This is probably a question for Ted Davis, but I'd welcome answers from any
other source as well.
Friday's Denver Post had a column (from a Christian writer who often makes me
wince) which included the following:
"Think Jonah's whale of a tale is a fable? Check our Marshall Jenkins and
James Bartley, who separately shared similar and documented gastronomic
adventures and lived to tell about it."
I know that the James Bartley story is the one that commonly circulates and
that was so well dealt with by Ted Davis in his 1991 PSCF article:
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1991/PSCF12-91Davis.html
But I'm not familiar with a separate similar story involving a Marshall
Jenkins. With a Web search, I see a mention in a 1927 article reproduced at:
http://bizland.rosetree.com/read/jonah/jonah1.html
Has there been any investigation of the Jenkins account as there was for the
Bartley story?
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