 | Theophilus Hahn - 1881 - 192 pagina’s
...hitherto its roots have not been found either in the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Hottentot, the Arabic, or the Sichuana languages, although sought for by...missile or projectile of any kind, referring to the well-known weapon of the Hottentot as well as of the Kaffer, may favour the idea of its Arabic origin,... | |
 | Theophilus Hahn - 1881 - 176 pagina’s
...hitherto its roots have not been found either in the Portuguese, the Dutch, the Hottentot, the Arabic, or the Sichuana languages, although sought for by...missile or projectile of any kind, referring to the well-known weapon of the Hottentot as well as of the Kaffer, may favour the idea of its Arabic origin,... | |
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... apparently lost), and applied to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of the Cape by the early Portuguese settlers on the coast ; but the meaning of the term it would seem almost impossible to trace, as hitherto its roots have not been found either... 