It mentioned these white people were tall: evidence of WHITE white people also...with blond hair and blue and green eyes. One such collection of stories in L. Taylor Hansen's "He Walked the Americas"
I would imagine his idea of "light" and our idea of "light" would be substantially different after literally years among the Indians.
There are "clear eyed" people among the Chinese. Look just like Chinese too, except they have "clear eyes".
The Japanese royal families (yup, more than one) have some "clear eyed" folks ~ look typically Japanese otherwise.
Some of them tan deeply anyway.