Eph was off at once to the agent's, where he found Eric and the canoe's crew, and was across the river and winding through the bayous before the sun went down.
Let Ball's Bluff and the Wilderness, the Chickahominy, and the deadly swamps and bayous of the Southwest, tell to the listening world the story of their bravery, their endurance and their sacrifices.
The Yazoo river was connected by manybayous and other watercourses on the west of Haines Bluff with its tributary, the Big Sunflower.
The approaches across bayous and creeks and broad marshes were narrow and difficult.
Grant's next scheme was by cutting another canal to carry his flotilla through Lake Providence west of the Mississippi, and thence by way of the many navigable bayous in that quarter to a point on the river well below Vicksburg.
There were lowlands, swamps, winding bayousand forests in places.
The whole southwestern part of the state is a network of bayous or natural canals, usually narrow and always deep.
The next day we were ordered to Barry's Landing, to act as guard for a steamer coming up through the bayous with supplies, and here my story properly begins.
We were dropping down one of those little bayous that intersect the state in every direction.
The distance would probably be greater by the tortuous bayous through which this new route would carry us.
The intervening land is cut up by bayous filled from the river in high water--many of them navigable for steamers.
The Mississippi levee cuts the supply of water off from these bayous or channels, but all the rainfall behind the levee, at these points, is carried through these same channels to the river below.
Bayous Baxter and Macon are narrow and tortuous, and the banks are covered with dense forests overhanging the channel.
The effort to make a waterway through Lake Providence and the connecting bayouswas abandoned as wholly impracticable about the same time.
The upper end of these bayous being cut off from a water supply, further than the rainfall back of the levees, was grown up with dense timber for a distance of several miles from their source.
The bayous were soon filled and much of the country was overflowed.
The river falling made the current in these bayous very rapid, increasing the difficulty of building and permanently fastening these bridges; but the ingenuity of the "Yankee soldier" was equal to any emergency.
There was but one thing to prevent the success of this plan, and that was the presence in the bayous of five American gun-boats, manned by a hundred and eighty men, and commanded by Lieutenant Comdg.
Up and down the Father of Waters, from the bayous of Louisiana to the Great Sandy other little shantyboat boys envied Jimmy and tried hard to imitate him.
There was enough kindness in him to stretch like a rainbow over the bayous and the river forests of sweet, rustling pine for as far as the eye could see.
The southern cooper had lived much among the bayous and swamps of that region of the state subjected to overflow.
It had been contracted by him while living on one of the bayous of southern Louisiana during a warm season.
During the winter months he hibernates in the mud of the bayous for days and weeks at a time.
Outside of the Rigolets we entered an arm of the Gulf of Mexico, called Lake Borgne, the shores of which were desolate, and formed extensive marshes cut up by creeks and bayous into many small islands.
The bayous and swamps of Louisiana and the low districts of Florida are particularly infested with these animals.
The numerousbayous of great marsh were crossed by "float-bridges," lying flat on the surface of the water, which spurted up in rhythmical little jets under the impact of hoofs.
As the low marshes and cat-tails flew past, Orde noted with satisfaction that many of the logs, urged one side by the breeze, had found lodgment among the reeds and in the bayous and inlets.
Occasionally one of thesebayous swung in across the road.
We knew very little of the nature of the soil in that country, but had become somewhat accustomed to the bayous that either start from the river or appear suddenly inland, quite disconnected from any stream.
The bayous were a strange feature of that country.
Yonder are the bays andbayous and channels in the marshes, where your boats used to hide.
Why, if it were true, that ruffian might escape and hide for days or weeks in the bayous around Barataria, even as Jean Lafitte did a hundred years ago.
Great numbers of crappies are annually seined from the shallow bayous and sloughs bordering the Illinois and Mississippi rivers by the United States Fish Commission, and planted in suitable waters.
It is common in the grassy streams of the Middle West and weedy bayous of the South-west, never exceeding a foot in length.
It is very active from early spring until late in the fall, when it resorts to the back-waters and bayous of tidal rivers for the winter.
Along the lower portion of the river bayous or sloughs open from either bank, and meander lazily toward the gulf.
But the fight went on stubbornly for three weeks, both along the river front and along the bayous in the interior.
The woods were full of deer, the prairies of buffalo, the glades of turkeys, the bayous of waterfowl, more meat than the French could eat in a lifetime.
For a full century after the settlement of its mouth they flourished in the neighboring channels and bayous of the Great River.
For days they steamed on under the spreading branches of trees, that often spanned the bayous in a mighty arch overhead, shutting out all sunlight.
They first cut the levees, and let the mighty tide of the Mississippi sweep in, filling the bayous to the brim, and flooding all the country round about.
Built to penetrate far towards the head-waters of rivers and bayous that in summer become mere shallow ditches, these steamers have a very light draught.
Many of the schooners captured started from Northern ports and worked their way along the coast until that chain of inlets, sounds, and bayous was reached, which borders the coast south of Chesapeake Bay.
Sluggish bayous run across the waste as their fancy leads them, their current depending upon the whim of the river, or perhaps on that of the streams from the hill country which constitutes the great dam of the Delta.
Along its southernmost course there are thousands of arms and lakes and bayous where for a time the river ran until it tired, and sought new scenes, new ways across the forests and cane-brakes.
So the project of digging the canal was started while elaborate explorations were also being prosecuted through the bayous and swamps for some other feasible channel or road in case it should fail.
We proceeded soon after sunrise: the first five miles we passed four bends on the left, and several bayous on both sides.
It is three miles and a half in length, and as we coasted along it we passed several small bends of the river towards the left, and two bayous on the same side.
During the first three miles we passed three small islands, six bayous on different sides of the river, and the same number of bends towards the right.
Alter passing a number of bayous and small islands on each side, we encamped about half a mile by land below the Rattlesnake cliffs.
There is some timber in the bottoms of the river, and vast numbers of otter and beaver, which build on its smaller mouths and the bayous of its neighbourhood.
During the next four miles, we passed three small bends of the river to the right, two small islands, and two bayous on the same side.
The river is full of large and small islands, and the plain cut by great numbers of bayous or channels, in which are multitudes of beaver.
The islands are unusually numerous: on the right are high plains occasionally forming cliffs of rocks and hills; while the left was an extensive low ground and prairie intersected by a number of bayous or channels falling into the river.
This we did at a low bluff on the left, after passing in the course of six and a half miles, four islands and eighteen bends on the right, and a low bluff and several bayous on the same side.
In the course of the four following miles we passed several more islands and bayous on each side of the river, and reached a high cliff on the right.
M] Colonel Szymanski testified: "After the forts had been passed, it was practicable for the enemy to transport his army through the bayous and canals to New Orleans, without encountering the forts.
As to passing by other points, "it is doubtful whether many cattle ever get through the swamps and bayous through which they are required to pass on this side.
Also, above English Turn (five miles below the city) there is water communication through Lake Borgne with the Gulf of Mexico by other bayous and canals of the same character.
The plantation of Colonel Baylie Raybone was situated on one of the numerous bayous which form a complete network of water communications in the western part of the parish of Iberville, in the State of Louisiana.
They had many trials from cold and storms, from high water in the bayous and low water in the casks, from alligators and buzzards; but they lived through it all.
It was full of bayous and lagoons, and inhabited only by herons, alligators, and other wild animals of the south-west.
It was interspersed with lakes, and bayous as reservoirs and drains for the wonderful floods which annually visit this country.
The section of country attracting the largest share of attention for this purpose was the Teche, or Attakapas country, the Bayous La Fourche, Terre Bonne, and Black.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bayous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
