Chapter 472 Aurora Hunter
The British Museum mainly records the historical development of human civilization through cultural relics, or stolen goods. After so many years, Pomona seems to still be able to smell the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood in the air.
No matter whether it is oriental porcelain or Egyptian mummies, the statues of Greek gods cut into "meat" in the Parthenon can better show the essence of these cultural treasures - trophies. What primitive tribes fight for is animals.
Corpses can be eaten as food. Those stones cannot be eaten, but they can be used as bragging rights to satisfy the vanity of the imperialists. They just want to express the meaning of "I win and you lose."
In the first year, Slytherin was originally far ahead with 472 points. Later, Albus Dumbledore madly added points to Gryffindor, which suddenly turned the tables. At first, Slytherin cheered, but later it turned into Gryffindor cheers.
Slytherin's expression at that time was indescribable.
The relationship between Slytherin and Gryffindor deteriorated sharply in the second school year. Before Harry Potter came, Slytherin had won the House Cup and Quidditch Cup every year. When Harry Potter came, everything turned upside down. The winner
He became the loser, making people angry and unconvinced. He just wanted to use violence to fight and teach the lucky guy a lesson.
Fighting in groups is too unnoble. The duel club makes the little snakes eager to try it. What a great opportunity. They can finally beat that scar head in front of the teacher. After beating him, he doesn't have to be put in solitary confinement. Where can I find such a good thing?
Violence cannot solve all problems, but sometimes it is needed. Scotland and England are different in that they have a martial spirit. The English are not only hated by all Europeans and Chinese, but also by the Irish and Scots. Their enemies even exist in the Arctic Circle. Therefore,
The Inuit people were harmed by them.
Inuit people belong to the Arctic type of Mongol race. Their physical characteristics are similar to those of North Asians. Their skin is mostly light yellowish brown, often with "Mongolian spots"; their hair is thick and black, slightly wavy, and their eyes are brown. According to legend, their ancestors were around four years old.
Five thousand years ago, it moved from central and northern Asia to both sides of the Bering Strait, and then gradually spread eastward.
The period when Western white people entered the Inuit living areas on a large scale was at a stage when European capitalist industry was booming and developing rapidly. In order to obtain a large amount of industrial raw materials, these countries sent many people to explore and search for treasures around the world.
They expanded their colonies and plundered local resources. From 1600 to 1800, the white people who came to the Inuit settlements were generally friendly. One of the reasons was that if they wanted to survive in this extremely cold land, they had to
Learn the Inuit way of life and obtain food and other tools from the Inuit people.
Inuit people live in the Arctic Circle. In some places, there are even extreme days and nights. The sun never sets in summer and never rises in winter. The aurora is considered one of the most beautiful wonders in nature, but it is strange to see too much.
Once the feeling was over, the explorers returned to their original purpose.
The white people who came here in the early days wanted to search for precious minerals such as gold and silver on this land, but found nothing. For people who wanted to make a fortune, they were not willing to return empty-handed. Later, they finally discovered the Arctic region
The most practical treasure is the rich wildlife resources.
In order to make huge profits, the white people hunted and killed almost all the whales in the North Atlantic waters. Then they sailed through the waves and sailed to the Arctic Ocean. The whalers used the most advanced ships at the time and were equipped with modern whaling equipment. Thanks to the advent of whaling
Guns and cannons, thousands of whales are killed every year.
The whaling teams that come here often hire Inuit to hunt caribou and other wild animals for them. Because the Inuit do not understand the situation of white society, and they have no sense of money, let alone how much the whalers will earn.
Profit, so the whalers can hire Inuit to be their guides and hunters at a very small cost. Sometimes the whaling team does not pay the hired Inuit anything for several weeks, and sometimes
They were only provided with some whale meat, which they thought was no longer fresh enough and were ready to be thrown away.
The Inuit, who knew nothing about the outside world, were very satisfied with this. The Inuit were very happy with what they could get from the white people and quickly accepted it all. Making fire with matches is certainly better than using flint.
