 ... mentioned by various authors. Butel-Dumont speaks of a raft made of poles and canes, and Du Pratz, writing of the Louisiana Indians, says : The conveniences for passing rivers would soon be suggested to them by the floating of wood upon the water....  A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, People - Pagina 41door Jay Edwards, Nicolas Kariouk Pecquet du Bellay de Verton - 2004 - 304 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Henry Holmes - 1896 - 680 pagina’s
...Accordingly one of their methods of crossing rivers is upon flouts of canes, which are called by them Cajcu, and are formed in this manner. They cut a great number...fasten together sideways, and over these they lay a few ciossways, binding all close together, and then launching it into the water.1 We learn from various... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology - 1896 - 678 pagina’s
...to them by the floating of wood upon the water. Accordingly one of their methods of crossing rivers is upon floats of canes, which are called by them Cajeu, and are formed iu this mauner. They cut a great number of canes, which they tie up into faggots, part of which they... | |
 | 1896 - 676 pagina’s
...to them by the floating of wood upon the water. Accordingly one of their methods of crossing rivers is upon floats of canes, which are called by them Cajeu, and are formed iu this manner. They cut a great number of canes, which they tie up into faggots, part of which they... | |
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