periagua

• He knew not but that hundreds of warriors would cross the river in their canoes, to make an impetuous assault upon him Having thus guarded against surprise, and afforded the Indians a little time to recover from their first alarm, he then, unarmed, advanced to the water's edge, and by friendly signs endeavored to invite some of the chiefs to come over to meet him Several of the chiefs entered a large boat, called a periagua. —  The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago
• Retaining him with them, in the large periagua, they speedily paddled ashore, followed by Membrй's canoe, with the two Indian boatmen Without any hesitancy, the six Indian chiefs entered into the redoubt which La Salle had thrown up. —  The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago
• The savages, unapprehensive of any treachery, crowded their periagua, and the boat and the canoe, with the inmates on terms of the kindest fellowship, passed over to the French on the western bank. —  The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago
• Here they exchanged their large and heavy periagua, for two light canoes, with which to ascend against the swift current of the Mississippi The next day they made twenty-four miles, and reached Cappa, the last village of the Arkansas on the Mississippi. —  The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago
• If they were making a periagua, they left the stern "flat"--that is, cut off sharply without modelling; if they were making a canoa, they pointed both ends, as a Red Indian points his birch-bark. —  On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.

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