The outsized whales and fishes look friendly enough...good eating.
But the huge monsters on many maps...now those were scary and all at the end of the earth. Those early cartographers had some great imaginations. That must have made recruiting crews a bit of a challenge.
45 posted on 01/31/2025 3:24:41 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
(They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)