Kroomie

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Identifier
1953_SKCPN
Title
Kroomie
Alternative Title
Kroomie
Georeference Sources
K 3226
Is Part Of
Toponymica Hottentotica: A2 (H-Z)
longitude
26.5
latitude
-32.5
Measurement Accuracy
50 km radius
Source
afr Beutler 1752 GM RZA 3 323 '...campeeren by een klijn revier Telloemoe genaamt waarinne een weynig water wierd gevonden...' Swellengrebel H 1776 GM RZA 4 11 '...aan de voet deeser heuvel by een kleyne R. de Karoemo gent., vonden wy een kraal van Caffers...' Ibid. Journaal 1(c) 30 'Caroema'. Pringle T 1835 Sketches 'Kurumo'. Anon 1854 in Wesleyan Methodist Magazine 235 [aangehaal deur Pettman] 'Within sight of the town of Fort Beaufort...stands a mountain range called by the colonists the Kroome Range - a term evidently derived from the native Hottentot name Tcurume'. Hall H 1856 kaart 'Kromme Mountains'. Forbes 1965 PTSA 20 'They [Beutler en geselskap] camped on the west bank of their Telloemoe, called Karoemo by H. Swellengrebel. Kurumo by T. Pringle and now known as the Kroomie'.
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