Khoikhoin

Where sources are used in recognisable form, they function on at least three levels: sometimes they are "informal" by nature, like the Great Trek diaries of Susanna Smit; on other occasions they are subjected to transference, as happens in the case of the well-known seventeenth-century figure of Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch), who acted as interpreter between the Dutch and the indigenous Khoikhoin until she became the victim of both groups.

3 The Khoikhoin word kamma means "water," which refers to a creation myth in which the first woman (in Africa) emerged from water; in Afrikaans it refers to the realm of the imagination, of illusion, and of fiction.