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tanga

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A tanga is a pair of briefs consisting of small panels connected by strings at the sides. There are tanga briefs both for men and for women.

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n. 100 tanga equal 1 Tajikistani ruble

Usage examples of tanga.

The Tanga fertilizer company required 140,000 tons of imports to produce 100,000 tons of fertilizer.

There were four excellent ports, and from two of them, Tanga and the capital, Dar-es-Salaam, railways ran far into the interior.

Landing at Tanga on the 4th, it was met by a German force, superior in the art of bush fighting if not in numbers which hurried down from Moschi, and was compelled to re-embark with a loss of 800 casualties.

In May and June the other divisions cleared the Pave and Usambara mountains, reached Handeni and Kangata, and with naval assistance occupied Tanga, Pangani, Sadani Bay, and Bagamoyo in July and August almost without opposition.

He was now in German East Africa and it was his intention to skirt the mountains west of Kilimanjaro, whose rugged peaks he was quite willing to give a wide berth, and then swing eastward along the south side of the range to the railway that led to Tanga, for his experience among men suggested that it was toward this railroad that German troops would be likely to converge.

He had crossed the railroad some distance back and judged that the wounded were being taken to it for transportation to a base hospital and possibly as far away as Tanga on the coast.

She was humiliated and angry--it was long before she would admit it, that she, who prided herself upon her woodcraft, was lost in this little patch of country between the Pangani and the Tanga railway.

You know and I know that we could not reach the Tanga railway on foot.

The consulate in Zanzibar, and Crocker and the Germans in Tanga all assure us that the journey is safe and straightforward, so you are not to worry about me, my dearest one.

The return to the Crater was accomplished without difficulty, and the following day, when the entire party was reassembled, they prepared to separate for the last time: Regensburger, Lukas and the bulk of the porters were to go west across the Serengeti, along the line of the projected railway to Speke Gulf at the foot of Lake Victoria, while Thomas was to head north towards Simba and take the train to the coast, before embarking at Tanga for the return passage.

His hair was long at the back of his head, hanging over his drenched shirt and he could feel that his beard, unshaved since Tanga, had grown again, though this time he knew it must be grey.

At Tanga, Thomas bought some new clothes, and on board ship he visited the barber and tried to fatten himself up.

Roasted haunches of grain fed zorcan, full bowls of rich whipped columa berries, platters of harten liver pates, iced serinfish, and trays of expensive tanga fruit were just a sampling of the offerings.

Landing at Tanga on the 4th, it was met by a German force, superior in the art of bush fighting if not in numbers which hurried down from Moschi, and was compelled to re-embark with a loss of 800 casualties.

In May and June the other divisions cleared the Pave and Usambara mountains, reached Handeni and Kangata, and with naval assistance occupied Tanga, Pangani, Sadani Bay, and Bagamoyo in July and August almost without opposition.