"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, which is built on the edge of flowing golden streams and huge rolling golden mountains, is getting further and further away from us..."
"Praise the Lord God! His 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 long and the nights are 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 clearly understand I know that those hazy white mountains really exist in the distance, and they are very, very, very high..."
The cold wind comes from the north, sometimes blowing due south, sometimes blowing southwest. Mikey, the knowledgeable man, rubbed his hands vigorously, looked at the icebergs in the northeast, and imagined the place behind the icebergs where the cold wind was blowing.
From the Eyak and Sugpiaq tribes he had met before, he learned about the endless snowfields further north. It is the extremity area where the Ice God sleeps. There are ice and snow that are difficult to melt all year round or even never melt, as well as truly magnificent icebergs that stretch thousands of miles.
"North of 60 degrees north latitude, 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, and everything withers. 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, Mikey, the knowledgeable man, 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 in the depths are deep black forests. Farther away, there are endless gray-brown mountains. There are towering mountains of ice and snow shining in the clouds!…”
"And 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 migratory and spawning, 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, lakesides and rivers, one after another, as if they had been nurtured by the milk of the goddess!… In groups Salmon, salmon, and spotted fish, flashing with bright red, silvery white or spots, swam upstream of the river, looking for lakes to spawn... There were also robust and majestic bald eagles and pure and holy white spoonbills. , 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 herds at this 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, Mickey the Knowledgeable took a deep breath. He seemed to smell the fragrant fragrance of flowers again and hear the singing of birds. And when he thought of the fresh fruits and the easily caught sea fish in summer, he couldn't help but lick his 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 a lot of berries, including sweet blueberries, red mulberries, sour cherry berries, cranberries, very sour raspberries, blackberries... This is a long-standing tradition of the exploration fleet, because His Majesty gave 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 fish Large 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 recalled the scene of summer barbecues at the beach. Sailors from all departments were grilling salmon. Only he and Zuvalo were grilling a dozen lobsters and crabs each. Only the two leaders of the fleet have the power to use this kind of extravagant fuel. The warriors of the kingdom are not used to eating bland fish, and usually choose to grill venison, which is more filling and easier to build strength. They will also use precious salt to marinate large quantities of simply smoked deer legs and shoulders for long-term storage.
"Witness the Lord God! The climate is warm in summer and food is plentiful, but the biggest problem is food storage! On this cold northern coast, all the tribes along the way are fishing and hunting. There are only a small amount of sour fruits, roots, pine nuts, and dry moss. There is no Any grain that can be stored. For these tribes, frozen meat buried in the snow in late autumn is the staple food in winter. Bacon and cured meat that can be stored for a long time are eaten during the winter that lasts for half a year and in the spring of April. Before arriving, their most important life-saving food! 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, 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, there are no people who can live beyond the age of forty or even thirty-five. Humans 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 took a look at White Bear Gaowa, who looked astonishingly mature but was actually not yet eighteen years old. In fact, among these northern tribes, a woman usually gives birth to her first child around the age of fifteen. 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 feathers, and even spices and cocoa carried by the fleet become less and less worth mentioning in the eyes of the tribes along the coast. And the large jars of salt carried by the fleet , barrels of ballasted flint are the real hard currency and real wealth of the Northland!..."
"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 showed 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 protect against 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 don't need their bone tools, stone tools, or the paint on their utensils. Those bright pigments come from unknown sources... For the entire exploration fleet, the only thing we need 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 predicted in His Majesty's divine revelation, every time the fleet encounters a hunting seaside tribe, it will make a request to the other party for additional sailors. If the other party refuses, the fleet will not force it. But generally speaking, after hearing the conditions proposed by the fleet, most of these tribes will send one, two, or even more young men to join the "lake tribe" who "sits on the big boat and hunts on the sea."
"In this beautiful, majestic, cold and harsh extreme north 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 by a 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 kilograms of salt and fifty kilograms of flint to hunt from the Purple Bay of the Eyak people in the Purple Bay of Yakutat. I got it from the Ministry!…”
Note: I checked geographical and tribal information for a day yesterday. The Easter Egg Chapter is an exploration map of the Gulf of Alaska, which will unfold along the exploration track.
Note again: The Gulf of Alaska is surrounded by the sea to the south and is blocked by the continuous mountains to the north, so the climate tends to be mild. The average summer temperature is 15-16 degrees, and the average winter temperature is minus 2-3 degrees. After crossing the continuous mountains and walking eight to nine hundred miles north, the average winter temperature in Fairbanks becomes minus 20 degrees. Of course, this is modern data. During the Little Ice Age at the end of the 15th century, the average temperature might have been about ten degrees lower.
