His face and hands were so dark that he might have been a Spaniard, but as he raised his hat to us we saw that the upper part of his brow was quite white and that it was from without that he had his swarthiness.
Il avait la figure et les mains d'un teint si foncé qu'on aurait pu le prendre pour un Espagnol, mais quand il leva son chapeau pour nous saluer, nous vîmes que son front était très blanc et que la nuance si foncée de son teint n'était que superficielle.