The kidneys of both moose and buffalo were usually eaten _raw_ by the southern Indians, for no sooner was one of those beasts killed than the hunter ripped up its belly, snatched out the kidneys, and ate them warm, before the animal was quite dead.

They also at times put their mouths to the wound the ball or the arrow had made, and sucked the blood; this, they said, quenched thirst, and was very nourishing.
The favourite drink of the Ojibwe Indians in the wintertime was hot broth poured over a dishful of pure snow.
The Amerindians of the Nipigon country (north of Lake Superior) and the Ojibwes and Kris often relapsed into cannibalism when hard up for food.

Indeed some of them became so addicted to this practice that they simply went about stalking their fellow Indians with as much industry as if they were hunting animals.

"These prowling ogres caused such terror that to sight the track of one of them was sufficient to make twenty families decamp in all the speed of their terror" (Alexander Henry).

It was deemed useless to attempt any resistance when these monsters were coming to kill and eat.