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- A hot meal if they were lucky
- All fresh food was eaten at the beginning of the voyage because the sailors didn;t want it to be spoiled
- after, it was hard ship's biscuits, salted meat, and of course fish
- rats and maggots got into the food
- water was stored in barrels and didn't taste too good after a week or two at sea
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