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Show What to Do When Starving-. ' A survivor of the hardships of Fremont's Fre-mont's terrible four eipeditions writes as follows in a posthumous narrative of the expedition printed in The Century, in which he more than hints at the fact of cannibalism : It was curious to hear different men tell of the workings of the mind when they were starving. Some were constantly con-stantly dreaming or imagining that they saw before them a bountiful feast, and would make selections of difleront dishes. Others engaged their minds with other thoughts. For my part J kept my mind amused by entering continually con-tinually into all the minutiae of farming, farm-ing, or of some other systematic business busi-ness which would keep up a train of thought, or by working a mental solution solu-tion of mathematical problems, bringing bring-ing in review the rudiments of some science, or by laying out plans for the future, all having a connection with home and niter life. So in this way never allowing myself to think upon the hopelessness of our condition, yet always keeping my eyes open to every chance, I kept hope alive and never once suffered myself to despond. de-spond. Arid to this course X greatly attribute at-tribute my support, for there were stronger men who, by worrying them-Belves, them-Belves, doubtless hastened their death. Ten out of our party of thirty-three that entered the mountains had perished, per-ished, and a fow days more would have ' finished the others. |
