| Sawkins, whose canoe was disabled, went next into the piragua to meet Peralta, leaving the four canoes to harass the admiral. |
| Ageros's description of the construction of a piragua cannot be improved. |
| Unlike the original dish which included flavors like tamarind, mango, coconut, piragua is evolving to include flavors like grape, a fruit not grown in Puerto Rico. |
| Zarco's family ranged the Rio Chico basin, where his father taught him to fashion the dugout piragua, and to manage it on jungle rivers. |
| From the dugout have come the piragua, Rose's tobacco boat, and the Chesapeake Bay canoe and bugeye as we see them today. |
| All day we fought like bull dogs, but they burnt the booms at night, And I fled in a piragua sore wounded from the fight. |
