When ... I saw him ['Abdu'l-Baha] for the first time he was about
sixty-seven years of age, about the medium height, with a strong frame and symmetrical
features. His face was deeply furrowed and his complexion about the shade of parchment.
His carriage was erect and his form strikingly majestic and beautiful. His hands
and nails were shapely and pure. His silver hair touched his shoulders. His beard
was snow white, with eyes light blue and penetrating, his nose somewhat aquiline.
His voice was powerful, but capable of infinite pathos, tenderness and
sympathy. His dress was that of the Oriental gentleman of rank, simple and neat,
yet very graceful. The color of his apparel was light, the outer robe being made
of alpaca. On his head rested a light fez surrounded by a white turban. The meekness
of the servant, the majesty of the king, were in that brow and form·
- Louis Gregory (From his pilgrimage in 1911; ‘To Move the World’, by Gayle Morrison)
