Now, these Troglodytes all lived in caverns, which were formed partly by art and partly by nature, although art must have had most to do with the construction of such vast subterranean works.
They lived in great communities in caverns, and they had long tunnels passing from one community to another.

Here also they kept their cattle.

Some of these people have survived even to our own age; for Bruce, the Abyssinian traveller, saw them in Nubia.
"The earliest writer who mentions the Troglodytes was Agatharcides, of Cnidos.

According to him they were chiefly herdsmen.

Their food was the flesh of cattle, and their drink a mixture of milk and blood.