Note 210 — Chapter II · RABAT.

“The young men,” says Marmol, writing in the middle of the sixteenth century, “shave the head and beard until they are married, when they allow the beard to grow, and the tuft of hair on the crown of the head.”—Africa, vol. ii. p. 3.

“Men of all ranks and conditions,” says a writer at the beginning of the last century, “are obliged to wear caps after they are married; and till then all their youths, even the king’s sons themselves, commonly go bareheaded. They wear no hair under their red caps (but are close shaved), except a lock upon the top of their heads.”—An Account of Barbary, p. 42.