There be of them too that familiarly drink [1450]salt seawater all their lives, eat raw meat, grass, and that with delight.

Salt is obtained by evaporating the seawater in small iron hand-pans (carahais), without previous evaporation in the sun.

Now the Bromide of Magnesium, and Sulphate and Carbonate of Lime, occur in such small quantities, that they can be safely omitted in making artificial seawater; and besides, river and spring water always contain a considerable proportion of lime.