Humcumqua

Humcumqua is a name associated with the Inqua, Khoekhoe herders of the interior beyond the southern Cape mountains. Seventeenth-century accounts place the Inqua north of the coastal Gouriqua and Attaqua peoples. Their cattle and sheep drew the interest of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape. In 1689 an expedition under Isaac Schrijver reached the Inqua leader Hykon, who met the visitors and traded livestock with them.