"They strike open the wretched Indian's chest with flint knives and hastily tear out the palpitating heart which, with the blood, they present to the idols. … They cut off the arms, thighs and head, eating the arms and thighs at ceremonial banquets. The head they hang up on a beam, and the body is … given to the beasts of prey."
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Bernal Diaz: The Conquest of New Spain. Cited in "The Crimes of Christopher Columbus" by Dinesh D'Souza.
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