"“It was midnight when the camp followers went out to attack. It was thus managed: one horseman mounted a horse and took ten to twenty others; each attached to the tail of the horse preceding it, and drove them just like a string of camels. When it was one watch after sunrise I saw them come back. Every horseman had loaded up all his horses with plundered property, and a top of it rode the girl-captives and the slaves. The severed heads were tied up in rugs like bundles of grains and placed on the heads of the captives.... After afternoon prayer an order was given to carry the severed heads to the entrance gates of the chief minister’s quarters, where they were entered in registers, and then built up into heaps and pillars. Each man, in accordance with the number of heads he had brought in, received, after they had been counted, five rupees a head from the state. Then the heads were stuck upon lances and were taken to the gate of the chief minister. It was an extraordinary display! Wherever your glance fell nothing else was to be perceived but severed heads stuck upon lances, and the number could not be less than stars in the heaven”. Daily did this manner of slaughter and plundering proceed. It was a marvellous state of things, this slaying and capturing, and no whit inferior to the day of Last Judgment."