coral-seeking

Updated: July 18, 2025

In those “good old days,” not so very far distant, the dredging nets were coarse and weighty, and the capstan of the clumsiest and most primitive description, so that the coral-seeking serfs under contract were worked like bullocks until they were often wont to fall asleep out of sheer exhaustion as they hauled away mechanically.

Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp) Vaughan - The Naples Riviera