So the Kronks may have gotten a bad rap, well ya learn something new every day. I think it was Fehrenbach who gives a description of them cooking and eating parts of a still-living prisoner, in front of the guy.
Way back East it seems to be an accepted truism that the Mohawks ate people, at least before the Eighteenth Century, and IIRC one of the things the backwood hick Ottawas hired by Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne in 1777 for the Saratoga Campaign did that appalled just everybody was boiling up and eating a prisoner.
LOL! Read some references that many of the NE fellas like you mentioned took prisoners not for slaves, but for sustenance to get ‘em back home. Steele’s book Betrayals on the fall of Fort William Henry, after Montcalm release of the prosoners used the reference of les Sauvages walking in amongst them ( the prisoners) poking and prodding them, squeezing their arms and legs, while licking their lips and smacking their chops, all the while making moaning sounds of eating a delicious meal! 🤣
I recall that account, and IIRC they eventually did eat the fattest prisoner.
But, turnabout is fair play, at least one Indian woman prisoner was killed by Robert Rogers hisself and eaten by him and his party on their hard retreat from the Saint Francis raid. A rotting scalped corpse was eaten raw by the famished men too IIRC. Several of Rogers' rangers were captured during that pursuit, and those is possession of human flesh summarily had their throats cut. Otherwise the captured rangers were treated surprisingly well for the most part.
A rotting corpse, raw, hard to imagine being that hungry.
