Anyway I'm reading this book about the Franklin Expedition and one of the things they had with them was rubber gloves lined with wool, which is simultaneously sort of genius for Englishmen but also can you imagine how manky those things got inside?
Your point about the rubber gloves is also really interesting to me, because sealskin is obtainable in Britain and Ireland. I guess I assumed they would be using that kind of thing but in my arch class we were never told about their clothing, just their food supplies.
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Inuit did help some of the survivors at the end but they were a family group who were subsistence hunters and not able to take on 40-50 starving white dudes. So they gave them the food they could spare and moved on.
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Ah okay, I misunderstood what we were told. There was something about how they weren’t far from more people? But this was maybe 10 years ago now when I learned about it.
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