Landloper

n. a wanderer; a vagabond; a vagrant.

[Not to be confused with landlubber (one who gets queasy on a boat, a lover of land).]

Neighbor Jan has a visitor. A landloper, a swerwer (a drifter), has turned up at his door, with ill-fitting hand-me-down clothes, a bulky suitcase and a loud laugh.

--Dog Heart: A Memoir by Breyten Breytenbach