Some more specific stories will come in other chapters. But keep in mind that this is an academic book, so it's limited to what is documented in the historical record. It may be the job of the reader's imagination to fill in the details.

Another interesting little detail I found in one of the endnotes:

52. Rotours, “Encore quelques notes,” 26–27. Associations between the washing of people and their subsequent butchering have also been reported from elsewhere in the world. In the mid-nineteenth century, a Batak (from Sumatra) working in the neighboring Malay Peninsula, upon “seeing his master’s child washed, made the following remark: ‘In our country it would not be necessary to wash that child [who apparently looked quite clean]; he might be roasted at once’” (quoted in Yule, Cathay, 86n). This must have been a joke, as the servant certainly knew that “his master’s child” was not about to be eaten, but it seems that he regarded the washing of a child as part of the preparations of a cannibal meal. As cannibalism was practiced in Sumatra (see Chapter 3, this volume), he might have heard about or even witnessed similar scenes at home.