Doman (died December 1663) was a Khoikhoi tribesman and interpreter with the Dutch settlers at the Cape of Good Hope. He was one of the first interpreters employed by the Dutch East India Company at their settlement on the Cape. After being taken to Java in 1657 he witnessed the company's subjugation of the native people there and turned against the Dutch. Shortly after his return to Africa, he led his people in the First Khoikhoi-Dutch War of 1659–1660. Unable to storm the company's fort and having been wounded the war ended and Doman returned to Dutch employment. Biography Doman's Khoikhoi name was Nommoa but he is more commonly known by the name the Dutch gave him. Doman's Dutch name may be derived from the Afrikaans "dominee" meaning parson but it might also derive from the Khoikhoi word "domi" meaning voice. He was one of two interpreters employed by the Dutch at the suggestion of their first interpreter, an Khoikhoi chief Autshumato, to act for the Dutch whilst Autshumato was absent from the settlement (the other was Khaik Ana Ma Koukoa, known as Krotoa or Claes Das to the Dutch). Jan van Riebeeck's diarist noted that Doman "seems to be well-disposed towards us" and "is serving the Hon. Company better than anybody else - up to the present at any rate". Rijckloff van Goens, advising van Riebeeck on defence matters, took Doman to Java in the Dutch East Indies in April 1657 where he witnessed how the local people had been forced to submit to Dutch rule. The trip was intended to teach Doman the commercial business of the company but is thought to have caused Doman to understand the threat the Dutch posed to the Khoikhoi way of life and caused him to turn against them. During the trip he witnessed the resistance attempted by the Bantamese against the Dutch in north Java. In order to hasten his return to Africa Doman told the Dutch he intended to convert to Christianity and no longer wanted to live among his people. When he returned Doman clashed frequently with Krotoa, whom he claimed had tried to curry favour with the Dutch and betray her people. Doman was the only voice to speak out when the van Riebeeck took several Khoikhoi leaders hostage in 1658. When Autshumato was banished Krotoa assumed responsibility for the Dutch trade with the local people. When he