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Now and then around the one or the other bend came a cayuca, the native dug-out made of the hollowed trunk of a tree, usually the cedro though to a jungle native any tree is a "cedro" if he does not happen to think of its right name.
"Maria says we'll reach Cruces in three days, if we don't have accidents," spoke Mr. Grigsby. "Might as well enjoy the scenery." The dug-out was called a cayuca. It was about twenty feet long, but very narrow, and was hollowed from a single trunk of mahogany for mahogany was as common down here as pine up North. Charley felt quite luxurious, riding in a mahogany boat!
Grigsby was standing on the river bank, leaning on his rifle and gazing about rather puzzled, while canoe after canoe was pushing off. "No hurry," he spoke, when Charley and Mr. Adams arrived in haste. "Save your breath." "Why's that?" asked Mr. Adams, sharply. "Our canoe's gone, and so are our boatmen!" That was so! Here was the very spot where the cayuca had been tethered to a pole.
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