What is "dithakong"

"The town of Leetakoo", 1801 painting
by
Samuel Daniell]] Dithakong is the name of a place east of Kuruman in the Northern Cape, South Africa, which had been a major destination for several of the earliest nineteenth century expeditions from the Cape to the interior of the subcontinent. In colonial literature the name is often rendered in such ways as Litakun, Litakoo, or Lattakoo.