reeches were made of the skin of an old he-goat, whose hair hung down
such a length on either side that, like pantaloons, it reached to the
middle of my legs; stockings and shoes I had none, but had made me a pair
of somethings, I scarce knew what to call them, like buskins, to flap
over my legs, and lace on either side like spatterdashes, but of a most
barbarous shape, as indeed were all the rest of my clothes.

I had on a broad belt of goat's skin dried, which I drew together with
two thongs of the same instead of buckles, and in a kind of a frog on
either side of this, instead of a sword and dagger, hung a little saw and
a hatchet, one on one side and one on the other. I had another belt not
so broad, and fastened in the same manner, which hung over my shoulder,
and at the end of it, under my left arm, hung two pouches, both made of
goat's skin too, in one of which hung my powder, in the other my shot.
At my back I carried my basket, and on my shoulder my gun, and over my
head a great clumsy, ugly, goat's-skin umbrella, but which, after all,
was the most necessary thing I had about me next to my gun. As for my
face, the colour of it was really not so mulatto-like as one might expect
from a man not at all careful of it, and living within nine or ten
degrees of the equinox. 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.

But all this is by-the-bye; for as to my figure, I had so few to observe
me that it was of no manner of consequence, so I say no more of that. In
this kind of dress I went my new journey, and was out five or six days.
I travelled first along the sea-shore, directly to the place where I
first brought my boat to an anchor to get upon the rocks; and having no
boat now to take care of, I went over the land a nearer way to the same
height that I was upon before, when, looking forward to the points of the
rocks which lay out, and which I was obliged to double with my boat, as
is said above, I was