“How did they prove the dogs were eaten out of desperation and not because they were made out of meat?”
Jamestown is just down the road from me. It us common knowledge they went through a rough period. They starved, were racked with disease, it fell apart and they had a river chock full of eel, sturgeon and oysters and they didn’t or couldn’t fish!
Plus they set up Jamestown in the middle of a mosquito infested malarial swamp. They could have gone 10 miles upriver and found good dry ground and much better water.
If they had gone up to Chesapeake Bay to the Choptank River they would have found peaceful tribes and plenty of waterfowl not to mention great fishing. It was an ill-conceived expedition which set up camp in one of the worst possible areas in the Tidewater region.
There’s even signs of at least one cast of cannibalism.
Jamestown was settled by a bunch of middle class city folk that had no idea how to handle a wilderness. They were woefully unprepared for what awaited them.
Dues that equate to desperation, or is it just eating what’s available?