>>|They also eat seal liver that would kill you and me. >> > <<snip>> Recently I read something about the disastrous consequences of a ballooning expedition to the North Pole which was badly outfitted and planned.. It was the one that Amundsen died while trying to effect a rescue of some of the personnel. The last group, with the balloon, had landed on a huge ice floe somewhere up there. By the time rescuers reached them they were all dead, not from the cold but from having eaten the livers of polar bears they'd shot for food. Recollections are dim now, but I recall that these livers are loaded with one of the vitamins, such as D or E which in high concentrations are fatal, but the victims didn't know that...... Anybody else remember this? *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 09 1999 - 17:49:26 PST
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