Lexicographical Neighbors of Gobangs
Literary usage of Gobangs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1839)
"The river is like a broad, clear mirror, over which the little gobangs are ...
On such a night why may not the gobangs of Bruni be thought to rival the ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1886)
"I interrogated Hassan as to the white man's name, but could get no further
information than that the stranger had thirty men and two gobangs, and that he ..."
3. Oral English in Secondary Schools by William Palmer Smith (1913)
""gobangs" (canoes) were speedily launched, we both getting into the leading one.
We were followed by three others, in one of which was an influential Hadji. ..."
4. North Borneo: Explorations and Adventures on the Equator by Frank Hatton, Joseph Hatton (1886)
"I interrogated Hassan as to the white man's name but could get no further
information than that the stranger had thirty men and two gobangs, and that he ..."
5. North Borneo: Explorations and Adventures on the Equator by Frank Hatton, Joseph Hatton (1886)
"We sat thus for nearly three hours, talking over the matter of procuring "
gobangs," or dugouts, and from a Hadji trading up the river I obtained two. ..."
6. The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas by George Shepard Chappell, Walter E. Traprock, G.P. Putnam's Sons (1921)
"Every evening we opened fresh gourds of hoopa and made large inroads into our
stores of pai, pickled gobangs and raw crawfish. ..."
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