Kanna South

Kannaland was a name used by Cape settlers for parts of the Little Karoo, the dry valleys lying between the Swartberg and the mountains of the southern coast. Its bounds were never fixed, but the name was familiar in the eighteenth century. Khoekhoe communities and San hunter-gatherers lived in this country before colonial farms spread inland. In 1689 Isaac Schrijver's trading expedition crossed the Little Karoo and the Swartberg on its way to seek livestock from the Inqua farther north.