How To Use pirogue In A Sentence
- This is Tobago's main fishing town and a great place to charter a pirogue to fish for mahimahi and marlin or to scuba dive at those boulders, known as The Sisters, you spied way out to sea on the trip into town.
- They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
- Trees that towered over prairie rivers were transformed into pirogues (hand-hewn canoes for trappers and traders), stockades for early military forts, and vigas or ceiling beams for adobe homesteads.
- On the blue-gray waters of Lake Edward, where the eastern fringe of Congo blends into Uganda, Byanmongo Matabishi, a fisherman from the Congolese village of Vitshumbi, stands on a pirogue and shakes his head. As Go the Hippos …
- In this region of the isthmus of Panama the rainforest is extremely dense, and the only means of travelling there is to go upriver by pirogue. Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture
- I threw the plastic bag from the pirogue into Marnier's boat and found the spare jerry can of petrol in the cabin of the other launch. A DARKENING STAIN
- Equipped with some chilled white wine and a few simple baguettes, we rented an inexpensive pirogue (outrigger canoe) and set off into the lagoon.
- And while elsewhere the Missouri has been dammed and reservoired into submission, here it flows beautifully beneath sandstone bluffs, not so different from the river that the Corps traveled in two pirogues and six dugout canoes.
- His forty hungry men had just hung the gate on their little stockade on April 17 when the French advance force of 500 men and eighteen cannons debarked from pirogues and canoes, formed ranks, and marched toward the fort. George Washington’s First War
- It is at its best when he is describing natural phenomena, from the insect trill which is "like some great tinnitus", through the "black fists" of bats, swooping and darting, to the beetle which runs along the gunwale of a pirogue, "dense, heavy armoured, a brutal tank on tiny legs". The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx – review
