His mother had been a full-blooded Cherokee; it was from her that he had inherited his coloring-the iodine skin, the dark, moist eyes, the black hair, which he kept brilliantined and was plentiful enough to provide him with sideburns and a slippery spray of bangs.
harengandik zetorkion kolorea: iodina koloreko azala, begi ilun bustiak, ile beltza, beti olioztatua edukitzen zuena, eta patila eta kopetan ile-sorta oliotsua ere izateko bezain ugaria.