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Definition of Dongas
1. donga [n] - See also: donga
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dongas
Literary usage of Dongas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic by Ernest Henry Shackleton (1909)
"... A Question of Route: lee dongas: Nearing the Coast: A Barranca: Severe Climbing :
Our Unhappy Lot: A Double Detonator: Mawson in a Crevasse : Afternoon ..."
2. Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon by Alice Blanche Balfour (1895)
"LETTER V Journey to Basutoland—The Presidential Coach—Birds—Thaba-n-chu— Drift
on the Caledon River—Maseru native dress—Basuto Hills— dongas — Absence of ..."
3. Through the Zulu Country: Its Battlefields and Its People by Bertram Mitford (1883)
"The ground is high and full of dongas and stones, and the soldiers did not see
us till we were right upon them. They fought well—a lot of them got up on the ..."
4. Report of the Geological Survey of Natal and Zululand: First-third and Final by Natal (South Africa). Geological Survey, Natal (South Africa), Natal Surveyor-general's Department, Geological survey (1907)
"In this area the dip of the beds can be seen in the dry dongas and creeks as far
east ... These are mostly natural exposures in the dongas and creek beds, ..."
5. The History of the Boer War by Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe (1901)
"The Mountain Battery assiduously shelled the dongas, and the long-range guns ...
The Durhams took breath in the dongas near the foot of the ridge and fixed ..."
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