"Birds were boiling in their pots, also geese mixed with bits of human flesh, while other parts of human bodies were fixed on spits, ready for roasting. Upon searching another house the Spaniards found arm and leg bones, which the cannibals carefully preserve for pointing their arrows; for they have no iron. All other bones, after the flesh is eaten, they throw aside."
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Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, De Orbe Novo, The First Decade, books 1 and 2 (1530, translated by Francis Augustus MacNutt, 1912), on cannibalism ascribed to the Kalinago or Caribs
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