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.

William