salitral

We passed also a muddy swamp of considerable extent, which in summer dries, and becomes incrusted with various salts; and hence is called a salitral.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

We passed also a muddy swamp of considerable extent, which in summer dries, and becomes incrusted with various salts; and hence is called a salitral.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

We passed also a muddy swamp of considerable extent, which in summer dries, and becomes incrusted with various salts; and hence is called a salitral.

Chapter IV 1909

They have made something more than ten miles from the point where they entered upon the _salitral_; and Gaspar begins to look inquiringly ahead, in the hope of sighting a tree, ridge, rock, or other land-mark to tell where the _travesia_ terminates.

Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850

And the same thing both to the right and left, far as their eyes can reach; for here the river, after turning off, has no longer a skirting of trees; its banks beyond being a low-lying saline marsh -- in short, a part of the _salitral_.

Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850

The thirst of itself would kill us, for there's never drinkable water in a _salitral_.

Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850

And now, having arrived on the edge of the _salitral_, they make halt, still keeping to their saddles, with eyes bent over the waste which stretches far beyond and before them.

Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850

An odd spectacle the trio of trackers would afford to anyone seeing them on the _salitral_ now, without knowing what they are at; one riding directly in the wake and on the track of the other, with over a hundred yards between each pair.

Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850

For the _salitral_, as all the rest of the campo, is covered with a stratum of mud, and the _travesia_ across it has been altogether obliterated.

Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850

He thinks the route across the _salitral_ is due westward, but he is not sure.

Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850