We've got a fair chance o' goin' un'er yet, eyther from thirst or the famishment o' empty stomaks.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid
Thei avoide also diseases, and famishment, with causyng the armie to kepe no misrule, for that to purpose to maintain it in health, it is nedefull to provide, that the souldiours maie slepe under tentes, that thei maie lodge where bee Trees, that make shadowe, where woodde is for to dresse their meate, that thei go not in the heate, and therefore thei muste bee drawen out of the campe, before daie in Summer, and in Winter, to take hede that thei marche not in the Snowe, and in the Froste, without havyng comoditie to make fire, and not to lack necessarie aparel, nor to drink naughtie water: those that fall sicke by chaunce, make them to bee cured of Phisicions: bicause a capitain hath no reamedie, when he hath to faight with sicknesse, and with an enemie: but nothing is so profitable, to maintaine the armie in health, as is the exercise: and therfore the antiquitie every daie, made them to exercise: wherby is seen how muche exercise availeth: for that in the Campe, it kepeth thee in health, and in the faight victorious.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli
On many plantations, and particularly in Louisiana, the slaves are in a condition of almost utter famishment during a great portion of the year."
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society