"On that island we seized twelve beautiful and very fat females, aged between fifteen and sixteen, with two boys of th…"

"The Cannibals, when they capture some Indians, eat them like we eat young goats, and they say that the flesh of a boy…"

"Peter Margarita, a Spaniard whose word cannot be impugned, went out to the Orient with the Admiral, attracted by the …"

"The Caribs ... sail to the neighboring islands, making their way by paddling to people who differ greatly in manners …"

"The inhabitants of Hispaniola, who are a mild people, complained that they were exposed to frequent attacks from the …"

"Birds were boiling in their pots, also geese mixed with bits of human flesh, while other parts of human bodies were f…"

"Most ferocious are those new anthropophagi, who live on human flesh, Caribs or cannibals as they are called."

"Since he never fed the ten or twenty thousand impressed natives in his army, he gave them leave to eat the prisoners …"

"Nay, so great was our famine, that a Salvage we slew and buried, the poorer sort tooke him up againe and eat him, and…"

"And now famine beginning to look ghastly and pale in every face (so) that nothing was spared to maintain life, and to…"