"Since he never fed the ten or twenty thousand impressed natives in his army, he gave them leave to eat the prisoners they took, thus setting the royal seal of approval on the establishment, in his camp, of a human abattoir where he himself would preside over the slaughter and grilling of children and where grown men were butchered for the sake of their hands and feet which were generally held to be the best cuts."
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552), edited and translated by Nigel Griffin (London: Penguin, 2004), pp.62–63, on how Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado forced his indigenous auxiliaries to resort to cannibalism in order to survive
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