Mambookie

plural Mambookies · alternative Mambuki · alternative Mambucki

1. South AfricaobsoleteSynonym of Mpondo (“a Bantu people group indigenous to South Africa or a member of it”).

   Between the Amatembu and Port Natal lie the Amaponda, or Mambuki (Mambookies)[…]

   1851, Robert Gordon Latham, editor, The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies, →ISBN, page 76

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   Adjoining this nation, towards the north, there is, according to them, a still more warlike and intrepid people, whom they call Mambukis.

   1786, Anders Sparrman, translated by Georg Foster, A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, 2 edition, volume 2, page 147

   [A]s, for instance, at the present day we find the Amakosa and Amatembu branches perfectly distinct from that of the Mambookie.

   1836, Robert Godlonton, Introductory Remarks to a Narrative of the Irruption of the Kafir Hordes Into the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope, A.D. 1834-35, Meurant and Godlonton, page 211

   Proceeding along the coast, the next tribe to the Koossas is one which is called by many different names; that by which it is most generally known is the Gonaaquas, but by the colonists they are usually called Mambuckis.

   1812, Hinrich Lichtenstein, translated by Anne Plumptre, Travels in Southern Africa, volume 1, Henry Colburn, page 298

   Synonyms: Mpondo

alternative Mambuki · alternative Mambucki

1. South Africanot comparableobsoleteSynonym of Mpondo (“of or relating to the people group”).

   He is not a Caffe, but a Mambookie chief, residing about one hundred and twenty miles from Butterworth, in a direct line towards Port Natal.

   1834, Thomas Smith, John Overton Choules, The Origin and History of Missions, page 166

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   The reader, by referring to the map, will perceive that the great range of mountains […] is continued through what is called the Mambookie country, and that of the tribes beyond, as far as the vicinity of Delagoa bay.

   1827, George Thompson, chapter 18, in Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa, volume 2, Henry Colburn, page 203

   Synonyms: Mpondo