What is "jacals"

Usage examples of "jacals".

The walls were made of the same mud-brick construction as the jacals of the indios, but many times thicker and higher.

Those somewhat less well off had their houses higher, the middle class in general had theirs higher still, and so on until the very poorest dwelt just below the fortifications at the cliff tops, often in jacals of mud and reeds that could be reached only by long ladders.