Ovampos

Ovampos, or OVAMBO, also called Otjiherero, an industrious and peaceable Bantu people of the west coast of Africa, inhabiting the country south of the Cunene. Ovampoland is accordingly in the German protectorate, and extends from Damara-land northward to the Portuguese frontier. Some 50 miles from the coast the country rises into a lofty tableland, which is moderately fertile, and then declines to the south and east into the deserts of the Kalahari and the region of Lake Ngami. Many strong indications of copper ore are found in various places. Ivory is still traded in.