By nature he must have been a fair-skinned man, for his upper brow, where his cap came over it, was as white as mine, and his close-cropped hair was tawny.
La nature avait du lui donner un teint très blanc, car quand il rejetait en arrière sa casquette, le haut de son front était aussi blanc que le mien, et sa chevelure coupée très ras avait la couleur du tan.