Karroo

The perennial rivers are important in providing corridors of productivity dominated by trees that are derived from the distant savannas, such as Acacia karroo. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Trees and taller woody shrubs are mostly restricted to watercourses, and include Acacia karroo, Diospyros lycioides, Grewia robusta, Rhus lancea, and Tamarix usneoides. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Trees such as Acacia giraffe, A. karroo, Tamarix usneoides, Euclea pseudebenus, and Rhus lancea are found along the riverbeds throughout the ecoregion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He took no note of the country about him, as they passed from veldt to karroo, from karroo to the coast plateau, and from the coast plateau down across the Cape Flats, sparsely covered with pipe grass and acacias. ❋ Hamilton Brock Fuller (1905)

Particularly in the rein he gave to his thoughts during nights spent in the solitude of the karroo, when the stars were almost the only things which he could look upon, their immensity the only companion worthy of himself. ❋ Catherine Radziwill (1899)

His cravat, of a lively green, patterned with yellow rockets, warred with his tallowy complexion; his drab-coloured hair hung in clumps; he was growing a beard that sprouted in reddish tufts from the tough hide of his jaws, leaving bare patches between, like the karroo. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

Good-bye to the bronzed, ungirdled vastness of veld and karroo, and the clear, dark, distant blue of level-topped mountains bathed in the pure stimulating atmosphere that braces like champagne. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

The other two black figures came hurrying over then, stumbling amongst the stones and karroo-bushes in their haste. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

Involuntarily she gave the call of the Kaffir herd: the shrill, prolonged ululation that carries from spitzkop to spitzkop across the miles of karroo or high-grass veld between. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

Again and again she fell, and each time she was jerked up and forced to run again upon her bleeding feet, leaving rags of her garments upon the karroo-bushes and blood-marks on the stones. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

I passed the low clumps of dry karroo-bushes by the rocky kopje. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

Now and then, too, were miserable, dried-up karroo-bushes, starved among the great blocks above the rich green hollow where Sandho grazed. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

The lad addressed did not turn his head, but walked straight on, with the dwarf karroo bushes crackling and snapping under his feet, while at each call he gave an angry kick out, sending the dry red sand flying. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

From this reservoir he drew forth constant supplies, not only to water flocks and herds, but to create a garden in the karroo, which soon glowed with golden fruit. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Jerry Goldboy, and the two ultimately bought a farm on the karroo and settled down. ❋ Unknown (1859)

One day Hans Marais was riding with Charlie Considine on the karroo, not far from the farm-house. ❋ Unknown (1859)

The truth is that Charlie Considine was lost -- utterly lost on the karroo! ❋ Unknown (1859)

To the right the undulating karroo, covered with wild-flowers, and dotted with clumps of mimosa-bush, terminated abruptly in a lake which stretched away, in some places like a sea, to the horizon. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Thereafter the garden had to be considerably enlarged, for the golden fruit created by the streams which had been collected and stored by Rivers, proved quite inadequate to the supply of those oceans of babies and swarms of Goldboys that flooded the karroo, and filled its solitudes with shouts and yells that would have done credit to the wildest tribe of reddest Kafirs in the land. ❋ Unknown (1859)

"Peace comes too late for us, Gertie," said Hans Marais to his wife, on their return to the old homestead on the karroo, which presented nothing but a blackened heap of dry mud, bricks, and charred timbers; herds and flocks gone -- dreary silence in possession -- the very picture of desolation. ❋ Unknown (1859)