The charge of cannibalism against the members of the Greeley expedition, and the horrors of Cape Sabine are yet fresh in our memory, and the sufferings of the men during that long, bitter winter of 1884 have not half been told. A leading journal in its graphic description of their privations, makes use of this language: “After the game gave out early in February, we have good reason to believe the men were kept alive on human flesh. When the rescuing party discovered the half-starved survivors, their first duty was to look to the two men who were insensible from cold and privation even to the point of death. One of them, a German, was wild in his delirium. ‘Oh!’ he shrieked, as the sailors took hold of him to lift him tenderly, ‘don’t let them shoot me as they did poor Henry! Must I be killed and eaten as poor Henry was? Don’t let them do it! Don’t! Don’t!’ The sailors were horrified, but at once reported the man’s words to Commander Schley. After a brief investigation he felt satisfied that the poor fellow was speaking the truth, and that some of the men who perished had been stripped of their flesh to keep their starving companions alive. When the horrible reality was brought out before an investigating committee, it was not allowed to rest solely on this poor sufferer’s oral testimony. A critical investigation was made by Dr. Ames, the surgeon of the Bear, and others, who made reports in writing, which are now in the Navy Department at Washington. Lieut. Greeley was adverse to having the bodies of the buried dead disturbed, but Commander Schley had a different opinion. The bodies were dug from their graves in the little hill just back of the permanent camp, established in 1883. Most of the blankets contained nothing but heaps of white bones, many of them _picked clean_. The remains could be identified only by the marks on the blankets.