My beard I had once suffered to grow till it was about a quarter of a 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 Mahometan whiskers, such as I had seen worn by some Turks at Sallee, for the Moors did not wear such, though the Turks did; of these moustachios, or whiskers, I will not say they were long enough to hang my hat upon them, but they were of a length and shape monstrous enough, and such as in England would have passed for frightful.
Una vez me dejé crecer la barba casi una cuarta pero como tenía suficientes tijeras y navajas, la corté muy corta, excepto la que crecía sobre los labios que me arreglé a modo de bigotes mahometanos como los que usaban los turcos de Salé, pues, contrario a los moros, que no los utilizaban, los turcos los llevaban así. De estos mostachos o bigotes diré que eran lo suficientemente largos para colgar de ellos un sombrero de dimensiones tan monstruosas que en Inglaterra se consideraría espantoso.