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white people hygiene
The colonists’ lack of hygiene was more than just a smelly inconvenience to the Native Americans they encountered. It also posed a very real danger. Unwashed colonists passed along microbes to which Native Americans had no prior exposure, and therefore no immunity.
Historians estimate that European diseases wiped out more than 90 percent of the Native people in coastal New England before 1620, the year the Pilgrims arrived. Over the next few decades, European diseases would wipe out millions more.
If the Natives were any more than they had been the colonists and their diseases could've caused what could be known in arcaen day as a plague. In fact it was a plague of a sorts.
Damn, I wonder if they tried to take a bath in the river...would the fish die?
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