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  • There's only one thing to do: unite Mongo's warring kingdoms, foil Ming's plan and get the girl.

    31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 21: Morning Prof. Ravensdeath 2008

  • They caught him, however before they did, there was one Canton (Mongo's word for the groups/societies therein.) who decided to help Ming (Obviously there is at least one Canton that is bad).

    chsturtle Diary Entry chsturtle 2008

  • Earth and Mongo's being connected by a wormhole instead of spaceships will take some getting used to, but it does make a lot more sense than having Mongo flying all over the galaxy under its own power.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Michael May 2007

  • "It became like an addiction," one pack rat-the most familiar and least interesting group in Mongo's gallery-told Mr. Botha.

    Local Dumpster-Diving Lore: Wealth and Waste Are Wed 2004

  • When such a quarrel arose, a meeting between the rivals was arranged out of the Mongo's hearing; when, throwing off their waist-cloths, the controversy was settled between the female gladiators without much damage.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • Mongo's messengers; but hoped the Cuban captain would permit me to take pacific revenge after my own fashion, inasmuch as my captor -- barring the irons -- had behaved with uncommon civility.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • Mongo's "book-man;" -- I must soon "go to another country;" but, if I did not, I would quickly find the food of Bangalang excessively unwholesome!

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • I waited anxiously either for his return or a message, but as I was unadvised of the Mongo's views and temper in regard to the affray, I thought it well, before dark, to avoid treachery by quitting the river and placing my schooner in a creek with her broadside to the shore.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • Eyes, voice, lungs, fingers and toes were not forgotten; so that when the negro passed from the Mongo's hands without censure, he might have been readily adopted as a good "life" by an insurance company.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • As I was returning to the warehouse from this mortifying interview, I encountered an ancient hag, -- a sort of superintendent Cerberus or manager of the Mongo's _harem_, -- who, by signs, intimated that she wanted the key to the "cloth-chest," whence she immediately helped herself to several fathoms of calico.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

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