Karoo

Adding to their spectral appearance were the long, withered grass-tufts and karoo bushes, white as if coated with hoar frost.

On the Karoo, just crossed, wild animals were so scarce and shy, that with all the skill of their hunters the larder had run low.

A man walking along the great wastes of the African karoo comes across a little stream.

After a shower of rain, the Karoo in South Africa, for instance, is an extraordinarily beautiful country.

Then the Karoo becomes unlovely, desolate, and barren-looking, with only its inconspicuous permanent plants visible.