They cut off the heads of the slain, and tied them by the hair to the manes of their horses.

If a skull belonged to a person of rank, they nailed it up in their houses and preserved it as an heirloom for their posterity, as the nobles in rude ages do stag-horns.

Towns were rare amongst them; the houses and the villages, which were very numerous, were mean, the furniture wretched--a heap of straw covered with skins served both for a bed and a seat.

They did not cultivate corn save for a very limited consumption, for the main part of their food was the milk and the flesh of their cattle.

These formed their wealth.