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The skulls of their enemies, not indeed of all, but of those whom
they most detest, they treat as follows. Having sawn off the portion
below the eyebrows, and cleaned out the inside, they cover the outside
with leather. When a man is poor, this is all that he does; but if
he is rich, he also lines the inside with gold: in either case the
skull is used as a drinking-cup. They do the same with the skulls of
their own kith and kin if they have been at feud with them, and have
vanquished them in the presence of the king. When strangers whom they
deem of any account come to visit them, these skulls are handed round,
and the host tells how that these were his relations who made war upon
him, and how that he got the better of them; all this being looked
upon as proof of bravery.
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