History of the Khaljis, A.D. 1290–1320 c11.13

c11.13

¹⁰ Vincent of Beavois says that the Mughals were accustomed to eat their bitterest enemies, and to suck their blood. (Yule: *Ser Marco Polo*, Vol. I, p. 30). Carpini writes that in one of the Mongol sieges in China when the army was without food, one man in ten of their own force was sacrificed to feed the rest (Howorth, Pt. IV, p. 53). He gives a horrid account of the dirty feeding of the Mughals. He says that they ate dogs, wolves, foxes, rats and horses.