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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
It's a bit odd that no one picked up on the OP's drug addled assumption that cannibalism meant "killing" the girl in order to eat her. Jamestown was rife in that year with disease and the local natives basically had them on lock down and they couldn't venture out of the fort.
Most of them died of starvation and disease and towards the end, some ate the remains of others as well as rats, shoe leather etc.
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i did, what's the point of pointing that out though? it's only in the 2nd paragraph of the article, the op didn't get that far.
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Facing a period of starvation in the winter of 1609-1610 when about 80 percent of the colonists died, some apparently tried to dig into the brain of a child who had already died, said anthropologists at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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