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(The fishermen had plain wooden boats, not canoes. I don’t know what kind of fish it was, but they had piles of it on a good day. Blackish fish, some of it only a few inches long, some much longer, averaging maybe a foot in length. Yes, they had fish all year long, it wasn’t seasonal. The water was warm in the winter. That’s why it was so foggy. They didn’t farm too much because the ground was poor and rocky and very hilly, so they depended on the fish.
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(They didn’t have water to drink. There was salt in the ocean, that’s why they washed in the ocean. But they didn’t think it was healthy to drink water. It was hilly and rocky behind the village but there was a stream up there, and they went up there with horses and buckets. But they didn’t drink the water. They drank ale. They made soups out of the water but never thought of drinking it. They were lucky, too. They had a stream that came down from a high place. They’d have had to dig down too far for water otherwise.
(But they boiled the water when they made soups and kept it cleaner that way. This killed a lot of germs. The fish were always available. So they were a lot healthier than other communities that actually had more water. These other places were sicker because the water was polluted. They used natural liquids from the animals when they made stews.
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