tauupo

Updated: June 26, 2025

One held to the window-frame at the side, and turned the tap. A shower fell a dozen feet like rose-leaves upon one. Ah, the waters of Tahiti! Never was such gentle, velvety rain, a benediction from the tauupo o te moua, the slopes of the mountains.

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