veldt

• “The word "veldt" is Dutch, and the word "illimitable" is Double Dutch.”

  A Miscellany of Men

• “Colonial troops were valued for their ability to “shoot and ride,” and they performed well on the veldt, which is not unlike Gippsland, the Wimmera, or the Riverina.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “Six major land masses characterized uniformly with low mountains, plains areas studded with grasses and small trees, best described as a veldt.”

  Simon & Schuster: Vulcan’s Glory

• “The veldt is a void to us, all darkness, and it hides a threat which, as it may fall anywhere, must be guarded against everywhere.”

  With Rimington

• “The dry grass of the veldt, which is always catching fire, was burning between us and the Boers; long lines of low smouldering fire, eating their way slowly along, and sending volumes of smoke drifting downward, obscuring the view.”

  With Rimington

• “Quantities of prisoners were made, and over a thousand burghers were said to be slain -- in fact, the veldt was a complete parquet of dead Dutchmen.”

  South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899

• “To advance was impossible; each depression in the veldt was a sheet of water, in places inches deep.”

  On the Heels of De Wet

• “Negotiations, then, must not be unduly hurried while the veldt was a bare russet-coloured dust-swept plain.”

  The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct

• “South African veldt, which is said to give a greater feeling of infinity than the ocean even.”

  Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman

• “The Rand gold fields are a stupendous marvel, and they make all other gold fields small, but I was not a stranger to gold-mining; the veldt was a noble thing to see, but it was only another and lovelier variety of our Great Plains; the natives were very far from being uninteresting, but they were not new; and as for the towns, I could find my way without a guide through the most of them because I had learned the streets, under other names, in towns just like them in other lands; but the diamond mine was a wholly fresh thing, a splendid and absorbing novelty.”

  Following the Equator, Part 7

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