desert-scene

Updated: August 23, 2026

Naturally the vegetation in this poor soil is very scanty, only bushes and reed-grass, irregularly scattered in the valleys between little hillocks ranged in rows. This arid desert-scene is doubly surprising to the eye, owing to the sudden change from the forest to the bare plain. In this seemingly endless plain, the two craters rise in a bold silhouette, grimly black.

Felix Speiser - Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific