He fully came up to their expectations, for not only was the whiteness of his skin and the color of his hair wonderful to them, but he stood many inches higher than the merchants who walked by his side; for Roger had now attained his full height--although but a few months past seventeen--and stood six feet two in the thin sandals that he wore.
He was, as yet, far from the width that he would attain in another five or six years, but looked broad and massive as compared with the slight frames of the Mexicans.
When within a quarter of a mile of the gates of the town, a procession was seen approaching from it.

At its head were two nobles, whose appearance far exceeded anything Roger had hitherto seen.

They wore cuirasses formed of thin plates of gold, and over these mantles of gorgeous feather work.

On the head of one was a helmet of wood, fashioned to represent the head of the puma, or Mexican lion.

The other wore a helmet of silver, above which was a cluster of variegated feathers, sprinkled with precious stones.
They wore heavy collars, bracelets, and earrings of gold and precious stones.