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Sky tinted water :)
The Mississippi River served as a crucial transportation route for early explorers, settlers, and immigrants in North America. Its extensive network of tributaries and its central location allowed for easier travel and trade throughout the continent.
All of them were looking for a water route to Asia.
The Northwest Passage .
they look lunch and water and food
A lot of the unmapped places were easiest to get to across water, and sometimes explorers didn't want to interact with locals by traveling by land.
To water their crops, to drink, and to travel on.
Early French explorers transliterated "Michigan" from the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, which means large water.
Lack of food lack of water scurvy and the fear of sea mosters
Waterways have historically been the least resistant means of travel to explorers. Three explorers who made their journeys almost exclusively by water are Balboa, Ponce de Leon, and Cabrillo.
water and food
There is a land mass between the two oceans.