تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.19.1

13.19.1

During the Sultan's absence from his capital, when he set out for the land of Maʿbar, famine struck and things grew severe: the mann reached sixty dirhams and then rose higher. Conditions became hard and the calamity great. Once I went out to meet the vizier and saw three women cutting pieces from the hide of a horse that had died months before and eating them. Hides were cooked and sold in the markets, and when cattle were slaughtered people would take their blood and eat it!