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Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage

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Identification of officer from Sir John franklin's Northwest Passage expedition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41723315

Franklin expedition captain who died in 1848 was cannibalized by survivors https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41706216

https://archive.ph/91UNX

> who died sometime in 1848

yecccch. major freezer burn.

Probably not even edible at this point. Should just throw him out.

The packaging says "best by" though. That doesn't mean it's bad, just not the best.

Cannibalism for survival is one of the greatest examples of man’s instinctual drive to stay alive. What a horrible fate to be in the cold with no escape and no food. I forget what movie it was, and forgive me if I am not 100% accurate about this but it’s vague memory, but I remember watching 3 guys stuck at sea and they were drawing straws. I think at first you got the impression that the guy who seemingly won would get something good but he was actually the one that had to kill himself and the others were going to eat him to survive. This article made me think of that. It made me wonder was the cannibalism happening after men already died or were they killed and eaten. Grimm times.

Well the term used to be "Custom of the Sea".

Traditionally, they knew what it was about when they drew straws. The case that often leads folks to learn about it, ironically was one where the rules weren't followed, and rather than drawing straws they decided to finish off someone in a (semi?)comatose state. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens

Assuming that the photo of the lower jaw is FitzJames' lower jaw, aren't there supposed to be more tooth holes on it? It looks like he only had about 12 teeth on his lower jaw.

I don't think there's anything odd about that given dental methods of the time. After teeth are extracted bone begins to fill in the holes and/or wither back if there are insufficient teeth.

Thanks. That explains the unusual spacing of teeth at the back of the jaw. He had likely lost some over the years and the remaining teeth scooted around to fill gaps. That must've made chewing food very uncomfortable for a long time.

I hope those guys brought along some fava beans and a good chianti.

If God didn't mean for people to eat people, they wouldn't be made of meat.

non paywall: https://archive.ph/5PBXf

Not working for me, is it just me?

Works for me.

I seem to remember that one of the services like this (maybe this one) didn't work with Cloudflare DNS, do you use that?

If not, maybe see if either of these domains works (they're both the same service as .ph): https://archive.is/5PBXf or https://archive.today/5PBXf

Thanks, those work

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