Steve is correct. Omuramba Omatako is Herero for "dry river". The name of the mountains is derived from the word for "buttocks", but you could have fooled me. Keith ------ Original Message ------ Received: 10:51 PM EDT, 03/21/2015 From: Steve Hayes via <south-africa@rootsweb.com> To: south-africa@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Omataka On 22 Mar 2015 at 11:08, Pat Frykberg via wrote: > Can any one tell me about this please. It's a word that lies in my memory of > Namibia in the 1930s. Again from memory with no facts, it is associated with a > family who arrived at Neuras in a wagon and outspanned for the night. Sort > of gypsies? . In my memory are the words "omataka boers" Love some real info. > thanks Patricia Frykberg (aka Pat) I seem to recall an Omuramba Omatako that was a kind of dry watercourse used by taders and hunters to travel north-east from central Namibia to the Okavango. And it became the Shoshongo Dum somewhere along its course. It starts near two distinct concical hills called Omatako, which can be seen from the road to Otjiwarongo. I'd look up something i once wrote about it, but my web browser is taking forever to load, so I'll send this off and come back to it when it's loaded. 10 minutes later http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com/2013/03/where-on-earth-is-shoshongo-dum.html or http://tinyurl.com/l7oal2y and https://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/from-shakawe-to-maun-via-lake-ngami/ or http://tinyurl.com/l4qgko7 -- Steve Hayes E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message