Gouriqua

The Gouriqua were Khoekhoe people of the southern Cape, associated with the Gouritz River and the country around Mossel Bay. In 1488 the Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias anchored in the bay to take on water, encountering the people who lived along this coast. In the seventeenth century expeditions from the Dutch Cape settlement travelled east to meet Khoekhoe communities. A party under Hieronymous Cruse visited the Gouriqua at the Gouritz River in 1667, after passing through Hessequa country.