Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-22
EXCELLENT CARVING.
The Meat Neatly Taken From The
Dead Explorers Bodies.

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Dead Explorers Bodies.
New YORK, Aug. l9.-[Special. IL
Until the death of Dr.. Pavy, of the
Greedy party, June q, the flesh out
from most Of the bodies was removed
by hand skilled in dissection. A
few Of the bodies had the flesh por-
tlons cut awry entirely, but with the
majority the work had been so well
done that a casual observer would
not have suspected, without other ev-
idcncc, Of which there was plenty,
how ever, that the survivors had been
reduced TO cannibalism, and had for
a long time been subsistlng princi-
pally on the bodies oftheir dead COM
rades.
1t was not coincidence that the
body of DR.. Pavy, with those two
others who died after him, should be
reported as washed away. With
Surgeon Pavy gone the scalpel could
not be used. Before, the bodies had
been left with little mark of the ter
riblc work done. After his death
the survivors were forced to dismem-
Der and denude their flesh in any
that left nothing but the bones. So
these unfortunatcs were reported as
buried in an ice foe and washed
away, and To the list was added the
sailor who died June 3, and Sergeait
Hill, who died on April 8. On most
Of the bodies the scalpcl was passed
under the skin, the flap laid back,
the flesh removed, the skin pulled
back in place aud the edges joined SO
there was no external evidence of the
work. No one in the party except
the surgeon could so skillfully r..
move the flesh and leave the skin in.
tact. How Pavy met his death has
not been explained, but it was prob.
ably by the knife. With him gol e
and every day the pangs of hunger
growing more nnbuarablc, the cail
ton was relaxed, and the survivor,
eat of human flesh, however they
could easiest secure it. In the las
days before relief came all sense o
honor and of feeling had been lost.
Long was the strongest of the par
lty, and was able to walk 10 tht
launch. Frcdericks had considcrabl,
strength left, and clambcred Oh boar,
the ThetiS almost unaidcd. Ii wa
seldom the men stood upright The!
crawlcd about on hands and knees
aud when Brainard was undrcssc,
Oh the ''hctis his knees were foum,
llouscd to n thickness of over hal
anin;h. In the midst ofsuch horror
1t was wondered by the rcscuing par,'
how Greedy and his companions KEEP
their reason. About the camp wer
: scattered the bones Of the dead AM
disscctcd, and mutilatcd bodies wcr
half exposed in the burial plot bac
of the tent.
h 1t was u scene al which the rcscueI
N shuddercd. The bodies of those VIII
died natural deaths were not mutila
= ted, but death had been caused b
disease. AS to how many died G
scurvy accounts differ. 1t is feare
. others met death as Henry did.
Is known that cOurt-martials wer
frequent in the camp. DR.. Pavy wa
on trial. There were dissensiol
among the men, yet, until weakcnc
in body and mind by privation, eac
= did all he could for the others. Bt
= at the last, the struggle for life b'
came single. 1t was each man f'
himself The officers Of the reli'
vessel still refuse TO say anything o
the subject. The sailors talk freel.
: but some of the scenes they deScril
are too revolving for publication.
WHAT KisLINGBURy HAD EATEN.
ROCHESTER,, N. y, Aug. 16.-Ye
terday, with magnific glasses, DIR
Chas. and Jas. Buckley, Mendevil
and Baker and Lawrence made a
examination of the matter found !
the intestines of Kislingbury's bod
yesterday. 1t is composed of sewers
substances-hair, woody and veg
table fibre, minute shells (not scale
and mucles and flesh. OF this thel
can be no mistake. Hair and shel
predominatc in the mass, and whit
iappchrs to be the stems of moss wei
seen. One gray hair is plain to
seen. The muscle has the appcaran,
of the end of a severed tendon. III
fact is quite suggestive.
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