27 February 2012

Necessity

New favorite sentence of Wikipedia: “Slaughtering and eating their horses, they melted down stirrups, spurs, horseshoes and other metal items, and fashioned a bellows from deerhide to make a fire hot enough to forge tools and nails.” From Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, easily among the most incredible true stories I have ever heard.

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