It was built of saplings, eight feet square and chinked with mud.

It was made of logs, and once had been chinked with mud or clay.

The houses were built of logs-notof cut stone and marble-mostlyin blockhouse style, chinked with mud.

In three weeks they were disembarking in Itsipitsi, a frontier town built of logs chinked with mud.

Some of the chimneys were made with sticks and chinked with mud, and would sometimes catch on fire.

They consisted of log huts twelve by fourteen, thoroughly chinked with mud and straw, some covered with dirt, others with split boards.

A photograph of a forest clearing: pathetic new furrows straggling among stumps, a clumsy log cabin chinked with mud and roofed with hay.