NAMAQUALAND  , a region of

south-western Africa, extending along the west coast over 600 m. from Damaraland (22° 43' S.) on the north to 31° S., and stretching inland 8o to 350 M . It is divided by the lower course of the Orange river into two portions—Little Namaqualand to the south and Great Namaqualand to the north . Little Namaqualand forms part of Cape Colony (q.v.), and Great Namaqualand is the southern portion of German South-West Africa (q.v.) . The people of Namaqualand are the purest surviving type of Hottentots, and number some twenty to thirty thousand .