The colour of his skin was not quite black, but very tawny; and yet not an ugly, yellow, nauseous tawny, as the Brazilians and Virginians, and other natives of America are, but of a bright kind of a dun olive-colour, that had in it something very agreeable, though not very easy to describe.
Su piel no era negra sino muy tostada, carente de ese tono amarillento de los brasileños, los nativos de Virgina y otros aborígenes americanos; podría decirse que, más bien, era de una aceitunado muy agradable, aunque difícil de describir.