Boating is limited to smaller craft such as Pirogues or canoes. Swimming and the utilisation of pirogues is prohibited. It is a stream which flows into Pirogues Bay. They come across a seemingly-abandoned campsite with several pirogues. On the palace's lake there were "Indian" pirogues. To continue onward, the Guardsmen need the pirogues. Toussaint Charbonneau was steering one of the expedition's pirogues when a sudden thunderstorm overtook them. Henry D. Thoreau writes of using heavy pirogues in his book "The Maine Woods". The smaller animals don't have to swim, but are lifted into pirogues. In April, the expedition left Fort Mandan and headed up the Missouri River in "pirogues". Pirogues in the United States are associated particularly with the Cajuns of the Louisiana marsh. Dugouts are called pirogues in Francophone areas of Africa. Some, but not all, pirogues are also constructed in this manner. In French West Africa, pirogues refer to handcrafted banana-shaped boats used by traditional fishermen.