re: I should have placed a coma after bongo,
A bongo is a dugout canoe and a large canoe at that. I first learned of this while exploring Mayan cities on the Yucatan Peninsula like Tulum, which is on the coast. In Venezuela I saw a bongo which they said could carry over 30 people (if memory serves me rightly).
I believe that dugout canoes were commonly named bongos and went by that name mainly in Central and South America.