A scouting party for the notorious Cossack Yermak, lost and starving to death, was rescued by a local Asiatic tribe. The scouts "repaid" the kindness by declaring themselves to be the de-facto rulers, at least until the reinforcements arrived. After gorging for several weeks on the villager's stored food, the scout's cleaned out their entire stock, forcing them to turn on the villagers themselves - thirteen people were killed and eaten, and the rest fled into the wilderness. The Cossacks then spent this last-dtich source in a matter of days, leaving them to try cannibalizing the corpses in the village's burial mound, based on an assumption that the freezing temperatures would have preserved any corpses there. However, when the Cossacks dug up and dethawed their first body (a woman in her e