ǂNūǃgarib
The name Cradock River also found on some cards and given in 1815 by the visiting missionary Campbell Travels 342, with which he wanted to honor the governor, never hit. Also the native name and his loan translation in Afrikaans and English (Swart River and Black River) have disappeared. The Noe (Gordon) and Nu (English powder) occur without im plosive signs, is often recorded in Old Cape and is currently in Nama ╪nu = black. The old name is especially heard among the Koranas. Burchell has a suspicion from which the name comes to them. He's 2 31 in a footnote o.m. 'At A Subsequent Period of These Travels, Rocks of the Same Nature and Appearance Were Observed in Abundance Along the Course of the Nugari or Black River, and I AM Bears Among the Natives '. Here's talk of oxidized 'iron clip', 'But Their Most Striking Character Was The Smooth Shining Blackness of Their Surface, Not The That of Iron Polished With Black-Lead'. Whether the old inland name came into this factor in the soil condition, then whether it was adopted in the case of the pale and mud rivers, after the color of the water in flood coil, we can hardly determine today . Anyway, the black coloring pressure was strong enough for a distinctive name. Slead CJ 1973 Gazette 171 Name synonymous names for the upper part of the Orange River based on 'black', also in Bantu languages, and add another Khoekhoen name, viz. Noetzekamma 2923 Larwn, literally 'black water / river'. For the member Gariep 2816 watch there.
