sharped-edged

Updated: May 22, 2025

Purtaboi dainty and unique its hill crowned with low-growing trees and shrubs, a ruddy precipice, groups of pandanus palms, beach lined with casuarinas, banks of snow-white coral debris, ridge of sharped-edged rocks jutting out to the north-western cove and out-lying reef of coral, tangle of orchids and scrub all in miniature save the orchids gigantic and gross and profuse of old-gold bloom.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber