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Drinking water or sea water? Both shall be discussed:
The ocean was extremely dangerous. The maps were totally off; the sizes of the oceans were grossly underestimated, and often bodies of land were included that did not exist. For goodness' sake, in the areas beyond the cartographers' knowledge, they marked 'beware, dragons lie in these parts', or something akin to that.
If vessels were even headed in the right direction, often due to the underestimation of the vastness of the oceans, voyages would be extremely long--much longer than was planned. Sailors would often die of starvation.
If they reached their destination, or at least A destination, they always ran the risk of unfriendly natives. Of course, usually the sailors took their vorpal swords in hand, and through and through they massacred the natives; then with the natives' food they went galumphing back. However, occasionally the previous ordeals and scurvy had weakened the sailors until they couldn't fight.
Water for drinking was highly contaminated. People would throw everything from spoilt meat to the contents of chamber pots to human bodies in rivers. These rivers were often the same rivers that they received their drinking water from.
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∙ 12y agoIn medieval times, the water had much harmful bacteria.
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