ken from sailors.

When their head-dress is thus so far prepared, they cover it with a
greasy cloth, which surrounds their head, covers the one half of their
nose, and ties below their chin. To give a brilliancy to their eyes,
they comb the eye-lashes with a great copper needle, which they have
rubbed upon a blue stone. Next comes the adjustment of their drapery;
and here all the art lies in plaiting it neatly, and so as to keep the
folds, in doing which they employ neither pins, cords, nor sewing. But
that the work of the toilette may be complete, they paint the nails of
their feet and hands with a reddish colour. A Moorish woman, who wishes
to be considered as a beauty, must have long teeth shooting out of her
mouth; the flesh from the shoulder to the elbow loose and flabby; their
limbs, thighs and body, prodigiously thick; their gait slow and cramped.
They have bracelets like the collar of great Danish dogs upon their arms
and legs. In a word, they labour from their infancy to efface any
beauties for which they are indebted to nature, and to substitute in
their room ridiculous and disagreeable whims. They have no other dress
in all their wardrobe than what I have described. To add to the
inconveniences to which these women are subjected, let us only reflect,
that the same linen on which they are delivered of a child, they
receive its nastiness and blow their noses in; it is impossible to form
an idea sufficiently disgusting, of the nastiness and horrid smell of
the Moorish women.

Could one suppose that these hideous women are addicted to jealousy and
evil-speaking? It is, however, a truth. One of them has, perhaps,
occasion to go and borrow something from her neighbour. If she meets the
husband, she veils her face, and presently with a trembling air enters
the tent. But if the woman is by herself, she begins to speak all the
evil she can of any neighbour who is better drest. This conversation
goes on, when perhaps a third enters, who does not fail to lay in her
word, in such a manner, as that the one half of the day is spent in evil
speaking; and she very frequently goes away, probably without
recollecting to seek what she came to borrow. Laziness and gluttony are
also their favourite sins. They will expose themselves to numberless
affronts, in order to procure a little camel or goat's flesh, when they
know that it is dressing in any person's house. Their favourite morsel
is the liver.

The men are addicted to al