[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I am going to be culturally indelicate so the easily offended people should probably leave now.

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Okay. Now that they have left, the women, and there were probably more then one, were not there to hunt seals. They were there to process the catch, cook, maintain the camp and provide for the hunters.... other needs.

[fidelis]

"I am going to be culturally indelicate..."

[waterhill]

Allright I’m in as long as Admr. Byrd, Nazi, and alien crap are not involved.

Everything else, yeah.

[Magnum44]

and provide for the hunters.... other needs.

Like making sandwiches…

[Dr. Franklin]

Okay. Now that they have left, the women, and there were probably more then one, were not there to hunt seals. They were there to process the catch, cook, maintain the camp and provide for the hunters.... other needs.

Well she could have been married to one of the men on the expedition and then met an untimely demise. It's more likely, an indigenous woman from southern Chile was a camp follower who saw an opportunity to make some money from the expedition.

[Valpal1]

Came here to say this.

Unheard of just means not talked or written about.

[SunkenCiv]

Definitely. She was probably basically the servant of whalers and died of natural causes, and was covered with whatever snow and ice could be chipped out to cover her.

I'd be very surprised if there aren't any prediscovery [sic] undocumented shipwrecks offshore (or onshore) in the Antarctic.

I've often wondered if this bit of Herodotus referred to calving icebergs off Antarctica as this expedition headed south along the east coast of Africa.

The History of Herodotus | Book I. The First Book of the Histories, Called Clio | Translated Into English by G. C. Macaulay | Project Gutenberg Ebook 2707

Therefore passing these by I shall make mention of the king who came after these, whose name was Sesostris. He (the priests said) first of all set out with ships of war from the Arabian gulf and subdued those who dwelt by the shores of the Erythraian Sea, until as he sailed he came to a sea which could no further be navigated by reason of shoals...

[Bigg Red]

That is what I was thinking. And perhaps they were brought there against their will. Bought as slaves?