These men were distinguished by their hair, rather than by their more European features.

Their colour was as dark as that of other natives.

Lisle learned that such light-coloured children as were born of these mixed marriages uniformly died, but that the dark offspring generally lived.
All the small shops in the town were kept by this class.

With the exception of the buildings belonging to them, the houses of the town were merely mud erections, with a door and a window or two.
The roofs were flat, and composed of bamboos and other branches; overlaid by a thick mud which, Lisle learned, not unfrequently collapsed in the rainy season.

Nothing could be done at that time to repair them, and their inhabitants took refuge in the houses of their friends, until the dry season permitted them to renew their own roofs.
The women were of very superior physique to the men.