It is much easier to make a fire, and iron cookware can boil water for cooking much faster than stone cookware. And more Inuit people hope to get guns and bullets, and they deeply realize the power of guns and bullets in hunting-using
Traditional tools such as spears and arrows usually take a whole day to kill a male musk ox, but a rifle can solve the problem in just a moment.
By the early 20th century, whaling activities in Inuit settlements had ended. However, the fur traders who came immediately filled the vacancies of whalers, and they brought more good things, so the Inuit
People exchanged precious furs with them for these things. What fur traders loved most were the skins of polar bears, seals and arctic foxes. With modern weapons, the Inuit used rifles to shoot polar bears and seals with great ease, and the harvest was huge.
.However, the target of Arctic fox is too small, and its body is white in winter, making it difficult to capture. Therefore, the Inuit people use the method of setting bear traps to capture Arctic foxes.
There are many legends about foxes in the East, the most famous of which is the nine-tailed fox. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it is said that where the nine-tailed fox appears, it represents a good harvest and abundant products.
In the past, the Inuit people used stones or ice cubes to make clamps. Such clamps were neither easy to use nor strong, and the ice cubes would melt when the weather was hot. They were far less useful than the iron clamps provided by fur traders.
Winter is the best time to hunt Arctic fox. The fox fur at this time is thick and soft. Arctic fox fur is the most popular at the Paris Fashion Show and can be sold for a very good price. As a result, more and more Inuit are hunting.
People's hunting target turned to Arctic foxes. They hunted as many Arctic foxes as possible in winter and exchanged them for iron clips, bullets, guns and other supplies.
With the arrival of white traders, various Christian organizations in European countries and the United States also sent missionaries to the Inuit areas to preach and encourage the Inuit people to become Christians. Faced with the powerful material temptation, the wizards
Soon succumbing, the Inuit people quickly converted from primitive religion to Christianity. A large number of Inuit people became Christians and prayed devoutly every day, at least on the surface. But deep down they did not really give up.
With their own ancient beliefs, while praying with the missionaries, they also placed the various gods they were familiar with on an equal footing with God.
In the mid-1920s, the Inuit territories belonged to Denmark, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Canada. At first, the governments of various countries were indifferent to the Inuit people and did not consider providing them with food, housing, medical equipment, etc.
When the primitive way of life of the Inuit people was violently impacted by modern civilization, they died of starvation and even more died of illness.
The order of life of the Inuit people was destroyed by the outside white people. The white people and the Inuit people together killed almost all huntable animals with bullets. In exchange for bullets and other items, many Inuit people gave up the current hunting season.
, to capture the prey needed by the traders. The fur traders left the Arctic region, leaving the Inuit with an irreparable tragedy.
A group of Canadian Inuit people living on the plains west of the Hudson Bay depended almost entirely on reindeer for food. The fur traders who came here at that time asked them to capture Arctic foxes and exchange fox skins for food and other daily necessities.
Hunter Ohato said: "I clearly remember that one winter, businessmen told us that they needed a lot of fox skins. They seemed so impatient, so we gave up the plan to hunt reindeer in the autumn and devoted all our efforts to catching Arctic foxes. I believe that in the future
This can be exchanged with the white people for the food they need in winter. But when we trekked to the southern white settlement with fox furs in the middle of winter, we found that the wooden door of their igloo was open and the white people had left here. The house was left empty.
Box, no food or bullets, we couldn't hunt. I hope I can forget this past, but my first wife and two children both starved to death that winter, and I can't forget this nightmare no matter what.
"Not only did I spend the winter alone in hunger and loneliness, grieving for my dead relatives, but other people in the village were also like me. Only 1/5 of the people in the village survived until the next spring."
White people like to play genocide. Before the arrival of white people, most Inuit people died from hunting accidents, hunger, war and food poisoning. They rarely died from diseases. Later, various diseases brought by white people became the name of Inuit.
It is the main cause of human illness and death because they have no resistance to it and do not have basic medical facilities. There is an island in the Canadian Arctic. All the Salamit Inuit people living here died between 1902 and 1903.
The disease not only caused death, but also made more people disabled and lost their labor force. But they were better than the Indians, and no one would wrap a blanket contaminated with smallpox virus in the Indians under the guise of bringing warmth.
on the baby.
