bungos

We shortly afterwards passed one of the large boats called bungos, that carry down to Greytown the produce of the country and take up merchandise and flour.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

But just at this juncture several hundred healthy Americans landed on the Transit road, and, placing them on one of the lake steamers, together with his old force, General Walker took them up to Granada, sent them ashore in bungos under a heavy fire, told them to do or die, and then paddled out into the lake with the steamer.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

To this point large bungos come up the river, and Don Pedro had been very wishful to get it opened out above for navigation, but had not succeeded.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

When the steamboats were first put on the Lake of Nicaragua, the natives complained that they were charged as much as they were in the bungos, although they got sometimes a week's sailing in the latter, and only one day in the steamboat.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855

The bungos are flat-bottomed boats, about forty feet long and nine feet wide.

The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855