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Kaams River' runs for most of its length over the farm 'Kew- well' No 9362/1956 and joins the 'Papkuils River'. The 'Pap- Kuils River' flows over the farms 'De Riet' No Gr. 142/1937 which limits 'chewing plain' to the northwest, and about 'Paapkuilsfontein' No. Clw. Q. 8-16, north of and adjacent to 'de reed'. On the south side of 'cold level' is still the farm 'Matjes Kloof' No. Nam. Q. 7-6. Topography forms 'Kaamsrivier', 'Papkuils River', 'The Riet', 'Matjes Gorge', 'Paapkuilsfontein' and 'cold level' a unit. With the exception of 'chewing (plain)', cf. Hott 327-330), there is also a semantic connection between the names 'Matjes (Gorge)', 'Papkuils (River)', 'The reed' and 'Paapkuils (fountain)'. We believe 'KAMS (river)' includes linguistically at these names. 'Reed' is in Nama ╪a- (Kr. We believe the first member of 'KAMS' is the same word, + (k) a-. The second member, viz. -ams, is like Nama AMS = 'mouth' (Kr.-R 4), transferring 'fountain'. 'CAMP' means 'Rietmond', 'Rietfontein'. It seems as if we have a case here again where the Afrikaans or Dutch components of a toponimic core group are the (indirect) translation of the Khoërhoenic component.