Travels Of Marco Polo: Eighty Eight

When a man goes from Kinsai, he enters the kingdom of Fugui (Modern day Fuzhou) and after travelling seven days, he finds houses and villages, of idolaters.  They have provisions in great abundance; with numerous wild beasts for hunting; also large and fierce lions.  They have ample supply of ginger and galangal, so that for a Venetian grosso you can buy eighty pounds.  And there is a fruit or flower having the appearance of saffron, and though not really so, yet of equal value, being much employed in manufacture.  They eat flesh of filthiest animals, and even that of a man, provided he has not died a natural death; but if he has been killed, they account his flesh extremely delicate.  When they go to war, they cut their hair very close, and paint their faces an azure colour like the iron of lance.  They all fight on foot, except their chief; and are the most cruel race in the world, because, they go about whole day killing men, drinking their blood and eating their flesh