Draft:Amaqua

The !Amaǁua (or Amaqua meaning "others", or Omaqua and later renamed Portugies, ) were a Khoi-Khoi ethnic group and a branch of the Cochoqua KhoeKhoe nation incorrectly believed to be a branch of the /Khaus-Nama (Chauqua or Kauqua), descendants of a undocumented union between the Khoi-Khoi and the Portuguese . This is the earliest recorded union between Europeans and the Khoi-Khoi which is dated to the late 16th century upon the arrival of the first Europeans, five Portuguese sailors whom absconded from a Portuguese ship that had anchored at St Helena Bay. These five sailors were the first to intermarry into the Khoi-Khoi of the shores of the Cape of Good Hope and thus the Cleophas, Philander, Titus, Manuel and Domingo clans became the first family clans among the Khoi-Khoi to be identified by surnames. The Amaqua inhabited the lower Berg River beginning from the immediate area surrounding Hopefield, extending north wards to the lower Olifantsriver with clans living spread out as close as Langebaan and as far as Saldanha Bay and St Helena Bay and their the main kraal being roughly 3 kilometers outside of Hopefield, on a farm known as [[Portugeesche Fountain].