With the assistance of the counter-currents, the piroguesreascended the Mississippi, and reached the bed of the Ohio.
Yes, the moon now shining above our heads will become weary of lighting the solitudes of Kentucky--the river that is now bearing our pirogues will suspend the course of its waters--before my tears cease to flow for Atala!
Accordingly the backwoods levies gathered on Clinch River, at the mouth of Big Creek, April 10th, and embarked in pirogues and canoes to descend the Tennessee.
Their construction greatly resembles that of the pirogues of the Polynesians, or the kayaks of the Greenlanders.
One of the pirogues preserved at the Copenhagen Museum is made of one half of the trunk of a tree, some six feet long, hollowed into the shape of a trough, and cut straight at both ends.
At five, in the afternoon of April 7, six canoes and twopirogues were pushed out on the Missouri.
Cottonwood trees yielded carriage wheels two feet in diameter, and the masts of the pirogues made axletrees.
The Missouri was at flood tide, turbid with crumbling clay banks and great trees torn out by the roots, from which keel boat and pirogues sheered safely off.
The instant the pirogues found the brigantine was turning back, they rushed forth out of the reeds and pulled away at their utmost speed in pursuit of her.
Holguin now flew in pursuit, and it pleased God that he should overtake the canoes, and the fleet of large pirogues which conveyed Quauhtemoctzin and the grandees of Mexico.
At a short distance from the place where the pirogues lay concealed, stakes had been driven into the water, of which it was intended our two vessels should run foul.
Holguin now made a sign for the pirogues to stop, and as they did not instantly comply, he ordered his men to level their crossbows and muskets at them.
When these were near enough, a shot was fired as a signal to the Spanish vessels, upon which they, in their turn, rushed out upon the pirogues and canoes with the utmost velocity, and bored several of them into the ground.
As soon as our brigantines espied the two canoes they went in pursuit of them, the latter keeping close into the reeds, and continually nearing the spot where the pirogues lay in ambush.
Both the above-mentioned distinguished Mexicans were taken on board to point out the place where the pirogues lay concealed, as our brigantine was purposely to steer in that direction.
On one occasion two Mexicans of distinction were captured, who informed Cortes that forty pirogues and a great number of canoes lay hid among the reeds of the lake to make another attempt upon the two brigantines.
The brigantine pretended to seek her safety in flight, and steered in the direction where our six others lay concealed, the pirogues following with the utmost confidence.
By a shout from Manoel, repeated by all his companions, one of the pirogues was immediately steered for the body, while the diver was at the same time hauled up to the raft.
Among those who hurried on board one of the first pirogues had brought Madame Valdez.
The time is gone by when they bore on their bosom the brigantines of Cortez and the pirogues of the ancient inhabitants.
At the same moment that the barge left the fort, six small canoes and the two pirogues shot up river, carrying thirty-one men and Sacajawea with her child.
It is only the chafing of our pirogues against the piles," said one of the new comers--"let us proceed to business.
Cortés now reembarked his soldiers and sailed away to the island of San Juan de Uloa, under the lee of which they anchored, and soon saw the light pirogues of the Indians coming off to them from the mainland.
Broadhorns and keel-boats and sailboats and river pirogues passed down.
As the great barge had started down the river, the two pirogues which had come so far, joined by the cottonwood dugouts laboriously fabricated during the winter months, had started up the river, manned by thirty-one men.
They pulled the pirogues alongside the barge and sat, barricaded behind their goods, rifle in hand.
It guarded the key of the upper Wabash, for this point "was the head of navigation for pirogues and large canoes, and consequently there was a transfer at this place of all merchandize that passed over the Wabash.
Left landing with seven batteaus and three pirogues loaded with provisions, and proceeded to the dam, which we opened and yet found the water so scanty that it was with the greatest difficulty we passed the chemin couvert.
Where the pirogues were first launched, it is only wide enough for one boat, and is much embarrassed with logs and stumps.
At the ends of many of the portage paths were to be found busy out-door work-shops in the old days of pirogues and canoes.
On October 30, Hamilton sent Lieutenant De Quindre with seven pirogues loaded with provisions, and fourteen men, to follow Lieut.
Sent down to Du Vernet, who was encamped at the fork of the Ouabache, for seven light pirogues and twenty-two men to assist in lightening the boats.
Presently they saw a great number of pirogues full of warriors coming from the opposite side of the river.
Very soon, the pirogues thus succeeding one another, the crew saw themselves surrounded by a multitude of savages, who came upon the deck from all sides.
The pirogues and keel boats returned with such articles as the market of New Orleans afforded.
Upon that day the English were surprised to see that none of the pirogues left the river to trade with the ships.
But after one or two rounds the number of pirogues increased, and no longer laden with poultry, they appeared to be filled with stones.
A native, who opposed the seizure of two pirogues by the English, as hostages until the stolen arms were restored, was wounded severely by a gunshot.
As the sun rose upon the 19th, the English sailors were astonished at finding themselves surrounded by pirogues of all sizes, having on board no less than eight hundred natives.
The vessels sailed on the morning of the 24th, and were followed for a long time by numbers of pirogues bearing cocoa-nuts and fruit.
A large number of pirogues left Atooi or Tavaï Island and surrounded the ships.
The coast was bordered by a chain of breakers, behind which two or three pirogues appeared to be paddling, so as to reconnoitre the new-comers.
Yet we could perceive the houses amid the trees, and the pirogues on the shore.
Ever since their entry into the bay the vessels had been surrounded by pirogues swarming with savages.
When they came in sight of Huaheine, several pirogues approached the Endeavour, and it was only after they had recognized Tupia that the natives consented to come on board.
A boat, sent to take the pirogues of the robbers, was assailed with stones until it reached the shore, and it was only after a discharge of shot that the assailants determined to retreat.
More than 100 pirogues hastened to surround the two vessels.
Eight or 10 pirogues and more than 20 canoes were also burned.
Several piroguesdrifted into view on the river, now brightening in the sunshine.
In May, Lewis and Clark's pirogues ascended the Missouri and the leaders and men of the expedition spent another day in La Charette.
A universal shout of joy greeted his appearance; the Indians in the pirogues hurled their lances at him, whilst we, upon either shore of the lake, fired a volley.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pirogues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
