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English: This is a scan of the diary from the Bancroft Library, the text reads "Thursd. 25th froze hard last night fine & sunshiny to day wind W. Mrs Murphy says the wolves are about to dig up the dead bodies at her shanty, the nights are too cold to watch them, we hear them howl -Frid 26th froze hard last night to day clear & warm Wind S: E: blowing briskly Marthas jaw swelled with the toothache: hungry times in camp, plenty hides but the folks will not eat them we eat them with a tolerable good apetite. Thanks be to Almighty God. Amen Mrs Murphy said here yesterday that thought she would Commence on Milt. & eat him. I dont that she has done so yet, it is distressing. The Donnos told the California folks that they commence to eat the dead people 4 days ago, if they did not succeed that day or next in finding their cattle then under ten or twelve feet of snow & did not know the spot or near it, I suppose they have done so ere this time"
Date February 25-26, 1847
Source Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2489p1zq/?brand=oac4
Author Patrick Breen wrote the page

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A page from the diary of Patrick Breen, the first member of the Donner Party to be cannibalized.

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