Skim rented a small place surrounded by a hedge of bonga palms, and here he entertained the village royally.
The road up to the town was lined with nipa houses, shaded with banana-trees and bonga palms.
The Government of Lisbon has since given Bonga the honorary title of Captain, by way of coaxing him to own their authority; but he still holds his stockade.
Two months afterwards Mariano's stockade was burned, the garrison having fled in a panic; and as Bonga declared that he did not wish to fight with this Governor, with whom he had no quarrel, the war soon came to an end.
Bonga once caught a captain of the Portuguese army, and forced him to perform the menial labour of pounding maize in a wooden mortar.
Asking the Makololo whence they came, Bonga rejoined, "Why do you come from my enemy to me?
On our acquainting Bonga with the object of the expedition, he remarked that we should suffer no hindrance from his people in our good work.
In the great forest of M'Bonga the rubber vines are not equally distributed.
The westward part of the forest of M'Bonga projects a spur of the pestiferous rubber-bearing land into the isthmus of healthy woods.
The forest of M'Bonga has great tracts of this boggy, pestiferous land, dreadful sloughs of despond caverned with foliage, and by some curse the rubber vines entrench themselves with these.
A great man-ape haunted this part of the forest of M'Bonga like an evil spirit.
Bonga had gone with a small assortment of goods to build and pass the summer there.
She adds: "The son of this Bonga was the late Bonga, who died as a comme, at Lake Winnepec, of the Fond du Lac Department.
Bonga had been sent to notify the Milles Lacs, Sandy Lake, and Leoch Lake Indians to come to the payments.
The present Stephen Bonga of Folleavoine, a trustworthy trader, is the grandson of this Bonga--Robinson's freed slave.
The bonga girl recognised them at once, but they did not know who she was.
The bonga then transformed her into a bonga like himself, and carried her off.
The Jugi by this time was aware that a bonga was trying to frighten him, so becoming angry he cut down the bamboo at the root, and taking it away made a fiddle out of it.
He now and again visited, when on his rounds, the house of the bonga girl's brothers, and the strains of the fiddle affected them greatly.
Through course of time the bonga girl's family became very poor, and her brothers on one occasion came to the chief's house on a visit.
When all the household were absent at their labours in the fields, the bonga girl emerged from the bamboo fiddle, and prepared the family meal.
It was brought to an end in the following year, and the treaty of Bonga or Banga was signed, by which the Dutch were recognized as protectors.
The kingdom of Boni was successfully attacked in 1824, and in August of that year the Bonga treaty was renewed in a greatly modified form.
The Bonga Kora pointed to a shelf for her to place them on but when she went to do so and was well inside his house he closed the door and shut her in.
The Bonga Kora pointed them out to her lying on a shelf and she took them away.
Sing bonga is the sun god; the spirits of ancestors are bongas, there are bongas of the hills, streams and the forest; others are like fairies and take human form.
She went to the bonga Kora and called "Bonga Kora give a me mirror and comb that we may adorn our hair with Mirjin flowers.
So the next night when the Prince was asleep a beautiful bonga maiden was brought to the prison and when he awoke he saw her sitting by his side.
With the bonga is thrown in a powder of quick lime.
This fruit is not that of the betel or buyo, but of the bonga (Tagal bunga), or areca palm.
The expedition witnessed a battle at Mazaro, between Bonga and the Portuguese, when Dr Livingstone, landing, found himself in the sickening smell and among the mutilated bodies of the slain.
The report is that Bonga Dono is dead, and that he died the day before 191 the kinges arivall; and yett it is not published till the feasting be past for joy of the kinges marriadg and his safe retorne.
And there was delivered to Bonga Sammas man, for acco.
And Bonga Samma sent me a leane pork for a present.
And sowne after came news that ij English and i Duch shipp weare arived and at an ancor in Cochie; whereof I sent word to Tonomon Samma, Bonga Samma, Semi Dono, and Taccamon Dono, per our jurebasso.
The catechu which is obtained in India from the Bonga differs from that obtained from the Acacia Catechu and is a tonic analogous to rhatany and cinchona.
The same phenomena occur in certain persons after eating palmito salad or the tender central portion of the bongaand of other palms.
These properties are readily understood when we consider that the lime is antacid, the bonga astringent and tonic and the betel aromatic and stimulant.
Now in course of time the Bonga girl's family became very poor, and her brothers on one occasion came to the chief's house on a visit.
A Bonga is the presiding spirit of a certain kind of rice land; Doms and Hadis are low-caste aborigines, whose touch is considered polluting.
The Bonga then transformed her into a Bonga like himself, and carried her off.
The Bonga girl recognised them at once, but they did not know who she was.
The Jogi by this time felt sure that a Bonga was trying to frighten him, so becoming angry he cut down the bamboo at the root, and taking it away made a fiddle out of it.
When all the household were absent at their labours in the fields, the Bonga girl used to come out of the bamboo fiddle, and prepared the family meal.
He now and then visited, when on his rounds, the house of the Bonga girl's brothers, and the strains of the fiddle affected them greatly.
When the bonga is wanting, the Indians employ the bark of the guava, or of the antipolo (Artocarpus).
With a cheer from the boys her crew shoved off and the bonga heeling to the breeze headed for the palm-fringed shore.
The dripping crew of the bonga followed them carrying the boys’ smart, new baggage on their heads.
The men in the bonga were lowering the sails as he spoke and when they had them tied in gaskets each took an oar while the captain ran to the stern with a long sweep.
Suddenly, at a cry from the man in the stern, they stopped work with their oars and the bonga tossed up and down on the racing crests of the big waves while they “backwatered.
Frank dreamed that Rogero in an airship fashioned like a bonga was pursuing them through space and that although they speeded up the Golden Eagle to her fastest flight, the evil-faced Nicaraguan gained on them rapidly.
The boys felt the bonga lifted up and up on the crest of the big combers and a second later they were swept forward, it seemed at a rate of sixty miles an hour.
Harry as the bonga scudded along so close to the shore that the roar of the heavy surf as the big waves broke on the yellow beach could be distinctly heard.
The children were divided into pairs, and Sing-Bonga set before them various kinds of food to choose for their sustenance before starting out into the world; and the fate of their descendants depended on their choice.
Risley states, [549] stands Sing-Bonga or the sun, a beneficent but ineffective deity who concerns himself but little with human affairs.
Their reverence for the caste panchayat is shown by their solemn form of oath, 'Sing-Bonga on high and the Panch on earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bonga" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
