Maleria
Scurvy
Food poisoning.
sailors grw vegetables and herbs in special containers and brought livestock for food on long voyages,this way his crew always had fresh food
Because back in the days of long sea voyages the food the could carry aboard didn't have enough vitamins in it (particularly vitamin C) so the sailors tended to get scurvy.
Because they needed someplace to stop off on their way to and from Asia. Cape Town acted as a refreshment station where they grew fresh fruit and vegetables and kept freshwater, because if the sailors didn't get enough of the right kinds of food and fresh food, then they would have died.
scurvy, black death or food poisoning
1.Not enough room for the sailors 2.Not enough food 3.The live stocks.........
Scurvy, which is a disease which is associated with the lack of vitamin C in the diet. it was a common problem faced by sailors in the early years of sea travel. This is one of the reasons why a halfway station was established at Cape Town, to provide fresh food and water to vessels travelling between Europe and the Far East/ Asia
Lack of fresh food, ie vegetables and fruit, which contained Vitamin C and would have prevented scurvy.
To kill mice and rats which ate the sailors' food and potentially carried disease.
Scurvy, which is a disease which is associated with the lack of vitamin C in the diet. it was a common problem faced by sailors in the early years of sea travel. This is one of the reasons why a halfway station was established at Cape Town, to provide fresh food and water to vessels travelling between Europe and the Far East/ Asia
Disease that affects food, Drought, Food Warning, War, Raided, Poor Economy.