Such a backward civilization could not give the white colonists anything for exhibition. They only had some masks and soapstone handicrafts, which were placed in the Stone Age exhibition hall.
"I read an explorer's diary, and there was a very interesting story in it." After telling a lot of unpleasant stories, Iris began to change the topic. "In the legends of the Inuit, some creatures can
Turn into human form, a tribal wizard said to the explorer. There was a hunter who had no wife and could only handle the prey by himself. One day he saw a white fox near his residence. It was obviously
I was very hungry. The hunter was just a man. He wanted to keep a life for himself as a companion, so he adopted the little fox. Whenever the hunter ate meat, he gave it bones. Later, the little fox grew up slowly.
One day the hunter got up and found that it was missing. He searched everywhere for a long time but could not find any trace of it. Just when he gave up and went home, he found a girl standing at the door of his igloo. She was very beautiful and had
She had black and long hair, so the hunter took her home and asked her to be his wife. When they were lying and chatting, he suddenly found that the girl’s teeth were broken. He was surprised and asked
Why did she, the girl said, hate it, it’s all because of you, you used to give me bones to eat, the hunter felt very strange, then the girl suddenly stood up and left the igloo without looking back."
"Is she wearing clothes?" Pomona couldn't help but ask. Arctic ran out without clothes and didn't freeze to death.
Iris smiled and shook his head, "It's not written in the diary. When the girl ran out, the hunter also chased her. The footprints on the snow were very clear. At first, the footprints were of humans, but then they turned into those of animals. Girl
It’s gone, and there’s only an Arctic fox at the end of the footprints.”
Pomona stopped wandering.
"Animagus."
"It sounds like that. I heard that there are many legends of fox fairies and snake fairies in China. Maybe it's not animals turning into people, but people turning into animals. The girl in the Inuit legend maintained
A few years in beast form are not as long as the twelve years that Peter Pedillo maintained."
"Can you lend me that adventure diary?" Pomona held Iris' arm and continued to wander around the museum.
"Of course, it was written by a wizard." Iris said politely, "It wouldn't be so interesting if it were a Muggle diary. It's all about hunting a few whales, and you can earn a lot of money."
How much does it cost and when can I go home early?”
"You don't like Muggles?"
"If the Yellowstone volcano erupts, those refugees will probably migrate to Asia along Alaska, like the Inuit. The Russians will definitely not let them pass easily. Their most promising landing places are Japan and North Korea. During the US-Korean War
During this period, I heard that MacArthur was planning to use atomic bombs to blow up the supply lines of the Chinese army supporting North Korea, but it was later stopped by the U.S. Congress. Do you know why?"
"Because they expected such a day to come," Pomona said with a sneer.
"The Inuit are known for their hospitality and friendliness. Their houses are generally open to inviting others to live in, and they can stay there as long as they want. If guests come, even if they are strangers passing by, everyone will rush to entertain the guests. When
When a certain hunter returns with a full load, he will go through the whole village and invite everyone loudly, so people come in groups, eat, drink, sing, dance and tell stories very happily. The Indians are the same, and they treated the early white colonists
Warm hospitality, yellow people all have this kind of hospitable and philanthropic character. If they take a ship back to the Western world, they will not be warmly entertained and may even be turned away, even if these immigrants from the New World were once residents of their own country.
"Iris let out a long sigh. "Those of the same kind know best. If the atomic bomb is dropped, we will become enemies with the East completely. There will be no relaxation and ground. MacArthur is just a general. What he cares about is the victory of local wars. He cannot see that.
In the longer term, those who oppose MacArthur's plan must leave a place for the people to stay. The volcano will 100% erupt, it is just a matter of time."
“Do you think the Chinese will accept American refugees?”
"Unless Americans put down their guns before entering China, that country prohibits guns and drugs. Marijuana is also a drug." Iris shrugged. "Many Chinese people are similar to Puritans. Americans are used to freedom. They probably can't stand that kind of life."
Yes, the Chinese are not Inuit. They learned this from the Korean War in the 1950s. The volunteers fought without risking their lives. They are simply terrible."
Chapter completed!