"The Lord God witnesses! I have decided. Don't stop me!..." Sui
The vast bay is calm and calm, with occasional plump fish jumping and splashing a faint light in the water. On the coastal plain, the leaders of the fleet communicated in low voices, as if they had encountered some difficult choice. Five Miwok hunters stood on the other side, close to their canoe. While they waited patiently, they looked at the arguing people warily.
"Since the chief of the North Bay Department has sent out an invitation, there won't be much ill will. On the contrary, if we reject his invitation, it is very likely that the other party will misjudge and even cause conflicts and fighting... and we are here for the first time. , the farmland has just been planted, and the house has not been repaired, it must be a stable period of time to lay down the foundation!"
Mikey, the knowledgeable man, looked at the other leaders with firm eyes and firmly held the sun amulet around his neck.
"The Lord God bless me! I'm going to the North Bay! If we want to settle here for a long time, we must contact the surrounding tribes! What's more, the fleet does not have much food. We have to trade with the Miwok people That’s it!…”
"Mickey, I didn't say I wouldn't let you go..."
Exploration Captain Zuvalo frowned, worry evident on his face.
"It's just that if you are alone, if you encounter anything... why not let Shi Jian lead a team of armored warriors to accompany you to the North Bay. And I will bring ten long boats to meet you on the shore..." Sui
"Zuvarro, I am not alone. I also have a translator, Deer Bug."
Mickey the Knowledgeable smiled and replied confidently.
"As long as we can communicate, the power of language will be better than a hundred warriors! What's more, if I take the warriors there, it will easily cause hostility in the Beiwan tribe. And if this tribe really has so many hunters, once they come out What's the problem? A few warriors are of no use, but they are just sacrificed in vain..."
"So, let me go alone! I believe that the Lord God will protect me!"
Seeing Mickey's determination, the exploration captain sighed. He shook his head and whispered a few instructions, and then two warriors followed behind Mickey.
"Don't refuse...just two of you. When you go to Beiwan to meet that important shaman chief, you can't go empty-handed! Bring some gemstone cotton cloth, copper axes and spears as gifts...just in case something happens. The problem is, looking at these gifts that they don’t have, we still have a chance to redeem you..."
"Hmm...ok!"
This time, Mickey didn't refuse. He just raised his head, looked at the sun rising into the sky, and prayed devoutly again.
"Supreme Lord God! May you protect me, our fleet, and the Miwok people here!"
Since they had to bring gifts, the Miwok boat was obviously not enough. A kingdom's longship, accompanied by the Miwocock hunter's canoe, rowed north together.
Mickey the Lore invited LeFeng the Cloakhunter to board the longship with him, and gave him a silver sun amulet.
"Huh? Such a big ship!"
The cloak hunter Le Feng looked surprised and couldn't help but sigh.
"What kind of thick wood does it take to dig out the shape of a boat? Is it possible that in your land in the south, there are big trees that can be surrounded by more than a dozen people?" Sui
"This kind of long ship is a blessing from the Lord God!"
Mickey, the knowledgeable man, had a smile on his face, pointed to the sun amulet in Le Feng's hand, and spoke gently and kindly.
"As long as you have the blessing of the Lord God, all unimaginable power will appear in front of you! And as long as you believe in Him and respect Him...such power will also be bestowed upon you, and even your tribe!..."
"Huh? The ancestral spirit of the gods in the south? He can build ships?...Huh?! He was transformed into a sacred tree spirit and can make big trees grow into boats? Oh! What a powerful and strange ancestral spirit of the gods!"
The cloak hunter Le Feng looked amazed. There was obviously something wrong with the communication between the two. The translator Lu Chong trembled and said that it had nothing to do with him.
The two of them talked like this, talking happily for a long time, and the long boat only rowed fifty or sixty miles, and did not even reach the northern coast. This large bay is too wide. It is more than a hundred miles from Xishan Port to the north shore. And it will definitely not be achieved in one day.
As night fell, everyone moved toward the east bank and spent the night on the beach. In the land of Jinwan in June and July, the daytime temperature is around 20 degrees, and the night temperature is around 10 degrees. The overall climate is fairly mild, but it can be windy at times, requiring you to sleep wrapped in a thick blanket. furtively glance
"Huh? Is this a cloth blanket? Not fur?"
The cloaked hunter Le Feng came forward and touched Mickey's blanket, with surprise and envy on his face.
"Your southern tribe actually has so much cloth! You know, only the chiefs and priests in the tribe have clothes made of cloth!..."
For these daily conversations, the translator Lu Chong is fairly reliable. Mikey, the knowledgeable man, looked at him and asked with a smile.
"You lack cloth? Then what are your clothes made of?"
"Leather or grass. It will be cold in winter, so you need to wrap yourself thicker. The tribe tried growing cloth, but they couldn't grow it, so they had to buy it from the south..."
