What I do like about the above is the splendid manner in which the poet strikes out a new line.
Unfortunately, we Anglo-Indians do not require the kites to enable us to appreciate this fact.
While he was still an infant, the hope of there better providing for a numerous family caused his father to seek a new home on Bayou Teche in Louisiana.
By this time a reply came from the official in Bayou Sara, in which he promised to follow the instructions of the governor as soon as the steamer came in sight, for she had not yet appeared.
It may have been one washed out from some bayou by the high water, which was prevailing at this time, or it may have been the real crocodile.
I t'ink I see der rifer vat der bayou iss on," announced Carl suddenly, pointing ahead and a little to the left.
It was midnight when the automobile and its passengers from Bayou Yamousa rolled into New Orleans.
Matt and Dick set out around the edge of the bayou and were presently upon familiar ground.
Happened to meet a colored brother fishing; I told him I wanted to go to Bayou Yamousa, and the colored brother happened to know the way; also he happened to have a mule and a wagon, and he brought me here.
Why not bear away in the air ship to Bayou Yamousa?
It showed Dashington's reason for coming to Bayou Yamousa, and for asking Matt and his friends to join him there.
Years ago she lived in New Orleans, numbering her followers by hundreds, but was driven away by the police and found refuge on Bayou Yamousa.
Bayou Yamousa for mine, and I'm on the level from this on.
He was moseying along by the bayou and saw the air ship overhead.
Hoax or no, our move is to slant away for Bayou Yamousa, where we intended to go in the first place.
Whistler, you know, used to work on a plantation near Bayou Yamousa.
We'll carry him to the edge of the bayou and see if a little water won't help revive him," said Matt.
The woman's name was Yamousa, and she lived in a hut near a bayou of the same name.
Fate was lowering over the Hawk--destruction was skulking just ahead in the heavy timber below--and Motor Matt and his chums were to look back on that flight to Bayou Yamousa as their last.
Matt did not reply, but he led the way to the door and through it into the dying glow of the fire on the bayou bank.
It seemed to Matt and Dick as though they were again in the hut by the bayou and peering into the smoke arising from the earthen jar under the spell of Yamousa.
In ze smoke I see t'ree, all in ze flying boat zat come to Bayou Yamousa.
The fire had been kindled on a cleared stretch of bayou bank, and not far from it was a log hovel.
Matt and Dick, between them, related their adventures, beginning at Bayou Yamousa.
She threw herself into his arms, and there, before all the Committee of Fire-Eaters of Bayou La Farouche, she kissed him with those amorphous lips I had often compelled myself to taste.
Canaan was cursed with religious rigor on the Mellasys plantation at Bayou La Farouche.
I had spoken quite freely in my journal of the barbarians of Bayou La Farouche.
He conducted me toward the banks of Bayou La Farouche.
We were to be married in December, at Bayou La Farouche.
So time flew, and the sun of the sixth of November gleamed across the scaly backs of the alligators of Bayou La Farouche.
He would have to resign himself to being an old man at the mercy of care and love, or fight to keep this new and prized companionship; and to fight tired him to death.
He stood up, tall, square, bulky in his fur, looking anxiously down over the fields, and presently he saw them coming.
Age closed his mouth, paralysed his power to fight.
The name does not appear on the map of Major Latour, chief of engineers to Jackson, who in his report calls the whole bayou Bienvenu.
So styled in Cochrane's Report, which also speaks of it as Bayou Catalan.
This the British also perceived, and began to improve a narrow canal which then led from the head of the bayou to the levee, but was passable by canoes only.
The two bayou boats went to butting like goats, The big steamer's deck to gain, Oh!
From the sinking boat swam to the Bayou City ram, And boarded the Harriet Lane, Oh!
The Liberty Invincibles and Hardeman Texans Can wallop ten to one, whether Yanks or Mexicans; From the Waverly Confederates and the Dixie Blues, And the Bayou City Guards you may expect good news.
A rich uncle, one Auguste Le Noir, whose beautiful home among orange and fig trees on the Bayou Vermillon in Louisiana I visited last year, may perhaps rescue her.
He had changed his name, yet Michel knew him, and went to the uncle of Rose, on the Bayou Vermilion.
He knew, for instance, that when a bayou was struck the chances were there would be a point of land jutting out immediately below it, formed by the dirt swept out by the erratic current.
But nevertheless he too seemed to feel that more than half the battle was won, since they had passed over a wide bayou without any accident, and were now once again close to the land.
Don't believe they're getting along as well as they might since poor Larry lost his life while out duck hunting in a bayou four years back.
On the front page, under a large, black head, was a despatch from Baton Rouge relaying other despatches received at that point, from many points between Plaquimine and Bayou Sara.
He also told a wild story that the plantation store at Hamlin's Landing, on Bayou Henry, had been looted in broad daylight, by a young man and a boy, apparently members of the pirate crew.
We'll pass Bayou Sara and Baton Rouge, and then you can run in at any landing you like, say twenty miles or so below.
Yonder, to the westward, a bayou comes into Côte Blanche.
They remained for another hour in the seclusion of the small bayou and before they started out again the shadows were deepening and the warmth of the afternoon was vanishing.
Well, that wasn't so strange, but this morning when I was fishing down in Harpey's bayou a boat came through there so fast it was nothing but a black streak and a flash of spray.
