Black, piercing, almost unendurable, they seem to contain in themselves a remarkable will power which there is no gainsaying.

It is a power that is partly racial and partly individual: a power impregnated with some mysterious quality, partly hypnotic, partly mesmeric, which seems to take away from eyes that meet them all power of resistance--nay, all power of wishing to resist.

With eyes like those, set in that all-commanding face, one would need to be strong indeed to think of resisting the inflexible will that lay behind.
"You may think, Adam, that all this is imagination on my part, especially as I have never seen any of them.

So it is, but imagination based on deep study.

I have made use of all I know or can surmise logically regarding this strange race.