Things happened. Lessons were learned. Those responsible were taken outside and shot.
Everyone was dead: When Europeans first came to B.C., they stepped into the aftermath of a holocaust
Everyone was dead: When Europeans first came to B.C., they stepped into the aftermath of a holocaust
Everywhere they looked, there were corpses. Abandoned, overgrown villages were littered with skulls; whole sections of coastline strewn with bleached, decayed bodies. "The skull, limbs, ribs and backbones, or some other vestiges of the human body, were found in many places, promiscuously scattered about the beach in great numbers," wrote explorer George Vancouver in what is now Port Discovery, Wash.
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