Page 576
KAffrarie, * 1.1 or according to Marmol, Quefrerie, took Denomination from the Kaffers, the Natives thereof, which others name Hottentots, by reason of their lameness and corruption of Speech, without either Law or Religion.
Maginus spreads this Countrey along the Sea-Coast, from the West-side of Cabo Negro, lying in sixteen Degrees and fourteen Minutes, to Cape of Good Hope, or Cabo de bona Esperansa; and from thence up Northward to the River Magnice, otherwise call'd St. Esprit, but with what ground of reason, we must leave to de determin'd.
Sanutus begins Kaffrarie at the Mountains of the Moon, near the Tropick of Capricorn, in three and twenty Degrees and a half South Latitude, so along the Western Coast to the Cape of Good Hope: This beginning of Kaffrarie, accord∣ing to most Authors, * 1.2 from that remarkable Boundary, the Tropick of Capri∣corn, hath been indisputably setled; but they spread the end of it, as we said, to the Cape of Good Hope and Zanguebar: Between which Northward, along the Sea-Coast, are none, or very few distinct Kingdoms; and therefore this being the outermost Southern Borders, may not inconveniently be extended to Zan∣guebar; so that the whole Tract lying Southward of Zanguebar, and the King∣dom of Monomotapa, are to be understood in the general Name of Kaffrarie. So then, according to this last limiting, it hath on the East and South, the Indian, and in the West, the Ethiopick-Sea, which meet together to the Southward of the Cape of Good Hope, and on the North at Mataman and Monopotapa.
This Countrey so Bounded, lieth encompassed in the North with those high, cold, bushy, and sharp Mountains of the Moon, always cover'd with Snow; nevertheless it hath about the Cape in some places, several large and pleasant Valleys, into which flow divers Rivulets from the Hills.
It is not divided into any particular or known Kingdoms, yet inhabited by several People; some Govern'd by Kings, others by Generals, and some are without any Government at all. We will give you a glimpse of them in their Customs and Natures, as far as any Discovery hath hitherto given us any in∣formation, and that from the hands of such as for some time lived on the Spot.
The chiefest People hitherto discover'd in this Southerly part of Africa, are the Gorachouqua's, Goringhaiqua's, Goringhaikona's, Kochoqua's, Great and Little Kari∣guriqua's, Hosaa's, Chaniouqua's, Kobona's, Sonqu's, Namaqua's, Heusaqua's, Brigou∣dins, and Hankumqua's; the eight first neighbor the Cape, and the farthest not above threescore miles from it.
The three first, viz. Gorachouqua's and Goringhaiqua's have their Dwellings within four or five hours Journey of the Great Cape; but the Gorinhaikona's, or Water-men, are within a quarter of an hours walk from thence.