The skins of animals covered him in part, and his broad chest and limbs were fully exposed to the air, the balminess of which, however, precluded anything like suffering.
The giant’s beard hung low and in a tangled mass upon his chest.
His hair was down upon his shoulders from beneath a heavy fur cap.
Indeed he presented the appearance of a type of prehistoric man.
In his hand he carried a huge club, and he was regarding the Explorer with much of surprise.
Our voyagers gazed upon him with deepest wonderment.
“Heavens!” gasped Frank Reade, Jr., “what a powerful fellow that is!”
“He is a shade heavier than an Esquimau,” said Roger.
“I should say so!”
“Bejabers, did yez iver see the loikes?” cried Barney, excitedly. “Shure, if he iver got a hold upon us he’d crush the loife out of us.”