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Bongabong
a town in the S. E. part of Luzon, Philippine Islands, with an estimated population of 25,000. It lies in a mountainous district, and attained military importance as the headquarters of a regiment of United States troops.
The town has a municipal government based upon popular election.
Bonito
a fish, thynnus pelamys. It belongs to the family of scomberidæ (mackerels), and is nearly allied to the BONITO tunny. It is found in the Mediterranean, and is a great foe to the flying fish. The belted bonito is the pelamys sarda, and the plain bonito, the alexis vulgaris.
Bonneville
LAKE, a lake that once filled a now desert basin of Utah; at its greatest dimensions had an area of 30,000 square miles, and was 1,000 feet deep.
Bontebok
the pied antelope alcelaphus pygarga), an antelope of South Africa, with white markings on the face, allied to the blesbok.
Bonze
the name given by the Portuguese to any member of the Buddhist priesthood in Japan. Thence the name spread to the priests of the same faith in China and the adjacent regions.
Book of Martyrs
a history of the persecution of Reformers in England, by John Fox.
BOOKPLATE
Book of the Dead
a compilation of the religious literature of Egypt Egypt in 106 chapters. According to Sayce's "Ancient Empires of the East" (1884), it is a collection of inscriptions from the mummy cases, tombs, and demotic writings-the funeral ritual of the Egyptians, setting forth, in mystical language, the adventures of the soul after death and the means of escaping torment.
Booro
one of the Molucca Islands in the Indian Archipelago, W. of Ceram and Amboyna, belonging to the Dutch.
It is oval in shape, 92 miles long and 70 broad. Though mountainous and thickly covered with wood, it is productive, yielding rice, dye woods, etc. Pop. about 15,000.
Booroojird
a town, Persia, province of Irak-ajemi, in a fertile and well cultivated valley. Pop. about 25,000.
Booth
AGNES (MRS. JOHN B.
SHOEFFEL), an American actress, born in Sydney, Australia, in 1846. She made her first American appearance in New York in 1865, becoming later Edwin Forrest's leading lady. She assumed numerous famous rôles with success. She died Jan. 2, 1910.
Booth
JOHN WILKES, an Ameri-
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