He wears this mark of his nationality either hanging down his back or else coiled about the head.

When at work the latter style is preferred, as it is then out of the way of his movements.

Some of the men whom you meet have fine intellectual heads.

The merchants and scholars whom I saw answer to this description.

As a rule they can all read and write.
They have a love of knowledge to a certain point, and a book is prized by them.