由于复活节岛赖以生存的树木和土壤消失殆尽,岛上的人口大幅减少,幸存者转而以食人肉为生。
As the trees and soils on which the islanders depended disappeared, the population crashed and the survivors turned to cannibalism.
其后的探险者发现,有证据表明弗兰克林的队员甚至不得不靠食人肉来求存活,但由于饥馑、疾病的双重围困,加之暴露于严寒之下,最终无一生还。
Later explorers found evidence that Franklin's men had resorted to cannibalism before they finally died of hunger, disease and exposure.
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