"Lord! After that week-long storm, where did we get blown to? At 8 to 9 degrees north latitude, so far south, we actually encountered a piece of land, or a continuous tropical jungle... And this
The coastline of a jungle stretches from southeast to northwest, and has been sailed for at least one or two thousand miles!..."
"Damn it! Is this an island or a continent? Now there is such a wide freshwater estuary, washing out the sea into a light color... No matter how you look at it, the upper reaches of this river should be extremely wide, completely a large area
What the land looks like!…”
"Holy Mother! How could there be a tropical continent at this latitude, a continent that has never been seen in navigation records, never expected by the kingdom's navigators, and not even discovered by the Castilians before?...Could it be,
Is this really India?!…”
"Impossible! We only sailed 10,000 miles west from the Azores Islands, and did we reach India?... India is to the west of the Southern Continent, even farther than from the Southern Continent to the east.
Close?...How is this possible?! It makes no sense at all!...It can't be, this is a new continent that no one knows about, right?..."
The gray-white shoals reflect the blue water, and the endless green rainforests are connected on the winding coast. Here, green seems to be the only background, and the endless forest sea extends from the swamps near the sea.
A river mouth that diverges inland. Even if the observer climbs a tall mast and looks hard to the south, he still can't see any color other than green, and he still can't see any gaps in the southern rainforest!
"Bang! Bang!..."
The sound of matchlock shooting came from the depths of the southern rainforest. It was not far away, but it sounded like it was miles away. This vast rainforest was so dense! The leaves were all closed together, almost covering the sky.
The sun was blocked, leaving only mottled light. Large vines and fallen roots were also entangled together, blocking the way forward. Too many trees, grass and vines blocked the view, and even the sound was lost.
Absorbed by dense leaves!
The deep tropical rainforest, the vastness and depth from ancient times, is firmly dominating everything on the land! Myrtle, laurel, palm trees, acacia, rosewood, Brazil nut, rubber tree, and Amazon cedar. Regardless of these trees, explore
Whether the crew members of the fleet know each other, they are all still standing tall, from the coast to the swamp, from the swamp to the river, and then to another wetland swamp. And in this green that submerges everything, there are vibrant animals, each flowing.
Yicai, with eye-catching colors that are unforgettable at first glance!
"Damn it! This endless tropical forest is really evil to look at! ... Just like what we saw nine years ago when we followed Diogo in the tropics of the southern continent! ... It was a land shrouded by the devil.
The land is filled with the devil’s curse! At least half of our crew died in the curse that went deep into the devil’s land, until we met the terrible witch who was the messenger of Satan!…”
"Hiss! I really don't want to recall that kind of shuddering evil, but those scenes are always unforgettable...Thanks to God's protection and blessing! We went through thousands of difficulties and finally escaped.
sky!…"
Thinking of his first exploration experience into the Congolese rainforest nine years ago, Bruno couldn't help but shudder! At this moment, he thought of his brother-in-law, boatswain Paul, who suffered from repeated cold and heat attacks, and how he finally fell into deep sleep.
Voodoo Temple. If you have experienced an experience like this once in your life, that is enough! Even if you beat him to death, you would never want to experience it a second time!
The same goes for several old brothers on the same boat. Seeing such a dense tropical rainforest, their hands and feet trembled and their whole bodies trembled. They really suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and found it difficult to have the courage to go deep into the rainforest. Even when they were forced to board the boat
, the aristocratic scholar Martin who always had a dead face, when he saw Lin Hai like this, he immediately remembered the devil's journey to the Congo a few years ago... He also looked frightened and was determined not to go ashore!
Finally, there was another captain of the exploration fleet who had never been to the southern continent. The young Knight Silvera volunteered to take the sailors to the woods on the shore to search for traces of the native villages and search for traces of the native villages for the fleet.
The water supply is about to run out...
"Boss, the crew led by Silvera came back from the woods to the south! They still didn't find any traces of human habitation, let alone any native villages... However, they shot and killed a strange animal by the woods.
The long-nosed beast is estimated to have two to three hundred kilograms of meat, which should be enough to feed fifty people on two ships for a week?..."
"They're back? No one is infected with the curse?... It's impossible to eat it for that long! It's such a hot place and so humid! If the fresh meat is not smoked, it can't be stored for a week. It will go bad in four or five days at most... It's all stored
Eat up! After being hungry for so many days at sea, everyone needs to eat well today!…”
"Boss, it's so humid here that it's hard to find some dry firewood and dead leaves! It's hard to start a fire... Otherwise, how about breaking down a barrel of gunpowder?..."
"Go away! There are barrels of gunpowder, which are carefully sealed. If you open them, they will get wet. If they get wet, they will lose their power to fire!... Well... aren't there some small bags of matchlock powder? Use kraft paper.
