On Tue, 18 May 2004 21:39:05 +0000, william wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 20:33, WADE REESER wrote: > > > And I understand that traders and trappers often went for months in North > > America eating travel rations consisting of only pemmican and jerky made from > > meats. Again, not raw. > > > AFAIK the original pemmican was made from meat dried in sun and wind. > Surely this qualifies as raw. Debatable. But for one thing, I am talking about pemmican used by traders and trappers which uses heat to both dry the meat AND render the fat from books I've read e.g. Lewis and Clark travelogue. (that seemed clear, as you quoted that in my post...) Both the natives and trappers rendered the fat to make the pemmican. But what about my other example using Steffanson? Is this another selective nitpick while conveniently ignoring the gist of my email? Are spelling and grammer discussions next? W.