The shore was fledged with palm trees… the ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen tees, scattered with decaying cocon.”

Lagoon: “Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake – blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple” (Golding, 10)

Lagoon: “Some act of God – a typhoon perhaps, or the storm that had accompanied his own arrival – had banked sand inside the lagoon so that there was a long, deep pool in the beach with a high ledge of pink granite at the further end.” (Golding, 14)

Fire: “The smoke was a tight little knot on the horizon and was uncoiling slowly” (Golding, 93)

Mountain: “Every point of the mountain held up trees- flowers and trees.” (Golding, 39)