On Monday, August 8, 2005, at 08:41  PM, Keith Thomas wrote:

> Me too.  I was at a lecture by Kerin O'Dea last week. She said, in
> effect, that CR was not the way of
> the tribal Australian Aboriginals.  They had not trouble eating three
> kg (say 7 lb) cooked kangarro
> flesh at a sitting.

I recall reading that early white settlers in America were astonished
at the sheer volume of meat the native Americans could eat at one
sitting. They thought the natives were storing up for the winter.