Griquas

Griquas, a Hottentot people, South Africa, with a large strain of Dutch blood, hence called Baastards by the Boers. There are two divisions, those of Griqualand West and Griqualand East, both now comprised within Cape Colony, and subject to British administration. At the beginning of the eighteenth century they already formed numerous tribal groups settled in the Roggevelde uplands, from which they were driven beyond the Orange river by the English settlers about the year 1820.

Here some established themselves in the present district of Griqualand West, while others moved up the right bank of the Orange, and in 1852 crossed the Drakenberg range and settled under their leader, Adam Kok, in the district of Kafirland, south of Natal, now known as Griqualand East. They are a harmless, industrious people, mostly Christians of Dutch speech, but physically of unmistakable Hottentot type. (Livingstone, Missionary Travels, 1852; Silva White, Handbook of South Africa, 1880.)