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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 414 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DONGA , a See also:

Bantu word for a See also:ravine, narrow watercourse or See also:gully formed by the See also:action of See also:water. Adopted by the See also:European residents of See also:South See also:Africa from the See also:Kaffirs, the use of the word has been extended by See also:English writers to ravines or watercourses of the nature indicated in various other parts of the See also:world. It is almost See also:equivalent to the Arabic khor, which, however, also means the dry See also:bed of a stream, or a stream flowing through a ravine. The See also:Indian word See also:nullah (properly a watercourse) has also the same significance. The three words are often used interchange-ably by English writers.

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