Drawing [vertical orientation]. The sky is blank. The annotation in the top right reads: "-- rather too many leaves", in reference to the depiction of the palm trees. The clump of palms is shown in the centre and right of the picture, on the near shore of an inlet of calm water. The two nearest and tallest palms are growing very close together, with another further to the right and slightly more distant, and other smaller ones behind. At their feet and to the right there is some indication of timberwork, possibly for fencing, amid undergrowth foliage. A group of less distinctly sketched mixed leafy and palm trees continues in the midground distance to the left-hand edge of the picture. Amongst these trees in the centre left stands a single-storey pitched roof building, with indications of thatch and possibly of fencing, on the further shore of the inlet. On the nearside shore in the centre, on the roughly even ground of the foreshore, a human figure dressed in a loincloth stands; his body faces rightwards, but his head, whose crown is bald or shaven, is turned away from the viewer, and he is carrying a globular bag on a pole on his left shoulder. In the left foreground, a clump of low sparse bushy vegetation sprouts among small rocks, casting shadows into a patch of calm water.