California Historical Society, & Internet Archive. (1922). California Historical Society quarterly (pp. 169–170). San Francisco, California Historical Society. https://archive.org/details/californiahistor74cali. Stewart then
quoted Trudeau's words as reported by Wise: "eat
baby raw, stewed some of Jake [Donner] and roasted
his head, not good meat, taste like sheep with the
rot."24 After accepting Wise’s report at face value,
Stewart then commented with dark humor on
Trudeau’s later denial of the cannibalism: "when I
consider such hypocrisy I feel the longing for the
society of an honest cannibal!"