What could be more straightforward than a view of sheets hanging out to dry in the sun?

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Sometimes he would dress and cook the meat, sometimes he would dry it out in the sun, make jerky.

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There is no sign to mark it, just a sprawl of heavy, dark, tropical hardwood left to dry and age in the sun and a couple of half-finished canoes in front of the open-air shed where he does his work.

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He got his hands on fruits and vegetables (you could also dry out the fruit in the sun, if you were careful).

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Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

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These salt "flowers" are laid in the sun to dry for a year.

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When you are finished being pampered try the wood-fired sauna or dry-ice chilled cold room, or just relax in your bathrobe in the outdoor sun room on a mock beach made of pebbles.

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With a team of hired men, we dug for hours in the hot sun for the body of my father beneath a tree on a dry, wide African plain.

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