Pirogue
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A pirogue, also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and canoes. The word is French and is derived from the Spanish piragua, which comes from the Kalinago pi
Traditional fishing pirogue (a lakana outrigger canoe) with sail from Madagascar
Group of pirogues at sunset on the river bank of Don Tati, Si Phan Don, Laos
Pirogues of Madagascar
A pirogue on the Niger River in Mali
Lewis and Clark Expedition
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchas
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…place to another by maintaining a bowline direction. Outboard motors are increasingly being used in many regions. Uses in military and piracy contexts Lewis and Clark's pirogues mounted a blunderbuss to the bow with a pintle. There are accounts of 17th and 18th century Caribbean pirates using pirogues to attack and…
Portraits of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Camp Dubois (Camp Wood) reconstruction, where the Corps of Discovery mustered on the east side of the Mississippi River, through the winter of 1803–1804, to await the transfer of the Louisiana Purchase to the United States
Corps of Discovery meets Chinooks on the Lower Columbia in October 1805 (Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia, painted by Charles M. Russell, c. 1905).
Reconstruction of Fort Mandan, Lewis and Clark Memorial Park, North Dakota