He was great and fierce, somewhat spare in frame, but wide shouldered and shallow flanked.

His arms were long and not over big, but the muscles stood out on them like knots in a rope; his legs were long also, and very thick beneath the knee.

His eye was like an eagle's, his nose somewhat hooked, and he held his head a little forward, as a man who searches continually for a hidden foe.

He seemed to walk slowly, and yet he came swiftly, but with a gliding movement like that of a wolf or a lion, and always his fingers played round the horn handle of the axe Groan-Maker.

As for him who followed, he was great also, shorter than Umslopogaas by the half of a head, but of a sturdier build.