co-haunters

Updated: September 11, 2025

'The coral waxes, the palm grows, but man departs, says the sad Tahitian proverb; but they are all three, so long as they endure, co-haunters of the beach. The mark of anchorage was a blow-hole in the rocks, near the south-easterly corner of the bay. Punctually to our use, the blow-hole spouted; the schooner turned upon her heel; the anchor plunged.

Robert Louis Stevenson - In the South Seas