On january 9, 1493, explorer christopher columbus, sailing near what is now the dominican republic, records in his ship's journal that, on the previous day, he saw three “mermaids” —in reality. Did you know that there is a theory suggesting that christopher columbus and his crew inadvertently spread syphilis to the old world, specifically europe It is believed that llamas, not humans, were the carriers of this sexually transmitted disease. Columbus went on to write, “still, for queen and science i fucked the mermaids, the promise of living forever too great a prize i could not resist That being said, my willie smells like barnacle and i do fear i have a bit of the sea clap.” To see if columbus and his men introduced syphilis to europe after catching it in the americas, scientists investigated the bacteria that cause syphilis and related ailments such as bejel and.
Columbus would have been familiar with the myth of a mermaid, a sea creature with the upper body of a beautiful woman and the lower body of a fish However, he would never have seen nor heard of manatees or dugongs. Despite columbus’ descriptions of the manatees, he and his crew did not understand much about these creatures
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