"When the poor first began to eat human flesh, the horror and astonishment that such extraordinary meals aroused were …"

"Nothing was more common than this kind of thing, and it would be difficult to find in the length and breadth of Egypt…"

"A merchant friend of mine... had seen five children's heads in a single cauldron, cooked with the choicest spices."

"I presented to the king of this place... a quantity of salt which he accepted and he sent to me two most comely slave…"

"Pharaoh is he who eats men and lives on gods... Their big ones are for his morning meal, their middle-sized ones are …"

"The people called the Bucoli​ [Boukoloi] began a disturbance in Egypt and under the leader­ship of one Isidorus, a pr…"

"A group of these Blacks who eat the sons of Adam came to the Sultan Mansā Sulaimān with their amir. It is their custo…"

"They have shambles for human flesh as we have of animals, even eating the enemies they have killed in battle, and sel…"

"Both he and many of Ibrahim's party had been frequent witnesses to acts of cannibalism, during their residence among …"

"They went further, and reached the stage of eating little children. It was not unusual to find people [selling] littl…"