The household of 11 adults plus children subsisted on two goats a week, honey from a hive in the garden and Quaker Oats from a local shop.
As recently as the early 1990s many Chinese mostly subsisted on a diet of vegetables bought at street markets.For Mr Lei, as for many of his countrymen, the years of deprivation are well within living memory.
When Labour took over, more than 5m working-age adults subsisted on state benefits.
Please ReprintsThe Ogiek have subsisted peacefully for centuries, hunting tree hyrax (tasty small furry mammals, improbably related to elephants) and harvesting honey.
Moreover, many of the Syrian Armenians in Armenia have subsisted on their savings so far.
Many who subsisted on bitter wild oranges succumbed to cholera, malaria and dysentery.
One is that he was "living in adultery" with a woman "while his marriage to his lawful wife subsisted".
Gauchos subsisted largely on meat.
Many of the dispossessed took to the woods and subsisted by slash-and-burn tillage, while others emigrated to Manchuria and Japan in search of jobs; the majority of Korean residents now in those areas are their descendants.
Archaeological evidence indicates that Paleo-Indians traveling in the interior of Northern America hunted Pleistocene fauna such as woolly mammoths (Mammuthus species), giant ground sloths (Megatherium species), and a very large species of bison (Bison antiquus); those traveling down the coast subsisted on fish, shellfish, and other maritime products.
Before Russian colonization began in the late 16th century, Siberia was inhabited by a large number of small ethnic groups whose members subsisted either as hunter-gatherers or as pastoral nomads relying on domestic reindeer.
