His height was probably five feet ten inches, or ten and a half; but my first impression, or feel of the man, was not of this, but of his strength.

And yet, while he was of massive build, with broad shoulders and deep chest, I could not characterize his strength as massive.

It was what might be termed a sinewy, knotty strength, of the kind we ascribe to lean and wiry men, but which, in him, because of his heavy build, partook more of the enlarged gorilla order.

Not that in appearance he seemed in the least gorilla-like.

What I am striving to express is this strength itself, more as a thing apart from his physical semblance.