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  • And his address is probably bogas also but this is what he give me.

    419 scam crew nailed 2004

  • And his address is probably bogas also but this is what he give me.

    419 scam crew nailed 2004

  • In the margin of his collecting book, Schultes had scratched a few notes concerning the trip, the location of Bora and Andoke villages, the distances between the major rapids, the anticipated length of the journey: “large canoe 26 ft., 4 bogas paddlers, 11 days … small canoe 8 days.”

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • In the margin of his collecting book, Schultes had scratched a few notes concerning the trip, the location of Bora and Andoke villages, the distances between the major rapids, the anticipated length of the journey: “large canoe 26 ft., 4 bogas paddlers, 11 days … small canoe 8 days.”

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Not unfrequently the boatmen (_bogadores_) who navigate the river Magdalena in their _bogas_, or flat boats, drop overboard, and become the prey of the caimans, as sailors on the ocean do of sharks.

    The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

  • There was a blazing fire kindled on a bed of white sand, forward in the bow of the canoe, round which the four bogas, or canoemen, were seated, with three sticks stuck up triangularly over the fire, from which depended an earthen pot, in which they were cooking their suppers.

    Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

  • Marijuana man going to jail marijuana man talks about some bogas charges for marijuana the police are trying to lay on him

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Vnos los que Viuen en las marinas y los otros los que Viuen en las serranias y si tienen alguna paz entre si es por la necesidad qe tienen los Vnos de los otros para sustentar la vida humana, porqe los de la serrania no pueden viuir sin el pescado y la sal y otras cosas y tinajas y platos qe Vienen de otras partes, ni los de la playa pueden Viuir sin el aRoz y algodon qe tienen los serranos y ansi tienen dos opiniones, en lo del prinçipio del mundo y por careçer de letras guardan estos naturales sus antiguedades en los cantares los quales cantan de ordinario en sus bogas como son ysleños con muy buena graçia

    The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Various 1906

  • All this time one of the boys was fast asleep, resting on his folded arms on the gunwale, his head having dropped down on the stem of the boat; but one of the Spanish bogas in the canoe, which was anchored close to us, seeing me gazing at something, now looked in the same direction; the instant he caught the object, he thumped with his palms on the side of the canoe exclaiming, in a loud alarmed tone --

    Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

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