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Nostromo : A Tale of the Seaboard nosed face with black mustaches and little side-whiskers. He was extremely dirty. A greasy growth of beard was sprouting on the shaven parts of the cheeks. The thick lips were slightly parted, but the eyes remained closed. Decoud, to his immense astonishment, recognized Señor Hirsch, the hide-merchant from Esmeralda. Nostromo, too, had recognized him; and they gazed at each other across that body lying with its naked feet higher than its head in an absurd pretence of sleep, faintness, or death.