The cloak hunter Le Feng made gestures and talked about many tribal transactions. furtively glance
"We will go south and trade with the Yokut people. Sometimes we will use furs in exchange for the cloth in their hands. And they can't grow cloth, so they have to trade with the tribes further south..."
Mikey, the knowledgeable person, touched his chin and guessed that the cloth in the other person's mouth should mean both "cloth and cotton". However, what the other party just mentioned...
"The Yokut people in the south? What tribe are they? We have come all the way from the south and haven't encountered them before?"
"Oh! They don't live on the coast, they live in the valleys and rivers of the southern interior... Their tribes are many, like the feathers of grouse spread out... They are better at farming than we are, and they can grow a lot of pumpkins and corn. , kidney beans... they also grow echinacea, frankincense trees..."
"Echinacea, frankincense tree? What is that?"
Hearing about the new plants, Mikey the Knowledgeable felt refreshed, and his sleepiness immediately disappeared.
"Is it delicious?"
"Well... Echinacea is a kind of flower, and it is a very important herbal medicine for the tribe. Especially when you catch a cold, cough, or sneeze, you have to rely on it to treat it. Well, if you are injured and eat it, it will not hurt so much, nor will it hurt. Wounds are easy to rot...As for the leaves of the frankincense tree, they can also relieve pain...We hunters always take some dried echinacea with us when we travel far..."
The cloaked hunter Le Feng fumbled, took out a small cluster of gray-blue echinacea from his arms, and handed it to Mickey.
"Try it! The priest of the tribe said that these echinacea can drive away diseases and bring the vitality of the earth to hunters! Yes, you can eat it dry or make tea..."
Mickey the Knowledgeable took the Echinacea curiously, looked at it, smelled it, and stuffed it into his mouth. He chewed it, it tasted bitter at first, and then became a little sweet. After a while, I did feel a little calmer.
"Local herbs to treat illnesses... Echinacea, Frankincense..."
Mickey thought for a moment, then immediately took out the roll of paper and went to the campfire. He drew pictures of echinacea, recorded the effects of this herb, and asked the hunter Le Feng a few questions from time to time. Since the fleet is going to settle here for a long time, there will definitely be diseases that appear in the local area. The herbs of these tribes will be very useful to everyone, and will even be beneficial to the southern kingdom and alliance.
"Le Feng, you know so much. You are truly a knowledgeable, wise, and brave cloak hunter! Well...are there any other herbs?" Sui
"Hahaha! You speak so nicely! ... Yes! There are also corn silks, which can treat the men's vaginal obstructions... yarrow, which can treat women's vaginal obstructions..."
"This!...You continue...are there any herbs with wider uses?..."
"Oh! There are also eucalyptus leaves, which can be used to treat various wounds and body aches... Sage is used by many southern tribes. It can be used as tea to help you sleep... You are from the south, so you should understand. Hmm... Purslane The tea is sour and delicious. I don’t know what it’s used for. But the priests said it’s good…”
The moonlight rises and the bay is a quiet night. The two people, who met from far and wide, just talked and gestured in front of the campfire for half the night until late at night.
The next day, Mikey the Knowledgeable dozed off, sat on the rocking longboat, and continued sailing north. The long boat rowed for more than forty miles before reaching the north shore. Then, under the guidance of the hunter Le Feng, everyone continued to row along a wide river toward the northern interior upstream.
"It's very wide and the water is very clear... Lefeng, what kind of river is this?"
"Ah? Oh, this water is drinkable. You can drink it directly. It's also a little sweet, Tianshui River!" Sui
"Well…"
Mikey the Knowledgeable glared at the translator and asked again.
"I said, what kind of river is this? Its name, its name!"
"Name? Hmm... around this river, there are many flying birds falling, and some big cats come to catch the birds. We usually call it Bird Cat River!"
"Bird Cat River?..."
Mickey the Knowledgeable blinked his eyes and wrote down the name of the river on the paper again. He did not know that the name of this long river would be called "Napa River" in later generations, which means "a river with leopards" in Spanish. And he would not know that in later generations, the fertile land irrigated by this sweet water river would become a world-famous wine producing area, California's "Napa Valley"!
The terrain of the valley is very long and narrow, more than 100 miles from north to south, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and has a warm and pleasant climate. The Napa River flows between the valleys, nourishing the fertile soil along the river, and also flows into the large bay in the south. Everyone rowed north along the river for half a day, and patches of green farmland began to appear on both sides of the river. Then, several miles of tribal camps, continuous thatched huts, and thousands of Miwok tribesmen appeared in the fertile valley! furtively glance
"O Lord God! I have finally arrived in the mountain valleys suitable for farming and the powerful and fertile North Bay!"
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