What is "pirogues"

Usage examples of "pirogues".

He spoke of Timbuctoo, the gate of the Sahara and the Western Soudan, the frontier town where life ended and met and mingled, whither the camel of the desert brought the weapons and merchandise of Europe as well as salt, that indispensable commodity, and where the pirogues of the Niger landed the precious ivory, the surface gold, the ostrich feathers, the gum, the crops, all the wealth of the fruitful valley.

Here, as below, the remarkable skill of the women and girls in the management of the smaller pirogues was noticed.

Shadowspots has found a place where barefoot men pulled canoes or pirogues ashore on a little riverine beach and had themselves a meal of raw fish and a raw moccasin, leaving behind bones from the snake but not the head.

Dozens of pirogues, huge hollowed-out hardwood trees, bobbed and weaved in the current.