Plods through mire

Usage examples of slogs.

The first time she asked me to go sailing, as she called it, the outboard fell off and while we waited for someone to tow us in we sat there drinking beer, drifting in small circles, relatively content, pretending we were on an Arab dhow lazing through the papyrus slogs of the Sudanese Nile.

Now which would you rather be doing for the next six hours - commanding a troop or slogs to feny the dirt farmers back and forth, with some twobracelet type watching your every move, or taking your pick of what the evacuees left behind in their hurry?