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aethelflaedel · 1 day ago
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went to the polar research institute in cambridge today!!! I was mainly hunting for franklin exhibition stuff (the terror has infected my brain), but the antarctic expedition stuff was fascinating too. especially the endurance- the fact that shackleton managed to get all the men out is insane???
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^^ plus a shaky pic of my gift shop goodies™ since I'm currently in a moving vehicle
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3liza · 7 months ago
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https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/theyre-not-human-how-19th-century-inuit-coped-with-a-real-life-invasion-of-the-walking-dead
Indigenous groups across the Americas had all encountered Europeans differently. But where other coastal groups such as the Haida or the Mi’kmaq had met white men who were well-fed and well-dressed, the Inuit frequently encountered their future colonizers as small parties on the edge of death.
“I’m sure it terrified people,” said Eber, 91, speaking to the National Post by phone from her Toronto home.
And it’s why, as many as six generations after the events of the Franklin Expedition, Eber was meeting Inuit still raised on stories of the two giant ships that came to the Arctic and discharged columns of death onto the ice.
Inuit nomads had come across streams of men that “didn’t seem to be right.” Maddened by scurvy, botulism or desperation, they were raving in a language the Inuit couldn’t understand. In one case, hunters came across two Franklin Expedition survivors who had been sleeping for days in the hollowed-out corpses of seals.
“They were unrecognizable they were so dirty,” Lena Kingmiatook, a resident of Taloyoak, told Eber.
Mark Tootiak, a stepson of Nicholas Qayutinuaq, related a story to Eber of a group of Inuit who had an early encounter with a small and “hairy” group of Franklin Expedition men evacuating south.
“Later … these Inuit heard that people had seen more white people, a lot more white people, dying,” he said. “They were seen carrying human meat.”
Even Eber’s translator, the late Tommy Anguttitauruq, recounted a goose hunting trip in which he had stumbled upon a Franklin Expedition skeleton still carrying a clay pipe.
By 1850, coves and beaches around King William Island were littered with the disturbing remnants of their advance: Scraps of clothing and camps still littered with their dead occupants. Decades later, researchers would confirm the Inuit accounts of cannibalism when they found bleached human bones with their flesh hacked clean.
“I’ve never in all my life seen any kind of spirit — I’ve heard the sounds they make, but I’ve never seen them with my own eyes,” said the old man who had gone out to investigate the Franklin survivors who had straggled into his camp that day on King William Island.
The figures’ skin was cold but it was not “cold as a fish,” concluded the man. Therefore, he reasoned, they were probably alive.
“They were beings but not Inuit,” he said, according to the account by shaman Nicholas Qayutinuaq.
The figures were too weak to be dangerous, so Inuit women tried to comfort the strangers by inviting them into their igloo.
But close contact only increased their alienness: The men were timid, untalkative and — despite their obvious starvation — they refused to eat.
The men spit out pieces of cooked seal offered to them. They rejected offers of soup. They grabbed jealous hold of their belongings when the Inuit offered to trade.
When the Inuit men returned to the camp from their hunt, they constructed an igloo for the strangers, built them a fire and even outfitted the shelter with three whole seals.
Then, after the white men had gone to sleep, the Inuit quickly packed up their belongings and fled by moonlight.
Whether the pale-skinned visitors were qallunaat or “Indians” — the group determined that staying too long around these “strange people” with iron knives could get them all killed.
“That night they got all their belongings together and took off towards the southwest,” Qayutinuaq told Dorothy Eber.
But the true horror of the encounter wouldn’t be revealed until several months later.
The Inuit had left in such a hurry that they had abandoned several belongings. When a small party went back to the camp to retrieve them, they found an igloo filled with corpses.
The seals were untouched. Instead, the men had eaten each other.
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wimbledon2008 · 4 months ago
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sorry boss i can't come in today. yeah they positively identified james fitzjames's remains and his bones have cut marks consistent with cannibalism
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buildoblivion · 4 months ago
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i’m sorry boss I can’t come into work tomorrow they’ve identified the remains of a doomed polar explorer
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jeyneofpoole · 28 days ago
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they don’t tell you this but when you (history major) find your one thing (lifelong obsession) the entire span of human history narrows down into before the thing and after the thing. i experience time in bfe and afe (before franklin expedition and after franklin expedition) and 1845 is like an angel to me. i have developed a parasocial relationship with a YEAR. it can happen to you too don’t act so coy you’re not better than me
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hacash · 4 months ago
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the terror's historical accuracy game's so good, they were referencing historical events before anyone actually knew they happened
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armisteadrevellion · 3 months ago
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hi terror fandom im new
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pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong · 5 months ago
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number one funniest bit in amc the terror is when hickey is aggressively singing the british national anthem into the arctic abyss to try and summon the local magic polar bear while everyone around him is throwing up and dying from goodsir's poisoned ass meat
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the-web-of-iris · 1 year ago
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Thanks Google, just what I wanted!
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frnzbv · 8 months ago
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Little animated The Terror gif I made for a class, be gentle, it’s my first time animating 😭
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cockroachesunite · 2 months ago
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James Fitzjames in his letter to John Barrow Jr. 10th July 1845
(transcript from May We Be Spared To Meet On Earth)
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philtrashnumberunus · 2 months ago
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amc specializes in book-inspired period pieces where gay people eat each other and the secondary protagonist has an astonishing jawline and a fuckass bob
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crancisfrozier · 3 months ago
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SO UH??? A THING JUST HAPPENED???? So while I waited for my bus to Belfast I decided to sit on the steps of Crozier’s childhood home and read his letters from May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth. While doing so, a very very nice woman came up to me and asked what I was reading and what I was in town for. Well it turns out she works in the building!! And when she heard I was in town just to see the statue and his home she offered to give me a tour of what she could!!!! Guys I almost started CRYING I GOT TO STAND IN THE PLACE HE GREW UP IM STILL SHAKING!! And they have a picture of his daguerreotype in the building too 😭😭😭
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xintract · 2 months ago
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RIP Sir John Franklin you would have loved this mug
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slow-burn-sally · 4 months ago
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jeyneofpoole · 4 months ago
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