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Updated: May 4, 2025
Richard was a young man of noble presence, tall and finely proportioned, and he looked to great advantage in a complete suit of Milanese armour all graven and gilded, and instead of a helmet, a wide-leafed fawn coloured hat with Walloon plumes.
How shall I describe everything the little townlet, for I cannot call it town, nestling beneath the bare hills that we had been looking at so longingly all the morning the scattered wooden boxes of houses, with ragged roods of scrubby ground between them the tussocks of brown grass the huge wide-leafed flax, with its now seedy stem, sometimes 15 or 16 feet high, luxuriant and tropical-looking the healthy clear-complexioned men, shaggy-bearded, rowdy-hatted, and independent, pictures of rude health and strength the stores, supplying all heterogeneous commodities the mountains, rising right behind the harbour to a height of over a thousand feet the varied outline of the harbour now smooth and sleeping.
He was dressed in threadbare black; a pair of long leather gaiters, buckled high above his knee, protecting his thin shanks through moss and pool; and the singularity of his appearance was heightened by a wide-leafed felt hat, over which he had tied his handkerchief, so as to bring the leaf of it over his ears, and to secure it from being whirled from his head by the storm.
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