Citations:bungo

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English citations of bungo

  • 1900, The Great Round World and what is Going on in it, page 253:
    Well indeed do I remember my trip in a bungo. The contract was based upon a sound money equivalent as well as a promise to help the men in getting the canoe over the multiple sandbars that obstructed our way.
  • 1918, Pan American Union, Bulletin, page 95:
    Our canoe, or bungo, which was a large dugout made from a single tree trunk ...
  • 2005, William Harwar Parker, Recollections of a Confederate Naval Officer, Digital Antiquaria (→ISBN), page 159:
    He and a number of others bought a bungo (a large canoe), and in it actually started for San Francisco, a distance of more than three thousand miles. The party chose for leader one Chris. Lilly, a pugilist, who had just before killed a ...