Hunt on for family of 1848 sailors of the doomed Canadian expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Two ships were stuck in the ice in 1848. The men abandon the ships and tried to walk to safety it's possible that lead poisoning and the cold led to cannibalism and the eventual demise of all the sailors.
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The Franklin Expedition did not know they were suffering severe lead poisoning by the defective canning methods of the day. Inuit/Eskimos tried to help them but they were a walking dead suffering the effects of lead poisoning and could not understand. A very sad story that the locals passed down through oral tradition
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