donga

• The river-bed, or donga--to use the conveniently short South African term--is half a mile east of Dundee, the ground sloping easily toward it; while on the other side the watershed rises, slowly at first, afterward more rapidly, for a mile or more, to the ridge occupied by the Boers, which the road to Landman's crosses at a depression called Smith's Nek. —  Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900
• The donga was strewn with dead and dying English In the meantime the younger brother Fritz was tending a soldier with a terrible wound in the head. —  The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service
• At last, observing the enemy in a donga, they challenged, and were met by the answer, "For God's sake, don't fire; we're the Town Guard." —  Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege
• A mounted infantry picket of three men was away across the donga, watching the road towards Lombard's Nek. —  Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege
• Those who had taken shelter behind the rocks and in the donga were all made prisoners. —  In the Shadow of Death

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