Just as the Zulu belongs to the Kaffre, the Bushman belongs to the Hottentot family—the latter family being a large one; not so large, however, as the former. The present Hottentot districts, wholly surrounded by the Kaffre, lie on the western rather than eastern side of South Africa, and extend from the parts about Valvisch Bay to the Cape; the original population of the last-named locality having become well-nigh extinct.
How has this extinction been effected? In two ways. By the European settlers of the colony—-Dutch and English, English and Dutch; by the Kaffres, who have ever spread southwards. Before these encroachments had taken effect, there were Hottentot tribes on the eastern as well as the western coast, on both sides of South Africa. Now there are none, either on the side of the Pacific, or in the parts about the Cape itself—except (of course) so far as they are mixed up with the colonial population.
The names (all or some) of the extinct branches of the Hottentot family are as follows:—
1. Gunyeman, nearest the Cape.
2. Kokhaqua, north of the Gunyeman.
3. Sussaqua, Saldanha Bay.
4. Odiqua.
5. Khirigriquas, on Elephants’ River.
6. Koopmans.
7. Hessaquas.