Spaniards, Indians, and English all ate the green iguana as a delicacy

Evidence

A beast called a Guana bearing this shape and fashion as is here trulie portraicted it liueth on the land in the woodes and desert places, and is caught by the sauadge or Indian people who sell them to the Spaniards, they arc of a sad greene colour, and their bodie of the bignes of a connie, they are eaten by the Indians and Spaniards, and so likewise by vs for a very delicate meat, in the breeding time the femall is full of eggs in great number, and they of all the rest are estemmed the most delicate. — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2995

Categorization

• FICTION: A flesh-and-bones sensory detail — the crew eating iguana with eggs — for a provisioning/rest scene between battles.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2995