The Thousand Island Cold Current flows southward along the Thousand Island chain. The series of islands, like ice beads on the sea, are strung into a chain of beads by the ocean current and worn on the necks of the Ainu tribe. The high peaks are like ice beads on the sea.
The green smoke of the volcano is the best navigation on the sea, allowing the small boats of the local tribes to sail back and forth smoothly. Long green grass covers the mountains of the island. There are no trees in sight, only the green color at the foot of the mountain and the mountains on the mountain.
of snow white.
Gray seagulls fly in the gray sky, chirping briskly from time to time, swooping into the sea, catching sea fish going south, and then flying away against the sails of the longships. The snow fox is standing on the cliff of the snow-capped mountains.
, staring with dark eyes, watching the three long boats rowing in, rowing away along the current, and disappearing into the south of the sky.
"The great god of the sea and thunder! There are so many islands in the Thousand Islands of the island!... These islands are covered with green grass and look like good pastureland. But they are too scattered and too small to be suitable.
When reindeer migrate, there will be no large prey herds, and they cannot support tribes with more than a hundred people... It is also difficult to find a valley to escape the wind and snow on an island that is too small to survive the winter. And the most important thing is that on these islands
It must be very windy, so there are no trees, no fuel and no houses!…It must be terribly cold in the winter here!…”
As a deer herding tribe on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the evaluation of the deer hunters is very fair. The Koryak Deer Tribe and the Kotelmen Mountain Tribe occupy the Kamchatka Peninsula and fight to the death for the pastures of the peninsula, but no tribe goes south to the Thousand Islands.
Let the scattered Ainu island tribe occupy this place.
The reason is not that the fierce hunting and hunting Kamchatka tribe cannot defeat the Ainu, but that such a broken cold island chain relies too much on boats, fishing and hunting, and cannot support the nomadic life of the Kamchatka tribe. When the winter snowstorm
When it comes, these large and small islands will be completely submerged in ice and snow, and there will be no winter camps to shelter from the wind. It will even be colder than the Kamchatka Peninsula in the north!
"Thousand Islands are the disappearing wind, silent with the divine power in the sea... It is our last refuge after the big island of Mausili, and it is also the entrance to the underworld... The failed tribes wandered here, gradually dying out in the wind and snow, and finally forgetting everything
…Also forgotten by people…”
The Thousand Island Seashells sang in a low voice, and their eyes gradually filled with tears. In the eyes of the Ainu people, the demise of a tribe is not when the last tribesman dies... but when the tribe loses its inherited poetry and loses
After becoming a "storyteller", forgetting everything about their ancestors, and being forgotten by other tribes.
As a loser on the island of Maoshili, her tribe was exiled to the north and struggled to survive on the Thousand Islands, with its population dwindling...and then, it was captured by Zuvalo's fleet that went south last year.
"This is the guidance of the Lord God! The shell is the power of thunder and the sea. It guides you to meet me. It also guides your tribe to return to the origin of their ancestors! It's not just you. On these large and small islands, these
The scattered Ainu tribes are also our Jiao people compatriots who have been separated for thousands of years!..."
Zuwaro comforted softly and held the thin and soft Ainu girl in his arms. The fleet traveled to this series of Thousand Islands for nearly a month and was probably at least two thousand miles long! And each time it stopped at a larger island
On the island, the fleet sent out scouts to investigate, and the Ainu tribe on the island would panic and run away, hiding somewhere...
In Zuwaro's view, the size of these Ainu tribes is too small. There are often only a few dozen or even a dozen people in a tribe. No matter how many people there are, they will not be able to feed themselves and they will not be able to survive the winter. Their
The camps are also very simple, with no decent wooden houses, and most of them are dug out caves. In those abandoned camps, there are no metal tools, only stone tools, and there are no poultry.
And when the "ferocious Yamabu" appeared in "extremely large numbers" and "in big boats", the first reaction of the tribes on the island was to flee! Taking their meager food reserves, they fled into the long grass and mountains, directly
Abandon camp don’t…
"Lord God! The two thousand-mile island chain is so barren and terrible! We can't find tribal supplies at all, so we have to rely on the food carried by the fleet and fishing along the way... The distance of two thousand miles is a natural barrier.
, no wonder the mountains of the peninsula cannot go south to reach the 'good place for people to live' in the mouth of the shell, Ainumoshili..."
Zuvalo murmured to himself, until the outline of the vast land gradually emerged on the southern sea. As the fleet gradually approached, the distant mountains, continuous forests, flowing rivers, and gray beaches were gradually reflected.
It came into everyone's eyes. The lively animals and birds also curiously poked their heads and looked at the "giant beast" on the sea.
At this moment, all the deer in the fleet were dumbfounded. They had never imagined that behind the series of desolate and extremely cold islands, there would be such a lush pasture! And the Ainu tribesmen on the boat were delighted.
There were cheers and many people shed tears.
Qiandao Shell looked at the coast infatuatedly, at the hometown she had been forced to leave, at the scenes that appeared again and again in her dreams, and imagined the prosperous old days of the tribe... Then, she sat on the bow of the boat and gently
They sang Ainu songs. The singing was very soft, but it made all the Ainu listen quietly, and even closed their eyes.
"The vast Ainumoshiri! It was once a free world for our ancestors... They were like innocent children, living a happy and leisurely life in the arms of the guardian gods..."
"What a happy day! In winter, our ancestors kicked away the snow in the forest, climbed over the mountains, and hunted bears under the watchful eyes of snow foxes... In summer, they drove on the sea to the singing of white seagulls.
Small boats floating like leaves, hunting sea fish..."
“In spring, there was warm sunshine and flowers of all colors bloomed. Our ancestors sang with the birds and picked celandine and sagebrush... In autumn, there were red leaves in full bloom, strong winds and a bright full moon. They chopped
Open the long miscanthus and hunt the trout that come up the river..."
"Until the fishing fire goes out and the full moon brings Father Moon's instructions, everyone falls asleep under the moonlight. And the psychic sacred deer calls his companions in the valley, walking from one person's dream to the dreams of many... Until
Everyone wakes up from their dreams, and the mother of the sun looks at us warmly and shines on the earth..."
The songs of the Thousand Island shells danced like birds. The Ainu were so quiet, shedding tears quietly. The Koryak people could not understand this emotion. They carried composite horn bows on their backs and wore
Wearing strong deerskin armor, they jumped from the boat onto the shore. Then, there were the warriors of the kingdom, wearing the amulets of the main god, holding bronze spears, and carrying flint spears...
"Ainumoshiri Island, the last place of guardianship of the Ainu, the boundary between contact with Kazuto... Now, the emblem of the main god has finally arrived here!... His Majesty's divine prophecy, and the contact of powerful tribes are also close.
Right in front of you…”
Zuvalo watched all this calmly, and stood quietly beside Qiandao Shell. After a long time, he took a long breath, rubbed Qiandao Shell's head, and said softly.
"Shell... you are back... and I am with you... we are here too!..."
The contact with Ainu Island was not as smooth as expected. The location where the fleet arrived was at the northeastern tip of Ainu Island. It was also the coldest place on the entire island facing the Thousand Islands Cold Current. This area belongs to
There are no large tribes within the "Kitashima Ainu" area, and there are no villages that can supply supplies.
According to Thousand Island Shell, the "North Island Ainu" is like this. The tribe is very small, and the villages are also very small. They will even move every once in a while. Such a small tribe is very wary of outsiders. Because they have no
What kind of ability to resist risks, they will try their best to stay away from the sudden appearance of unfamiliar large groups of "hunters". The costumes of the fleet tribe are half like the ferocious Kazuto and half like the dangerous Yamabe. No matter how you look at it, they look like
"He is very evil and not a good person!".
The fleet stayed for two days. Its main task was to fish and replenish the food consumed on the ship. The deer scouts found traces of many tribes, but in the end they only came into contact with a man of about two hundred people. Ayi, who had no time to escape,
Nu tribe.
"Discovered the Ainu village?! God bless you! Put on armor, put on weapons... Shell, you help me translate, I want to contact them personally!..."
Even with an Ainu guide, the first contact with the North Island Ainu people was still not friendly and close. More than a hundred fully armed kingdom warriors and Shikabe archers came to Zuwaro in person.
Under the leadership, they appeared in front of a small Ainu village. More than a hundred Ainu villagers clenched their spears and gathered at the entrance of the village with vigilance and fear.
"Lord God! This is the Ainu village?...Didn't you say that the tribes in the south are all powerful and wealthy?...Hmm..."
Zuvalo's eyes widened and he looked carefully at the village in front of him. The size of this Ainu village was far smaller than the mountain camps on the Kamchatka Peninsula, but it was already larger than the tribes seen on the Thousand Island chain.
It's about to get bigger.
There is a row of compact wooden houses built in the village. These wooden houses are all trapezoidal, and the walls seem to be made of wood and mud. They look very thick. On the top is a high thatch roof, with some fish and deer bones hanging there.
, seems to have a special symbolic meaning. It is worth noting that all wooden houses have no windows, only the flue left above the roof. Obviously, this is to keep warm in winter and save fuel, just like the houses of many extreme northern tribes
…
"Wooden houses, settled villages...well...then what do they plant and raise?..."