Company G on picket ordered to block the road with felled trees, connecting the Clinton and Bayou Sara roads, to prevent the rebel cavalry and artillery getting in the rear of Dudley's brigade, who were camped near Plains Store.
It is rumored that several men from Bayou Fordoche came to the court house this morning to make affidavits against certain parties from that section of the parish.
Ibberville arrived in the gulf of Mexico with two frigates, and in March ascended the river in a felucca one hundred leagues, and returned by the bayou or outlet that bears his name, through lake Ponchartrain to the gulf.
The name of this bayou is Atchafalaya, or as it is commonly called, Chaffalio.
It lay full length across the narrow bayou and, even if the boats of the supply fleet should reach it, there was little room to pass on either side.
There had been moments in the bayou when he thought no mortal strength or skill could break the chain that bound them.
The bayou ran on narrow and deep, and they pulled and paddled with all their might, until at last they came to a place that was fringed only by high bushes.
Skirmishers had met skirmishers, and the battle of the bayou had begun.
The cannon shots had also reached the inside of the ship as fire began to spout from the port holes, and there was a steady stream of men leaping from the schooner into the water of the bayou and making for the land.
At night-fall they surprised a French trading schooner tied to the shore for safety, slaughtered those on board, and have now drawn the schooner across the mouth of the bayou to shut you in.
They had the bayou on one side and a little bay of the river on the other, and they could not be surrounded by land.
The dark fleet moved slowly on, cutting the deep still waters of the bayou with almost noiseless keel.
But the schooner that had blocked the mouth of the bayou was gone forever and the way lay open before them.
Alvarez with his whole force had turned from the Mississippi and had gone up a bayou about four miles.
Its mouth almost hidden by trees, the deep, still bayou opened out before them, and ran its narrow length far back into the land.
A deep still bayou cut across it, and here and there were pools of stagnant water, in which coiling black forms swam.
They passed the mouth of the bayou near which the Chateau of Beaulieu stood, and Henry and Shif'less Sol went to see it.
A tree, snapped through its mighty trunk by the hurricane, fell across the bayou directly in front of them.
These natives once dwelt in numerous settlements clustering around Bayou Lafourche, Grand river (or Bayou Atchafalaya), and chiefly around Grand Lake or Lake of the Shetimasha.
About 1809 a Cha'hta village existed on Washita river, another on Bayou Chicot, Opelousas Parish, Louisiana.
In the nineteenth century the last remnants of the Apalachi tribe were living on the Bayou Rapide, in Louisiana, and about A.
They once claimed the ground on which New Orleans stands, and after the Revolution lived on Bayou Lafourche.
One of these, consisting of three Frenchmen, was in 1703 directed to explore the tribes about the river de la Madeleine, now Bayou Tèche.
French explorers may have heard that name from the Shetimasha Indians settled on the Mississippi, where Bayou Lafourche, also called the river of the Shetimasha, branches off from it.
The Tensas river, in French Bayou Tensa, which joins the Washita river at Trinity City, after forming a prodigious number of bends, and flowing past a multitude of artificial mounds, still keeps up the memory of this extinct tribe.
Later on they crossed the Mississippi to its western side, and are mentioned as wanderers on Bayou Crocodile and its environs (1806), which they frequent even now, and on the Lake of Avoyelles.
This tribe once existed upon the upper Bayou Tèche northwest and west of the Shetimasha, north and northwest of the Opelousa Indians, and from the Tèche extended beyond Vermilion river, perhaps down to the sea coast.
Thence a brigade passed in boats up the bayou and on the 23d of December disembarked at a point some three miles from the Mississippi and then by land and canal pushed on to the river's edge.
The British fleet disembarked its army late in December after the most laborious difficulties because of the many miles of shallow bayou and toilsome marsh which delayed the advance.
I recall the visit of a young gentleman who had been sent from Jackson, by the Governor of Mississippi, to confer with Governor Moore, then on his plantation at Bayou Robert, and who had come over to see our college.
Mason Graham is still living on his plantation, on Bayou Rapides, old and much respected.
On arriving at Alexandria, I put up at an inn, or boarding-house, and almost immediately thereafter went about ten miles farther up Bayou Rapides, to the plantation and house of General G.
Moore's house and plantation were on Bayou Robert, about eight miles from Alexandria.
Sherman instantly ordered his men to stop firing, and at the same time sent General Steele with a brigade down the bayou at the right to prevent the enemy from retreating in that direction.
A line of infantry intrenchments, en crémaillère, extended from the Redan to the water of a bayou which connects with Reelfoot Lake.
The four steamers came out of the bayou and took on board Paine's division.
On our right we attempted to cross this bayouwith a portion of Morgan L.
They were separated by a strip of wood-land half a mile in width, and by a small bayou reaching from the river to the head of Lake St. John.
Bayou Plaquemine, Bayou Sara, Bayou La Fourche, Bayou Goula, and Bayou Teche, are among the streams that drain the great river.
During the freshet of '63, General Grant opened the levee at Providence, Louisiana, in the hope of reaching Bayou Mason, and thence taking his boats to Red River.
On our left the bayou was crossed by General Morgan's and General Steele's Divisions at two or three points, and our forces gained a position close up to the edge of the bluff.
On the afternoon of the 8th, when the boat was about eight miles above Bayou Sara, I experienced a new sensation.
The Sumter was lost a few months later, in consequence of running aground near the Rebel batteries in the vicinity of Bayou Sara.
