His head was enormous, and he never lay on a bed for thirty years, passing his nights in a chair, generally reading or writing.

He only ate once in twenty-four or thirty hours, never warmed himself, and never used warm water.

His knowledge was said to have been great and encyclopedic, and he pretended never to have heard the proverb of Borghini.

There is related the account of a Moor, who was seen in Tunis early in this century, thirty-one years of age, of middle height, with a head so prodigious in dimensions that crowds flocked after him in the streets.

His nose was quite long, and his mouth so large that he could eat a melon as others would an apple.