall, with finely-
shaped heads and prominent features, and haye«Un air qf ease,
and good humour which is; yqry prdpossessing^i^They. .are a
mild,, indolent, and unenterprising, race, friendL^^p( Strangers.^
and inclined to cultivate peace with-all the^n^ejghbours except
the Bushmen,, to wards whom they bear the most,: deadly anic
mosity. -Their wars with that people are prosecuted with, such
rancour, that quarter is seldom given,b„y either party to old
or young. The weapons^of both 'these .tribesg are: similar, but
those of thfi Koras are. superior in workmanship, and. their
poisoned arrows are..occasionally feathered,”*
The Kora women have seldom more than fo,ur or fi^ei,children.
If they, have twins, one of them is destroyed,, as among,
the. Bushmen. ,
The Koras are continually roaming from place to place,
according as the want of pasturage or caprice may dictate :
their hut's, composed of a few sticks, and a covering of mats,
are easily carried on their pack-oxen, which arev. docile and
well-trained.
Their language differs considerably from that of the Bushmen,
but nearly resembles the dialects of the colonial Hottentots,
and the Namaaquas. They can converse with Hottentots
from the Cape, but fully understand only,such .of the
Bushmen as have been accustomed to visit the colony.
* Thompson,“ Vbl. in p; 32.
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