aloof

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Wood was, Mr Humphreys found, extremely scarce and dear, the country being absolutely bare of trees, and wood for fuel was only obtained in kloofs or deep hollows, and had to be fetched long distances.

From The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars by Henty, G.A.

He’d a suspected a plant, ’cos his understanding ’ud tell him that goats don’t grow in kloofs.

From Tales from the Veld by Glanville, Ernest

Timber abounds in the kloofs on the south-eastern side of the mountain.

From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Ward, Harriet

It is believed that the mountain torrents, which flow during certain seasons of the year, have worn deep valleys in their sides, and thus occasioned these kloofs, or mountain passes.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.

The two were seated upon a rock just outside the kraal, watching the changing lights over the far-away kloofs as the sun sank behind the highest ridge to the westward.

From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Mitford, Bertram