90 miles south of key west, Florida
Putting over 12,000 already weak men together in a ramshackle camp with little food was a recipe for disaster from the start.
The men subsisted on a concoction called “firecake”–flour and water mixed together and baked in iron kettles.
As the men were out “Hunting and Gathering” the women stayed back and was at their camps. Keep in mind that they didn’t stay in the same spot. They mostly followed the massive herds of buffalo and or bison.
