He looks honest and straightforward, though where he got that light wavy hair and that fair skin from I can't guess--they are rare enough in Cadiz, where I heard one say that he came from." "We don't know that he came from there, Juan.

He may have come from the mountains of Biscaya, where fair skins are commoner than they are in the south.

It is only that he described to us a port, which must have been Cadiz, as the last thing he recollected in Spain." "Ah, well, his skin matters nothing!" the soldier said.

"His face is an honest one, and as to height and strength one could wish no better comrade.

He is young yet, not more than nineteen or twenty, I should guess; but I will warrant that there is not a man in the expedition he could not put on his back, if it came to a tussle.