The contour of his face was Indian; he had the deep-set eyes, square jaws, and lank hair of the abonguil race.

But his eyes were blue, his hair was flaxen, and his skin as fair as that of a pure-blooded Teuton.

Mejia, as I subsequently heard, was the son of a German father and a mestizma mother, and prouder of his Indian than his European ancestry.

It was probably for this reason that he preferred being called Mejia rather than Morgenstern y Mejia, his original appellation.

His hereditary hatred of the Spaniards, inflamed by a sense of personal wrong, was his ruling passion.