As for his dress, he wore a cloak of flaming red, such a cloak as your Eve loves to wear, and white sandals on his feet.
There was no covering on his shaven head, which gleamed like a skull.
His breast was naked, but across it hung one row of black jewels.
From the sheen of them I think they must have been pearls, which are sometimes found of that colour in the East.

He had no weapon nor staff, and his hands hung down on either side of the chair.
"For a long while I watched him, but if he saw me he took no note.

As I watched I perceived that birds were coming to and leaving him in countless numbers, and thought that it must be their wings which made the constant soughing sound that filled all the still and dreadful air." "What kind of birds were they, Father ?" "I am not sure, but I think doves; at least, their flight was straight and swift like to that of doves.

Yet of this I am not sure either, since I saw each of them for but a second.

As they reached the man they appeared out of nothingness.