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Day one
Latter that day she goes to the captain of the barge. “This is it. There is the spot. Put us ashore there.” They drop you off on the banks of the river. Your gear and pirogue [pee-row] are off loaded. “We have to carry the pirogue over the natural levee to the bayou on the other side.” You put your equipment and spear into the pirogue and the two of you carry it up an odd little hill into the woodland.