Also caama, kama, khama (kgama). [Given by Burchell as the Hottentot name, but app. now current in Sechuana (Lloyd, Three Great African Chiefs, 18).] The hartebeest, a South African antelope (Alcelaphus caama).
1824. Burchell, Trav., II. 81, note. The Hartebeest of the Cape Colony, called Caama (or Kaama) by the Hottentots.
1834. Penny Cycl., II. 90/1. The caama … inhabits the plains of South Africa.
1866. Livingstone, Last Jrnls. (1873), I. vi. 157. Much spoor of elands, zebras, gnus, kamas.
1883. J. Mackenzie, Day-dawn in Dark Places, 48. In the distance we sometimes descried the sly khama (hartebeest).
