Era de rostro enjuto y macilento, tenía la piel avellanada y morena, como funda demasiado estrecha de la que quisiera salirse la calavera, y en la barba y el pelo, muy crecidos, el blanco prevalecía casi sobre el castaño. Los ojos se hundían en sus cuencas, luciendo con un fulgor enfermizo, y la mano que sostenía el rifle apenas si estaba más forrada de carne que el varillaje de los huesos.
His face was lean and haggard, and the brown parchment-like skin was drawn tightly over the projecting bones; his long, brown hair and beard were all flecked and dashed with white; his eyes were sunken in his head, and burned with an unnatural lustre; while the hand which grasped his rifle was hardly more fleshy than that of a skeleton.