Lexicographical Neighbors of Pongas
Literary usage of Pongas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1861)
"Dr. Caswell, the zealous friend of the pongas Mission from the outset, ...
The mission on the river pongas, in West Africa, (IS0 miles northwest of Sierra ..."
2. Foreign Slave Trade: Abstract of the Information Recently Laid on the Table by African Institution (London, England), England African Institution (London (1821)
"A considerable part of these papers is occupied with the particulars of an outrage
committed by the slave-traders on the Rio pongas on a British officer and ..."
3. Excursions in Western Africa: And Narrative of a Campaign in Kaffir-land, on by James Edward Alexander (1840)
"... Accident —Slave-dealing in the Rio pongas—Slave Attachment— Gunnery—Flogging—What
Jack thinks of it—The Coast of Guinea—Anchor off Cape Coast Castle. ..."
4. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1832)
"The resources offered by the pongas are few, without proceeding a great distance;
... About four miles north of Mud-bar is another entrance of the pongas, ..."
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