She dropped the bucket and ran to the wall of poles, putting her eye to one of the larger chinks.

An Algarian city can rise in the space of an hour - a well-ordered city of tents and pavilions, neatly laid out on streets, and the whole surrounded by a wall of poles which are carried under their wagons.

A twenty-foot-long tent-like structure of wood and animal hides was erected on the banks of the creek and was framed with logs and planks staked in the ground, making walls of poles covered with animal hides.