He towered like a Goliath above Wolf Larsen.

He must have measured six feet eight or nine inches in stature, and I subsequently learned his weight--240 pounds.

And there was no fat about him.

It was all bone and muscle.
A return of apprehension was apparent when, at the top of the companion-way, Wolf Larsen invited him below.

But he reassured himself with a glance down at his host--a big man himself but dwarfed by the propinquity of the giant.