A kind of boat used at the South.
The most urgent steps were being taken to press every bungo and canoe to the immediate relief of the people along the coast, in order to embark them without delay.--N. O. Picayune.
·noun A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern U...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
, or bonga A sort of boat used in the Southern States of America, made of the bonga-tree hollowed ...
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