She spent seven weeks paddling down the Congo River in a dug-out canoe.

Barring a small dug-out canoe on the river there was nothing moving within sight.

On its placid bosom a dug-out canoe glided rapidly, containing Natty Bumpo and Genevra Tompkins.

We had now also acquired a small dug-out canoe as tender, and a large fishing-net.

Much like many other Guna women, she's sitting in her small dug-out canoe and offering her beautiful handicrafts to tourist boats.

Taking the solitary dug-out canoe, or pirogue, as it is called in the vernacular, we paddled out into the tangle of water-paths.

So that same afternoon saw Kettle journeying in a dug-out canoe over the beer-colored waters of the river, up stream, toward the witch-doctor's village.

In the future they would be riding in ox-drawn carts and dug-out canoes; why not let them enjoy a little high technology while they could?

It has taken on many different styles and sizes over the centuries, from the simplest dug-out canoes to more advanced 19th century galleons and warships.

Dug-out canoes were common wherever the trees were big and strong enough, as in Southern Asia, Central Africa, and on the Pacific Coast of America.