arakeeta's

Updated: May 11, 2025

It was one of the better kind, built like others mainly with matting; no doors or windows, but with an extensive verandah which protected the inner part from rain and sun. Now and again I caught glimpses of Arakeeta's fairy form flitting in, or obscuring, the lamplight. I could see two other women and two men. Who and what were they?

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone

I leaned upon the taffrail and watched this lovely land of the 'flowery food' fade slowly from my sight. I had eaten of the Lotus, and knew no wish but to linger on, to roam no more, to return no more, to any home that was not Arakeeta's. This sort of feeling is not very uncommon in early life. And 'out of sight, out of mind, is also a known experience.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone