Chapter 999: The Voyage Diary of the Knowledgeable, the Starting Point of Midsummer in July, the Purple Bay Tribes of the Ejaks
"God bless you! In early July, after recruiting seven or eight Eyak sailors, we left the Purple Bay tribes of the Eyak people, and also left the dreamy purple bay. And the Shenjinxi Port in the east, that
The Shenqi Port, built on the edge of a flowing golden stream and huge rolling golden mountains, is getting further and further away from us..."
"Praise the Lord God! Your Majesty's prophecies have been verified one after another, and we have also received distant rumors of the island chain heading west. The morale of the entire fleet remains incredibly high, as if they are embarking on the sacred journey of the legendary ancestors.
The road is the same!…”
"The days in summer are very long and the nights are very short, almost only one-third of the day. On a short, moonless night, I measured the latitude of the fleet, above and below 60 degrees north latitude, 60 degrees north latitude...here
On the northern coast, you can see towering coastal cliffs and spreading snow-capped mountains everywhere. Those distant white icebergs on the skyline are endless, like the illusory background of the entire sky, revealing some mysterious omen! ...But we know clearly
I know that those hazy white mountains really exist in the distance, and they are very, very, very high..."
The cold wind came from the north, sometimes blowing due south, sometimes blowing to the southwest. The knowledgeable Mickey rubbed his hands vigorously, looked at the icebergs in the northeast, and imagined the place behind the icebergs where these cold winds were blowing.
From the mouths of the Eyak and Sugpiaq tribes he had met before, he learned about the endless snowfield further north. It was the extremity where the ice god slept.
There is ice and snow that will not melt, and there are truly majestic icebergs that stretch for thousands of miles.
"North of 60 degrees north latitude is the real place of divine disaster! The fleet once stayed close to the edge and traveled the long two to three thousand miles... However, although I saw the continuous sacred mountains, I even saw the highest towering into the clouds.
"God's Ancestral Peak", but I have never really seen the terrible appearance of the long winter, when divine disasters, ice and snow rage, withering all things. On the contrary, what I have seen is that the midsummer on the extreme northern coast is so magnificent and beautiful.
Bright and vibrant, just like the garden of the goddess of spring!…”
Thinking of this, the knowledgeable Mickey showed a sincere smile on his face. He couldn't wait to look at the record in his hand, as if he was seeing that lingeringly beautiful summer again.
"On the far north coast in July, the sky is clear blue and the river is clear blue. Along the coast are dense green grasslands, and deep in the deep black forests. Farther away, there are endless gray-brown mountains, and there are also
There are towering mountains of ice and snow shining in the clouds!…”
"Everything on the coast seems to have been given extreme vitality by the Lord God, and seems to have been blessed by the goddess of spring! There are bright and blooming flowers everywhere, fish migrating to lay eggs, and birds building nests and laying eggs.
And the beasts that mate and reproduce..."
“Purple anthuriums, golden milkweeds, and white impatiens all bloomed brilliantly on hillsides, by lakes and around rivers, one after another, as if they had been nurtured by the goddess’s milk!… in groups.
Salmon, salmon, and spotted fish, flashing bright red, silvery white or spotted, swam to the upper reaches of the river, looking for lakes to spawn... There were also robust and majestic bald eagles and pure and holy white spoonbills.
, the three-color thrushes that sang beautifully, all built nests in pairs and were busy day and night... The fleet also saw particularly large reindeer and particularly small white-tailed deer. These lucky white deer in the legend of the plateau were all in groups at the moment
They emerged from the forest in groups and even reproduced in front of us!…”
"Witness the Lord God! The summer here is so full of vitality! It seems that all life is eager to complete the reproduction of life and the continuation of the ethnic group in this warm and pleasant short season!"
After reading this, the knowledgeable Mickey took a deep breath. He seemed to smell the fragrant fragrance of flowers again and heard the singing of birds. And he thought of the fresh fruits and easily caught sea fish in summer.
I couldn't help but lick my lips and swallowed.
"God bless you! There is no doubt that summer is the most suitable season for sailing on the far north coast. Because, although sea fog will rise on the seaside during this season, there are far less storms than in autumn and winter. And the food on the shore is very, very good.
Very sufficient!…”
"Praise Your Majesty! We have collected many berries, including sweet blueberries, red mulberries, sweet and sour cherry berries, cranberries, very sour raspberries, blackberries... This is a long-standing tradition of the exploration fleet, because His Majesty gave you
There has been a clear divine revelation that the sour fruit can help the fleet resist the erosion of the blood by the evil god of the sea..."
"We hunted many stags and roasted them with salt and spices. The Eyak hunter, Eyak, was a true guide and a good hunter. He could spot deer from a distance. He
Tell us that during the breeding season of summer and autumn, food is plentiful. According to the habits of the northern tribes, hunters will only capture male deer and let the female deer go, trying to maintain the continuation of the herd..."
"Praise the Lord God! There are many fish schools in summer, too many! We caught a lot of red salmon and silver salmon. Almost every net can be filled with a basket! Sometimes, we also catch annoying people.
Big lobsters and crabs. These hard-shelled sea monsters will damage our fishing nets and have no meat. The Eyak sailors hate them and must kill them with stones and throw them to the sea.
Feed the birds...but I think their meat is really delicious even though it's not enough to fill your stomach!..."
Seeing this, Mikey, the knowledgeable man, swallowed his saliva again. He remembered the barbecue scene at the beach in summer. The sailors from all departments were grilling salmon. Only he and Zuvalo were grilling more than a dozen salmon each.
Only lobsters and crabs. This kind of extravagant use of fuel means that only the two leaders of the fleet have the power. The warriors of the kingdom are not used to eating bland fish, so they usually choose to grill it to make them fuller, and more
Venison that is easy to produce strength. They also use precious salt to marinate large amounts of simply smoked venison legs and shoulders for long-term storage.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Witness the Lord God! The climate is warm in summer and food is abundant, but the biggest problem is food storage! On this cold northern coast, all the tribes along the way
They are fishing and hunting, with only a small amount of sour fruits, roots, pine nuts, dry moss, and no grains that can be stored. For these tribes, frozen meat buried in the snow in late autumn is the staple food in winter. And bacon can be stored for a long time.
and bacon, which is their most important life-saving food before the spring comes in April during the winter that lasts for half a year! But they have very little fuel and salt, and the life-saving food they can store is also limited..."
"My guide Eya Lu told me that every winter during the most difficult time, there will always be old people in the tribe leaving their huts and walking alone into the snow and ice that freezes everything. And every spring, if hunters encounter the bodies of old people that have not yet rotted, they will
No matter which tribe they come from, they will be buried according to common traditions... And Eyalu's grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother all left the tribe in this way. In the entire tribe, most people can live beyond the age of forty or even thirty-five.
People only have witch doctors who pass on knowledge and can heal injuries and illnesses...Hey! May the Lord God guide their souls, these fellow Jiao people who are struggling in the north!..."
Mickey the Knowledgeable closed his eyes and prayed silently for a while. Then, he opened his eyes and looked at the white bear Gaowa, who looked astonishingly mature, but was actually not yet eighteen years old. In fact, among these
In tribes in the North, women usually give birth to their first child when they are around fifteen years old. In the harsh natural environment, they must mature as early as possible and continue their offspring as early as possible, just like the reindeer and brown bears in the North.
…”
"Witness the Lord God! The further north you go, the precious stones, gold, silver, cotton and feather clothing, and even spices and cocoa carried by the fleet become more and more worthless in the eyes of the tribes along the coast. And the large jars of salt carried by the fleet
, the barrels of ballasted flint are the real hard currency and real wealth of the North!..."
"In our trade with the northern tribes, we were surprised to find that the most valuable trade goods were actually salt! Seeing the large jars of white salt and green salt brought by the fleet, the tribes everywhere were very jealous, and even
He vaguely expressed the idea of taking action. However, the tribes here are very small and far away from each other. The hundreds of fully armed warriors and sailors in the fleet have exceeded the size of any tribe!..."
"So, their only choice is to trade salt with us. And as long as they have salt, they can preserve more meat and survive the winter... They are also willing to trade flint, which in their eyes
Fuel with divine power to prepare for the great cold wave that may come but may destroy the entire tribe!…”
"It's just that the exploration fleet doesn't need their furs, although the fur of the northern snow fox is as pure and beautiful as I have ever seen! ... We also don't need their bone tools, stone tools, or the smear on their utensils.
Those bright pigments come from unknown sources... For the entire exploration fleet, the only thing we want is people, strong people who can paddle in the snow and storm in the north!..."
Seeing this, Mickey the Knowledgeable lowered his eyes, feeling both pity for the situation of his brother tribes and determination to fulfill his mission of exploration!
In order to complete the arduous exploration of crossing the sea to the west, and to reach the land prophesied in His Majesty's divine revelation, every time the fleet encounters a hunting coastal tribe, it will make a request to the other party for additional sailors. If the other party refuses, the fleet will not
They will forcefully force them. But generally speaking, after hearing the conditions proposed by the fleet, most of these tribes will send one or two, or even more, to join the "sat in the big boat and hunt on the sea" in the "lake"
tribe".
"In this beautiful, majestic, cold and harsh extreme northern coast, the continuation of the tribe is above all else! One pound of salt can marinate at least twenty pounds of meat, allowing the meat to be preserved for more than nine months. And twenty pounds
Four hundred kilograms of meat preserved with one kilogram of salt can enable the young men of at least three or four tribes to survive the extremely cold long winter... Therefore, the conditions for us to recruit sailors from these tribes are twenty kilograms of salt per person, and then
Add some flint fuel!…”
"And our most reliable fleet guide, the most outstanding hunter, the Eyak deer, is the Eyak deer we used twenty pounds of salt and fifty pounds of flint from the Purple Bay of Yakutat.
I got it from the Ministry!…”
Note: I checked geography and tribal information for a day yesterday. The Easter egg chapter is an exploration map of the Gulf of Alaska, which will unfold along with the exploration trajectory.
