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Sze-Ch'wan and Yun-nan, and the district of Lhorong djong, frontier of Lhasa;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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throngs of trunks covered the volcanic waters;
only the flat djongs float into alien P'o-lu.
—Charles Williams, 'The Departure of Merlin', in Taliessin Through Logres
No idea. Not in OED. I'm going to guess it's Williams's faux-archaic form of 'junk'.
March 22, 2009