Storia do Mogor 265.15.6

265.15.6

Being resident in the city of Agrah, I went out for pastime, impelled by curiosity, to shoot peahens, doves, and pigeons, of which there are quantities in the gardens round that place. It happened once that, passing close to the place where Hindus are burned, I saw a man who removed from the pyre a portion of the burnt flesh of some corpse and ate it. It served him as sustenance, and he ate nothing else. I sent someone to call him, and I asked him the reason why he did not allow the body to be thoroughly consumed. He replied to me that the savour of human flesh was such that it forced him to dwell in that deserted place. I noticed that the man was tall, lean, harsh-looking, of a dejected countenance and taciturn, and reluctant to answer the few questions I put to him.