 | John Seely Hart - 1849 - 934 páginas
...hardly believe it, for his imagination had pictured a different sort of being from that which he beheld. had that reddish-brown, rusty hue, which constant...arm of immense size, and almost as hard as ivory. " You gaze hard at me," continued he, addressing himself to Walter ; " but it 's natural, for I 've... | |
 | Calvin Henderson Wiley - 1851 - 282 páginas
...however, would instantly have known him to be a man of the woods, for his skin had that reddish brown, rusty hue, which constant exposure to the weather produces, and there was about his look and gait an undefinable air that showed an untamed and untameable nature. He was rather low of... | |
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The wild man was, at first eight, an ordinary looking negro, whose face, though not entirely black, denoted unmixed blood, and whose features had an expression more intellectual than ferocious. An old hunter, however, would instantly have known him to... 