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  • Cabe aquresaltar la gran tranformacin en el panorama Alexander Fleming una sustancia bactericida producida por un hongo existente en el aire atmosfrico, el Penicillum Notatum.

    Chapter 9 1991

  • Esta sustancial denominada Penicilina, que represent un legtimo progreso en la teraputica, se origino de un humilde hongo o moho.

    Chapter 9 1991

  • Seated there, they clothed him in the _ccapac hongo_ [102], placed the _suntur paucar_ in his hand, gave him the other insignia of Inca, and the priests raised him on their shoulders.

    History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

  • Wahuma chief of Abyssinian stock, and here I found the petty chiefs quite as extortionate in extorting hongo (tax) as others.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909

  • Wambe sends an impi at daybreak to eat him up, because he has hunted before bringing hongo.

    Maiwa's Revenge Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • I intimated that I was prepared to present him with 'hongo,' that is, blackmail, and that I hoped to do a little trade with him in ivory, of which I heard he had a great quantity.

    Maiwa's Revenge Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • They should follow those elephants for one half-hour more, then if we failed to come upon them I would abandon the pursuit, and we would go straight to Wambe, chief of the Matuku, and give him hongo. '

    Maiwa's Revenge Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • The Masai shall on no pretence whatever demand _hongo_ (tribute) from any caravan conducted by white men; but promise on the contrary to assist by all means in their power the progress of such caravans, particularly in furnishing them, as far as their supplies allow, with provisions at a fair price.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • The result was the unanimous resolve to permit us to pass through; but they had not yet agreed whether to insist upon the payment of the customary _hongo_, or tribute, exacted from trade-caravans, or to await our spontaneous liberality.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • Some of the loads were given back, but others had been broken open and rifled, and the chief demanded an enormous _hongo_ for permitting Grant to proceed.

    Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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