 | Marco Polo - 1871
...dead they have him cooked, and gather together all the dead man's kin, and eat him. And I assure you they do suck the very bones till not a particle of...worms would die for want of food, and the death of those worms would be laid to the charge of the deceased man's soul. And so they eat him up stump and... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875
...dead they have him cooked, and gather together all the dead man's kin, and eat him. And I assure you they do suck the very bones till not a particle of...worms would die for want of food, and the death of those worms would be laid to the charge of the deceased man's soul. And so they eat him up stump and... | |
 | 1890
...kin and eat him. And I assure you that they suck the very bones till not a particle of marrow is left in them ; for they say that if any nourishment remained...worms would die for want of food, and the death of those worms would be laid to the charge of the deceased man's soul. And so they eat him up stump and... | |
 | Alexander Ruxton MacMahon, Alexander Buxton MacMahon - 1893 - 340 pages
...kin and eat him. And I assure you that they suck the very bones till not a particle of marrow is left in them ; for they say that if any nourishment remained...worms would die for want of food, and the death of those worms would be laid to the charge of the deceased man's soul. And so they eat him up stump and... | |
 | Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien - 1895
...man's kin and eat him. And I assure you they do suck the very bones till not a particle of marrows remains in them, for they say that if any nourishment...worms would die for want of food, and the death of those worms would be laid to the charge of the deceased man's soul. And so they eat him up stump and... | |
 | Marco Polo, Henri Cordier - 1903 - 1124 pages
...dead they have him cooked, and gather together all the dead man's kin, and eat him. And I assure you they do suck the very bones till not a particle of...worms would die for want of food, and the death of those worms would be laid to the charge of the deceased man's soul. And so they eat him up stump and... | |
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... condemned by the sorcerers to die. These men come, and lay so many clothes upon the sick man's mouth that they suffocate him. And when he is dead they have him cooked, and gather together all the dead man's kin, and eat him. And I assure you they... 