Aztec Civilization: Destiny to Conquer America!-Chapter 1459 - 1012: Scholar’s Nautical Journal, Far North Coast Recap, Eight ’Divine’ Ports
"Chief Divine bless! After the Kingdom’s support fleet arrived, facing seven hundred Kingdom’s Warriors and sailors, the conversion of the entire Makan Whale Tribe became a natural outcome. This small tribe of only five to six hundred people, had already intermarried with the Kingdom’s Warriors and sailors, establishing mutual trust. And Zuwaro, this guy, even married the Whale Tribe chieftain’s elder hunter Whalesea’s youngest daughter as his fourth wife... Chief Divine! I seriously suspect if someday, Zuwaro enters the Kingdom’s Inquisition, he might never come out again!..."
"Although the Whale Tribe’s population is not large, their significance to the Kingdom is very important! They possess unique whaling techniques and occupy straits and capes through which whales pass. With the Whale Tribe’s whale-attracting technology, understanding of whale habits, plus the Kingdom’s large ships, javelins, and powerful crossbows, coastal whaling can be stabilized! And as long as they can capture a big whale, tens of thousands of pounds, even a hundred thousand pounds of fish meat output, huge amounts of high-quality oil, can almost provide abundant food supply for the whole support fleet!..."
"Praise the Chief Divine! In fact, the Kingdom Ports and coastal tribes along the way are not very abundant in food. The Kingdom’s support fleet has never stored enough grain. But after arriving at the Whale Tribe, the support fleet participated in whaling, killing a magnificent big fin whale, gaining forty to fifty thousand pounds of whale meat, and several thousand pounds of oil!..."
"At Whale Harbor, the support fleet unloaded most of the blue salt, a small amount of firestone, replenishing food that can support the whole fleet for four full months, mainly salted whale meat and whale oil that can be stored and eaten! At the same time, the fleet left sixty Warriors and sailors from the Kingdom’s Main Force, supplemented by thirty Makan sailors. This way, Whale Harbor’s population reached seven hundred people. About one-third of them are from the Kingdom’s Main Force, ensuring stability!"
"In Whale Harbor’s arrangement, First Level Preaching Priest Zuyu served as the village priest, marrying the guide Whaledog’s sister. Old chieftain Whalesea converted to the Chief Divine, engraved the Chief Divine’s Emblem on his forehead, but still served as the village leader of Whale Tribe, responsible for daily whaling activities. Chieftain Whalesea is a truly wise and open-minded elder hunter. After the support fleet appeared, he did not reject ’joining the ’amazingly powerful Longboat Tribe’, even easily converted by Blood Oath, engraving the Chief Divine’s Emblem on his body. For him, as long as the tribe’s continuation was assured, and tribespeople’s lives improved, positions like ’chieftain, leader’ were actually not important. Of course, life in the Northern Land is tough and miserable, these small tribe chieftains have to lead the tribe to constantly migrate, personally participate in hunting, fishing and gathering, even personally fighting other tribes, truly the least enjoyable chieftain I have ever seen!..."
"By the end of April, the support fleet of ten longships completed supply at Whale Harbor. Priest Kejie handed over with us and returned south to North Port to seek his own achievements. Praise the Chief Divine! Zuwaro and I, after waiting a long half-year and experiencing the snowy winter, can finally set off again to push the exploration of Your Majesty’s Divine Revelation! Of course, our first destination for departure is not the thousand-mile Long Island of northern Siuslaw people but the Salt Creek Tribe of southeastern Klallam people. Hundreds of warriors in the fleet were gathered together, a force extremely amazing in the Northern Land! We will give the old grandmother of Salt Creek Tribe a small shock of the Chief Divine! Best if we can, with the fleet’s sufficient strength, ’persuade’ them to convert to the Chief Divine, even if just nominal acceptance!..."
The long night stretches on, stars like an ocean. Starlight twinkles in the night sky, reflecting on the deep sea surface. The aroma of whale soup lingers on the mountain top, attracting distant red foxes and arctic foxes who cautiously peek out. To the four-legged fierce beasts, they have always been vigilant, almost the only predators on the island. In this era, predators don’t care about their beautiful fur but covet their scarce few pounds of meat. This is also the reason for their survival. Until one day, their pure colorful fur becomes a luxury more valued than gold, true destruction comes then!
"Wow! Such beautiful foxes!"
Exploration Captain Zuwaro glanced at the spot of pure white and fiery red not far away, in the firelight. He blinked his eyes, the fur on those foxes seemed flawless. If he could bring them back to Lake Capital City, it would be a wonderful gift to delight the noble ladies beyond measure, perhaps even willing to offer themselves. However, the significant mission of exploration weighs heavily on him, leaving no time for such trivial matters.
"Miki, the old grandmother of Salt Creek Tribe allied with us, nominally converted to the Chief Divine, and accepted the Kingdom’s First Level Preaching Priest, Tayumi. With Salt Creek Tribe as a mediator, we have communication channels with various tribes around the Bay of Hundred Lakes, creating an extra route to obtain salt!..."
"In fact, ten longships, seven hundred warriors and sailors, such strong force, is enough to establish roots in the Bay of Hundred Lakes! But exploring further, continued port establishment means we can’t leave too many people in the Bay of Hundred Lakes... Now it seems this distant Far North land, the long journey westwards might surpass the long Western Sea Coast!"
"Chief Divine bless! Indeed! From Whale Harbor heading north can be considered the Northwest Coast, Far North Coastal area! Along the way, the supply ports we established..."
Scholar Mikki nodded seriously. He rubbed his hands, extending his fingers, calculating port by port.
"Witness of the Chief Divine! First is Divine Shellfish Fish Port on Siuslaw people’s Long Island, next is Divine Eagle Wing Port at the intersection of Tlingit and Haida people, followed by Divine Jinxi Port at Tlingit people’s hunting grounds, also referred to by Your Majesty as Juneau’s Great Jin Mine. Further ahead is Divine Blood Bay Port where Eyak people reside, Divine Great Whale Port where Sugpiaq people are found, Divine Land Port where Unanga people appear, and where we are now, Divine Peak Mountain Port!... Just a quick count, that’s eight ports, a journey of seven, eight thousand miles!"
"Exactly! On the Northwest Coast, we’ve already established eight ports named after ’Divine’! And at each port, we left a longship, sixty to seventy warriors and sailors, to recruit surrounding tribes... Chief Divine! When departing Whale Harbor, I thought the ten longships of the support fleet were enough to reach the western island chain’s end! But unexpectedly..."
At this point, Exploration Captain Zuwaro shook his head with a wry smile. But he knows well, establishing supply points along the journey, recruiting various Far North tribes, follows Your Majesty’s Divine Revelation and is the most prudent and safe expansion approach! After all, not only do they need to explore this barren cold coast but also develop stable supply routes on the Far North Sea. And although winters on the Far North Coast are harsh, spring, summer, autumn catches are indeed plentiful!
"I think we were mid-May, circumnavigating the southern side of the thousand-mile Long Island of the Siuslaw people, then at the northern-most point of Long Island, at the location I previously selected, left the first longship, and established Divine Shellfish Fish Port! What was the latitude of that port calculated at? Oh, right, 51 degrees north!"
