"He then cut up the body into pieces, amputated the prominent parts from the shoulder, and the fleshy portions from th…"

"Cannibalism was another last resort for surviving famines. In the win­ter of 618–619 the army of a warlord, some 200,…"

"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 …"

"Such suffering from hunger grew up around these cities that the Christians, in the face of the scarcity about which y…"

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

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

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