[meteorite-list] What are the latest Iron Falls?

Darren Garrison cynapse at charter.net
Fri Mar 11 17:22:20 EST 2005


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:08:52 -0500 (EST), Jeffrey Shallit <elvis at graceland.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>Peary, not Perry.  It's my understanding that Peary actually gave the
>natives lots of iron that was more suitable for making tools in return
>for the meteorites.  Maybe I'm wrong, and I'm sure Peary was a man of his
>time with attitudes of that time, but maybe it's not a simple case of theft
>as you imply.

You may be right, I've just never seen that part of the story.



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