2. Koraquas (Kora, Korana), north-east frontier, on the upper part of the Orange River.—In the more favourable localities the Koraquas are the tallest and best-looking men of the Hottentot stock. On the other hand, the Koras of the Hartebeest River, who formerly possessed, but have since lost their cattle, "exhibit the obvious process by which the Bushmen race have been originally driven back from the pastoral state, to that of the huntsman and robber."—Thompson's Travels in Southern Africa.—Prichard, vol. ii. p. 274.
3. Namaquas, separated from the Koranas by the Saabs. Occupants of the lower part of the Orange River, i. e. Little Namaqualand to the south, and Great Namaqualand to the north of its mouth.
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SAABS.
Locality.—The country between the Roggeveld and the middle portion of the Orange River; preeminently a Karroo.
Habits.—Hunters.
Language.—Wholly or nearly unintelligible to the other Hottentots.
Area.—Encroached upon the Koranas, who are their deadly enemies, and continually at war with them.
Are the Dammaras Kaffre or Hottentot? This has already been asked.
On the authority of Mr. Barrow, Prichard corrects Vater and Maltebrun for making the Dammaras Hottentot instead of Kaffre. The term, however, is a geographical rather than an ethnological one, comprising the tribes inhabiting those parts to the north and south of Waalvisch Bay, which are marked in the maps as sterile country, and lying between Benguela (where the languages belong to the Congo class of the Kaffre languages), and Namaqualand, where the inhabitants are Hottentots.
Now, geographically speaking, the Dammaras fall into two divisions: a,[180] the Dammaras of the Plains, or cattle Dammaras, and b, the Hill Dammaras. These latter inhabit the parts to the north and north-east of Namaqualand, and are Namaqua Hottentots. The former only belong to the Kaffre division, and extend as far north as 17° south latitude.