His hands, especially, were so enormously thick and broad as hardly to retain a human shape.

His arms, as well as legs, were bowed in the most singular manner, and appeared to possess no flexibility whatever.

His head was equally deformed, being of immense size, with an indentation on the crown (like that on the head of most negroes), and entirely bald.

To conceal this latter deficiency, which did not proceed from old age, he usually wore a wig formed of any hair-like material which presented itself--occasionally the skin of a Spanish dog or American grizzly bear.

At the time spoken of, he had on a portion of one of these bearskins; and it added no little to the natural ferocity of his countenance, which betook of the Upsaroka character.