Zuvarro looked around, but he didn't see any decent fields. Most of them were in front of and behind the house, where some vegetable fields were cultivated, growing long-stemmed vegetables of unknown names. And there were no domesticated deer in the entire village.
Or some poultry. There were only a few dogs used for hunting and tracking, tied carelessly at the door, with obviously hungry fur and bones. There was also a fence built of logs, in which a black and gray dog was locked with a strong rope, and
Not a big one...eh! Cub?...
"Raising bears? These Ainu people are raising bears?! Bears are so wild, can they be tamed?... Are you asking bears to help hunt, or are you riding bears to fight?..."
Zuvaro looked at the young black bear in confusion. The black bear also looked at him stupidly. It was obviously raised from a young age and was not aggressive. Besides bears and dogs, he did not see any reindeer that he had already seen.
Horses, and the "four-legged cattle, sheep, donkeys and pigs, the two-legged chickens, ducks and geese" that His Majesty predicted...
"Hmm... What a poor tribe! Although the Yamabu tribe is poor, they still have deer herds... And these Ainu island tribes are as poor as the northern tribes in the northern continent... but they have to be wary, and there are many enemies.
They are not honest and hospitable!…”
Soon, Zuvarro found a simple "altar" next to the black bear. It was actually just a platform made of stones, without any emblems or statues of the gods, and no tributes. But he came out
The priest's intuition and keen judgment from the bones and blood stains around the platform revealed that it was an altar!
"The altar for worshiping nature...is not limited to fixed gods, and all things have spirituality...or they can become the guardian gods..."
Zuwaro squinted his eyes, recalling the Ainu faith that the Thousand Island Shells had told him. Then, he moved his gaze from the impoverished village to the gathered villagers. Some of these villagers were wearing woven straw clothes, and some were wearing woven straw clothes.
Wearing rough furs, there is no "cloth" in sight anyway. There seems to be no "cloth" in this village. And these villagers are basically men, old and young, holding various wooden and stone spears in their hands.
, occasionally there are two iron spears, but I don’t know where they came from...
This chapter is not over, please click the next page to continue reading! "There is no cloth, and the clothes are only made of straw and fur... mainly stone and wooden tools, no copper or iron is produced... but iron tools can be obtained from the surrounding tribes... most of them are
The men, women and children should all be hiding, or taking refuge in tribes they are familiar with, further inland... The whole tribe is very primitive, but they seem to be no strangers to fighting, and are very vigilant... Well, on this island
It’s not peaceful, there must be a lot of disputes! There should be large and more powerful tribes around this village!…”
From the details of the observation, Zuwaro made another judgment. Finally, he finally looked at the leading Ainu chief. The man was wearing a long coat sewn from fish skin, a short deerskin hat on his head, and his face was full of
It's anger and anxiety.
"The power of the ocean spirit protects our fish skin village!... Foreign tribes who emerged from the northern sea, why do you want to invade the territory of our village?... You hunt our fishing grounds and shoot our deer herds. We have endured it.
Go on... But why do you still bring the tribe's warriors to our camp? What else do you want to ask for?... As you can see, we are a poor tribe, we have no extra food, and no
How many furs for you!…”
Zuwaro frowned and tried to listen to the other person's Ainu language. Unfortunately, although he was extremely gifted in language, he worked hard to learn the basic Ainu language. But the other person spoke so fast and urgently that it was really difficult to hear clearly.
Fortunately, Qiandao Beike helped him translate, and through his careful teaching, Little Beike also learned part of the Mexican language... Well, this is the mutual promotion of dual cultivation...
"The blessing of the Lord God! The divine blessing of the ocean and the storm! We are the maritime tribe from the Thousand Islands in the North. We don't have any ill intentions, we just want to trade supplies with you!..."
The sound of the Thousand Island shells was as clear as a lark. And with this familiar accent, the expression of the Chief of the Fish Skin Department finally softened. He still held the iron spear in his hand tightly and looked at the hundreds of armed men with vigilance.
The warrior asked suspiciously, looking at the looks and figures that were very different from those of the tribe.
"The power of oceans and storms? From the north?...You are a tribe on the Thousand Islands?..."
"That's right! We are a tribe from Thousand Islands, we are your friends and your lost brothers!..."
Hearing Zuvalo's nonsense, Chief Yuskin sneered. It's just that the other party's force is too scary. If he can make the other party leave, let alone call him brother, even call him father.
"Ah! The lost brother tribes in the distance... we have no supplies to exchange with you... well... we can treat you to a meal and give you all the furs!..."
"As for supplies... you'd better go west! At the end of the big island in the west, there is a really big tribe. It's big and rich. It must have everything you want!..."
