Clark instantly started to build a pirogue; then crossing over the first channel he put up a scaffold on the edge of the flooded plain.

They captured a pirogue going up-stream, and killed all six paddlers.

At the end of the year some of the adventurers returned home; others[20] went north into the Kentucky country, where they hunted for several months before recrossing the mountains; while the remainder, led by an old hunter named Kasper Mansker, built two boats and hollowed out of logs two pirogues or dugoutsclumsier but tougher craft than the light birch-bark canoesand started down the Cumberland.

Thus in 1787 a Vincennes Creole, having loaded his pirogue with goods to the value of two thousand dollars, sent it down to trade with the Indians near the Chickasaw Bluffs.

He took his pirogue; but the bayou played with his impatience, maddened his passion, bringing him so near, to meander with him again so far away.