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  • He thought of returning to Pasig, for his banka was the swifter of the two boats, but unluckily he saw another boat coming from the river and made out the gleam of caps and bayonets of the Civil Guard.

    The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878

  • The next morning I helped some locals repair a banka.

    The Dancing Lady Matthew A. Hamilton 2011

  • The next morning I helped some locals repair a banka.

    The Dancing Lady Matthew A. Hamilton 2011

  • The banka repaired, me, Clifford, and Clifford's crew settled in a nipa hut.

    The Dancing Lady Matthew A. Hamilton 2011

  • The banka repaired, me, Clifford, and Clifford's crew settled in a nipa hut.

    The Dancing Lady Matthew A. Hamilton 2010

  • The banka repaired, me, Clifford, and Clifford's crew settled in a nipa hut.

    The Dancing Lady Matthew A. Hamilton 2011

  • The next morning I helped some locals repair a banka.

    The Dancing Lady Matthew A. Hamilton 2010

  • “Gnaet Gahka Poccnn” is actually “beel-yet banka Russia” which means, literally, “ticket from the Russian bank.”

    Curious Lucre: Russia – The Bleat. 2009

  • Now the counterbalance of that is to have something like a federal export-import banka bank that insures foreign purchasesthat says if you go to, say, Indonesia and they take your assets away from you, well, at least they guarantee you will get your cost back.

    Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009

  • Now the counterbalance of that is to have something like a federal export-import banka bank that insures foreign purchasesthat says if you go to, say, Indonesia and they take your assets away from you, well, at least they guarantee you will get your cost back.

    Creative Capitalism Michael Kinsley with Conor Clarke 2009

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