salt-pans

At Nchokotsa we came upon the first of a great number of salt-pans, covered with an efflorescence of lime, probably the nitrate.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

On several parts of this we found large salt-pans, one of which, Ntwetwe, is fifteen miles broad and one hundred long.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

This was the first salt we had met with since leaving Angola, for none is to be found in either the country of the Balonda or Barotse; but we heard of salt-pans about a fortnight west of Naliele, and I got a small supply from Mpololo while there.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Lokanda – Mire, about some salt-pans in the valley of the

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

In winter, when it snows in the mountains, that's the time we send one from each family down across the salt-pans, to the blackstone quarry, to carve new columns and carry the pieces to the temple environs.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

The 2000 villagers are dependent on nearby salt-pans; when they are dry there is no work.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

Sinho was a good three miles away, with swamp and salt-pans and canals in between, and if I knew anything about battle-fields the ground would be littered with bad-tempered enemy wound-d just ready to take out their spite on passers-by.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Down on the salt-flats I no longer had much view; it was nothing but great crusted white beds and little canals, with occasional brackish hollows; ugly country, and after a few minutes there wasn't a soul to be seen anywhere, just the glittering lips of the salt-pans either side, cutting off sight and sound, and only the dry scuff of the Waler's hooves to break the stillness.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Sinho was a good three miles away, with swamp and salt-pans and canals in between, and if I knew anything about battle-fields the ground would be littered with bad-tempered enemy wound-d just ready to take out their spite on passers-by.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Down on the salt-flats I no longer had much view; it was nothing but great crusted white beds and little canals, with occasional brackish hollows; ugly country, and after a few minutes there wasn't a soul to be seen anywhere, just the glittering lips of the salt-pans either side, cutting off sight and sound, and only the dry scuff of the Waler's hooves to break the stillness.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985