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204 A PAIR OF WHISKERS,

   

PLEASED
«A SKETCH

OF MY FIGURE AS

FOLLOWs.”

  

expect from aman
not at all careful
of it, and living
within nineteen
degrees of the
equinox. My
beard I had once suffered to grow till it was about a quarter of 4
yard long; but as I had both scissors and razors sufficient, I had
cut it pretty short, except what grew on my upper lip, which I
had trimmed into a large pair of Mohammedan whiskers, such as [
have seen worn by some Turks whom I saw at Sallee; for the
Moors did not wear such, though the Turks did. Of these
moustaches or whiskers I will not say they were long enough to
hang my hat upon them; but they were of a length and shape