He had perfectly straight, jet-black hair which hung evenly all around his head and flat against his cheeks.

He was dressed entirely in a black robe of the nature of a kaftan, gathered closely round his waist by a black girdle, and fitting tightly over his stalwart shoulders.
"His discretion is beyond all doubt," Keyork answered, "and for the best of all reasons.

He is totally deaf and dumb and absolutely illiterate.
I brought him years ago in Astrakhan, of a Russian friend.

He is very clever with his fingers.

It is he who stole for me the Malayan lady's head over there, after she was executed.