The Woman Who Survived A Shipwreck, Starvation, And Isolation — The Incredible Story Of Marguerite De La Rocque
You cannot plant seeds in June and eat the harvest before winter kills you, not in the climate of the Gulf of St.
Lawrence.
The seeds represented either a very optimistic view of how long she might survive on existing provisions before needing to farm, or a calculated gesture that provided the appearance of concern for her welfare without much practical substance.
The Bible was the kind of provision a Catholic of the sixteenth century would consider essential — not just for morale but for the spiritual welfare of a soul in extremis.
Marguerite was, by all accounts, a devout woman, and the accounts of her time on the island consistently mention prayer and faith as elements of her psychological survival.
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