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Saldanier S. Afr. Hist.|sældəˈnɪə(r)|
Also Saldanhar |-ˈɑː(r)|.
[Afrikaans, f. the name of Saldanha Bay in Cape Province (cf. prec.).]
A member of a Hottentot group that, in the seventeenth century, inhabited the region of Saldanha Bay; an African cattle-dealer.
[1607W. Keeling in R. Raven-Hart Before Van Riebeck (1967) 36 Saldanians alias Cafares.] 1838D. Moodie tr. J. van Riebeck's Jrnl. in Record i. 16 In the evening some of the Saldania Ottentoos came to the Fort... These two Saldaniers were much bolder and livelier men than the Strandlopers who daily live with us, but still having the same language and clothing. Ibid. 22 The Saldaniers..lay in thousands about Salt River with their cattle in countless numbers. 1900A. H. Keane Boer States p. xviii, Saldaniers, originally the Hottentots of the grassy Saldanha Bay district, who had always plenty of cattle to sell to the Dutch East India Company's people; later, any native livestock dealers. 1972Stand. Encycl. S. Afr. V. 606/2 As soon as they arrived in South Africa the Portuguese..followed by the Dutch colonists in 1652, came into contact with a yellowish brown pastoral people at the Cape. The colonists at first called them Kaapmans and Saldanhars, but later on the name ‘Hottentot’..became firmly established. |