It’s packed, open a bag and use it to light a fire!… Hey! What kind of strange long-nosed beast is this? Even in the weird southern continent, I have never seen it before!…”
Bruno got off the sailboat and paddled a small boat to the beach. He first looked at Captain Silvera who was deep in the jungle with a suspicious look on his face, and then carefully looked at the surrounding sailors coming back from the woods until he was sure that everyone was there.
His face looked normal, and no one was suffering from the "devil's curse" of sudden cold and heat, so he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, he pressed the captain's sword on his waist and took a good look at the prey recovered by the sailors: a South American tapir as big as a deer, with an extra long nose and a tuft of upright brown hair on the back of its neck!
"Haha! Captain Bruno, you are still too careful! The devil's curse, the devil's altar, the devil's apostle you are talking about... maybe you are too careful, or maybe it only exists in the southern continent, but I don't have any of them here.
See you!…”
Silvera held her head high, held a matchlock gun in one hand, stepped on the South American tapir with one foot, and said with a somewhat ostentatious laugh.
"Haha! Although there are no people in sight in this vast forest, it is really rich! I saw many fruit trees, and the sailors collected some. There were many fish and some snakes in the puddles. The sailors
We also caught a few...Of course, Holy Mother Bless! The most beautiful harvest this time is this fat deer with a long nose and this purple bird with gorgeous feathers!..."
As she spoke, Silvera opened the leather bag on her back and took out a shot bird from it. The bird was about half a meter long, with bright feathers like red wine, and slight blue arcs on the edges of its wings.
, very rare and gorgeous!
There is indeed no such bird in the entire European continent and the entire African continent. Because it is the white-winged purple umbrella bird unique to South America!
"Oh! What a gorgeous purple bird! If it were presented to the Sintra Palace, King João would definitely be very happy!…"
Since the Roman era, the pursuit of "luxurious purple" by European nobles has not changed. For such purple-red feathers, the Sintra Palace will definitely pay a high price for it. And if it is sold to a well-connected Jewish businessman, the price
It has to be calculated in Venetian gold coins...
Bruno turned around and looked at the nearby jungle. His eyes were full of vigilance, but also greed, desire and yearning. At this moment, he somewhat forgot about the diseases and curses in the southern continent, but instead thought of the King of Congo.
The ivory rewarded and the gold jewelry robbed from the southern continent were the first pot of gold he used to make his fortune, marry a wife and buy a house...
"Oh! Oh!..."
"Chirp! Chirp!..."
Colorful tropical birds were perched in the high and low trees, looking curiously at the white-skinned two-legged beasts and big fish sailboats they had never seen before. They chirped happily and looked around while looking for delicious food.
food, especially delicious tree frogs and soft worms.
Countless brightly colored frogs and colorful exotic insects and snakes live in every tall tree. Some of them make drum-like sounds, while others crawl closer quietly. This moist and warm tropical forest
This is their most comfortable constant-temperature home. They don’t have to endure the heat of direct sunlight, and they don’t have to deal with the murderous dangers of harsh winters. For amphibians and reptiles with variable temperatures, this place is truly a paradise!
Further down, under the continuous sea of trees, it is also full of moisture, secrets and vitality. Under the trees are either thick rotten leaves, swamps of floating grass, or accumulated puddles. And among these moist and
There are also countless colorful fish, frogs, insects and snakes hidden in the surprising water body.
Some fish look beautiful and colorful, but they have man-eating teeth that can crush bones. Some blue frogs are as clear as crystal, but they only need a little venom to knock down South American tapirs. Some insects are as slender as toothpicks.
They are the most pervasive parasites. Some snakes are silent but extremely large. They can circle around a large tree several times and easily strangle people and animals...
This is the complicated Amazon jungle, the lungs of the earth with surging rivers and endless jungles! In this era, this humid and dense jungle has not yet been invaded by mosquito and fly diseases from tropical Africa, and it still retains its last riches.
And livable!
At this moment, in this vast rainforest, there are hundreds of thousands or millions of Amazonian tribes living in loose small tribes throughout the eight thousand miles of rainforest. The explorer's matchlock gun sounded.
It was like an eye-catching signal in the jungle. Attracted by this strange sound, a group of Arawak hunters, covered in thick mud and carrying hunting bows and blowguns, suddenly stopped.
"North, river mouth, thunder?..."
"Birds chirp, birds fly, never fall..."
"It's human! What, tribe?..."
“I don’t know, go and have a look!…”
The leader, Captain Arawak, thought for a moment and then changed the direction of the team. A dozen hunters walked lightly, stepping on the thick rotten leaves, and turned to touch the river in the north!