SC - Cannibals
Kathleen M Everitt
kathe1 at juno.com
Sun Oct 26 21:01:58 PST 1997
>The Donner party were famously unlucky immigrants from, what, Missouri
>(?) to California, c. 1849 or so. They had the misfortune to enter the
>foothills of the Sierra Nevadas just as the first snowfall of winter
>fell, meaning that a trip across the mountains, scheduled to last, and
>be adequately supplied for, perhaps a week, suddenly became a journey
>of
>perhaps four or five months. Some members of the group eventually
>began
>to eat their dead, and still later killed a couple of guides
>specifically for food. Some of them left diaries which have to be seen
>to be believed, and are among the most heart-rending documents in
>human
>history.
>
><sigh> Adamantius
Very true. They'd bring tears to the eyes of the most hard-hearted. Had
me sobbing hysterically!
Julleran
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