crab-haunted

Updated: May 8, 2025

Not peace, but a sword, a sword of horrors, of frightful ills, was brought them. There was a little canoe under a noble cocoanut-tree on the shell-strewn and crab-haunted coral beach, the roots of the palm partly covered by the salt water, and partly by a tangle of lilac marine convolvulus. I pushed the tiny craft into the brine, and paddled off on the still water of the shining lagoon.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.