Its colour was peculiar, more like that of the red man than any other variety of our species, and yet different from it--a richer and a softer hue, with large black eyes, deep and brilliant, and brows arched as a semicircle.

The face was beardless; but a nameless something in the aspect, tranquil though the expression, and beauteous though the features, roused that instinct of danger which the sight of a tiger or serpent arouses.

I felt that this manlike image was endowed with forces inimical to man.

As it drew near, a cold shudder came over me.

I fell on my knees and covered my face with my hands..