Then down the ladder on her side came the Man.

Deliberately he set his white-sandalled feet upon the quay, advanced a few paces into the full light of the bright moon and stood still as though to suffer himself to be seen of every eye.
Truly he was worth the seeing.

Hugh noted his garments first, and particularly the head-dress, which caught his glance and held it, for never had he known such a one before.

It was a cap fitting tight to the skull, only running across the crown of it was a stiff raised ridge, of leather perhaps, jagged and pointed something like the comb of a cock.
This comb, of brilliant red, was surmounted at its highest point by a ball of black of the size of a small apple.

The cap itself was yellow, except its lowest band, which stood out from it and was also black.