He is described as 23-24 years old, 6ft-6ft 2 inches tall, of medium build with straight, mousy shoulder-length hair, oval faced and clean shaven, wearing a khaki-coloured army style jacket.
Her glance took in Waddington in a pair of Chinese trousers and a pongee coat, the houseboy holding a hurricane lamp, and a little further back three Chinese soldiers in khaki.
And presently, as today, she found the features of Korak slowly dissolve and merge into those of another, and the figure of a tanned, half-naked tarmangani become a khaki clothed Englishman astride a hunting pony.