Quotation from: The People of the Abyss

Written by: Jack London

They each drank two pints of it, and I assure you that it was slops. It
resembled tea less than lager beer resembles champagne. Nay, it was
"water-bewitched," and did not resemble tea at all.

It was curious, after the first shock, to notice the effect the food had
on them. At first they were melancholy, and talked of the divers times
they had contemplated suicide. The Carter, not a week before, had stood
on the bridge and looked at the water, and pondered the question. Water,
the Carpenter insisted with heat, was a bad route. He, for one, he knew,
would struggle. A bullet was "'andier," but how under the sun was he to
get hold of a revolver? That was the rub.