You can also take a king-size pirogue, which is usually faster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snow traveller] Reference

For those who don't know, a pirogue is a Cajun boat that makes a canoe look large and roomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Local News from Tuscaloosa News] Reference

A tiny "pirogue" -- the traditional flat-bottomed, pointy-ended canoe used by Louisiana bayou folk for generations.    From Wordnik.com.  [thetowntalk.com -] Reference

When I leave you I step into a pirogue which is tied to the river bank. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

Our pal Mark Alpen delivered the pirogue on Monday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

AIT: Could you get around on a pirogue at that time?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alive In Truth] Reference

Ten minutes afterward the pirogue arrived at Manaos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

Not a big boat, mind you, but just a little pirogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [charles statman] Reference

And with his head unbent, he stepped into the pirogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

So the lateen sail was hoisted on the mast of the pirogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

SCARCELY HAD the pirogue which bore off Joam Garral, or rather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

At this moment the pirogue came up to the raft with the body of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

"He was brave enough to steal my pirogue and go into the swamp.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fat Tuesday]

I look at the water for a while before getting in another pirogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Guillebeau: French Guiana and the $100 Question] Reference

A pirogue is waiting for you on the canal not a hundred yards off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

By the time she found the pirogue the turtle had fortunately gone its way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference

They got a pirogue and swam their horses across the river one of those cold days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864,] Reference

At de front of de pirogue, I got de iron rail under de canvas and a rope tie to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

Yes | No | Report from jerry k wrote 1 year 5 days ago forget both go with a pirogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canoe vs Jon-Boat? Which one would be better for all around use?] Reference

The canoe and the pirogue touched land almost at the same time and not far from one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference

Beau's Cajun father told him that long ago, sitting in a pirogue while fishing with his son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

We buy shrimp and crawfish out of the pirogue at the grocery, and seafood stinks within hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Days 65, 69, 70.] Reference

A pirogue, going down the river, came alongside the jangada, after being hailed by Joam Garral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

In years past over 100 boats attended, but this year they had only three boats and one pirogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf oil spill makes blessing of boats a sad task in La. this year] Reference

This canal afforded an easy way of gaining the river if a pirogue were in waiting for the fugitive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

The pirogue was filled with these interesting amphibians, and they arrived just in time for breakfast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference

Jim Snow improvised a modest shelter by turning the pirogue over and propping one end of it against a rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference

Tasmin sat under the uptilted pirogue, Jim Snow on the other side of the fire, his face now in shadow, now in light.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference

I grabbed two brooms and jumped in a commandeered small boat (pirogue) and paddled to my friend Web Deadman's house.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Orleans - Four Years and Counting: Talking with Ray Reggie] Reference

She had one of her own to tell, of a woman who paddled away with her lover one night in a pirogue and never came back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awakening] Reference

The pirogue was found tethered to the paddle stuck upright in the soft bank, and -- Adorine's parents related the rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balcony Stories] Reference

As but few could work at the pirogue at a time, pains were taken to find diversion for the rest to keep them in high spirits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference

When they caught sight of the fugitives in the canoe, they quickly launched a swift pirogue and set out in pursuit of the canoe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference

Once the young man disappeared Tasmin shot to the pirogue as if released by a spring—in a trice she had donned her muddy shift.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference