[Banga], the Hindu name for the Delta of the Ganges.
[Ban`galore] (180), the largest town in Mysore, and the capital; stands high; is manufacturing and trading.
[Banghis], a low-caste people in the Ganges valley.
[Bangk`ok] (500), the capital of Siam, on the Menam; a very striking city; styled, from the canals which intersect it, the "Venice of the East"; 20 m. from the sea; the centre of the foreign trade, carried on by Europeans and Chinese; with the royal palace standing on an island, in the courtyard of which several white elephants are kept.
[Bangor] (9), an episcopal city in Carnarvon, N. Wales, with large slate quarries; a place of summer resort, from the beauty of its surroundings.
[Bangorian Controversy], a controversy in the Church of England provoked by a sermon which Hoadley, bishop of Bangor, preached before George I. in 1717, which offended the sticklers for ecclesiastical authority.
[Bangweo`lo], a lake in Equatorial Africa, discovered by Livingstone, and on the shore of which he died; 150 m. long, and half as wide; 3690 ft. above sea-level.
[Banian days], days when no meat is served out to ships' crews.
[Banjari], a non-Aryan race in Central India, the carriers and caravan-conductors of the region.
[Banim, John], Irish author, a native of Kilkenny, novelist of Irish peasant life on its dark side, who, along with his brother Michael, wrote 24 vols. of Irish stories, &c.; his health giving way, he fell into poverty, but was rescued by a public subscription and a pension; Michael survived him 32 years (1798-1842).