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Chapter 299 Tierra del Fuego

Deng Zilong's fleet, whom he had been thinking about day and night, has been stranded on Tierra del Fuego for more than two months.

There are no volcanoes on the island, and this name comes from the bonfires that Magellan saw on the island’s natives.

"On the equator, the colder the north, the colder the more you go to the south...suck! The colder it is."

Zhao Shizhen wrapped in a thick and poorly sewn original camel leather jacket, sniffed his nose, held a pottery pot and hot tea to the fleet officer sitting in a circle around the charcoal brazier in the shed, saying, "And the seasons in the north and the south are different, the north is frozen three feet, the south is bright sunshine; the north is bright sunshine, and the south is frozen three feet."

He and Deng Zilong met on Tierra del Fuego. To be precise, he set off first and arrived at Tierra del Fuego first. He found that he could not get there, so he had to go ashore. The fleet behind him could not continue to move forward even after passing here. He just saw them stranded on the shore with snow-covered ships, so he followed them to find them.

Their sailing day was wrong.

The season that should have gone from spring to summer is from autumn to winter. Seeing the high and low mountains turning white little by little, they were wearing thin summer clothes, but they could no longer withstand the freezing, and could no longer hold on to the return flight, so they could only go ashore to avoid the long winter.

Zhao Shizhen's accompanying fleet was a franchise, but there were only six ships with three Dingjia fleets arranged by Deng Zilong, who were fully prepared for war. In order to save baggage, other ships were only equipped with even sailors and were only responsible for transportation tasks.

They had a lot of baggage, but they did not have clothes to protect the cold.

Fortunately, there are indigenous people on Tierra del Fuego. Although several tribes don’t look smart, they are strong and kind to others. Because neither the West nor Portuguese are here for too long, they have not found any gold and silver goods, so they are not enslaved or hurt. Therefore, they are willing to help Zhao Shizhen and other people in distress.

The original camel is a four-legged mammal widely distributed in Peru, Chile and other places. It has tall limbs and runs very fast. Although it has no hump, it has hooves similar to camels. This is how the Spanish call this animal, and their similar species on Tierra Tierra have thicker furs to resist the cold.

They are almost everything about the natives living here. Their houses are sheds with a few wood, and they are considered to be living with people with raw camel skin; their food is raw camel's meat, and they can be full after roasting; their weapons are the bones of the original camel, the bones of the leg bones and the broken bones that have been eaten after eating bone marrow, and the spearheads.

Zhao Shizhen and the flag army are not immune to the customs at this point. Apart from the Yuancao and the Rabbit, they could not find any other animals with thick furs that could keep them from getting cold. There is a mountain of snow-capped mountains and lakes, so there is no shortage of food.

Of course, food is relatively scarce for the indigenous people. Large animals like seals have difficult to kill with bone arrows, and close combat seems even less clever, but this is not a problem for bird guns.

"There are three tribes on the island. The tribes to the west were driven from the northern continent by Westerners. The tribes to the south of the island are short and primitive. The indigenous people living in the northeast are tall and strong, and they are not afraid of the cold. They only need to wear camels to fish barefoot on the ice for one or two hours."

Zhao Shizhen said and said with a smile: "They live in the northeast and call him Nanren."

To be precise, they call themselves Saikonan or Serkennan. Although they have faces similar to Mongols, they are extremely strong. The average adult male is five feet and six inches tall. Any man with painted painted body is half a head taller than Zhao Shizhen.

The smallest unit of mechanics can only compete with the women of Saikonan, and the outcome is still between 50 and 50.

The strong body and cold-resistant body made the officers from Beiyang plan to recruit some heroes from the Saikonan tribe.

"How is our house repaired?"

Zhao Shizhen, who was frozen, didn't even dare to leave the shed for half a month. He assigned this in the house all day long, and even if he got some small things like paper and pen back to the boat, he had to do it for others. He wrote a thick stack of books about his experiences on this trip.

Fortunately, the Beiyang Fleet had a complete military medical system and the ship's supplies and medicines, which made him save his life. Otherwise, he would not be able to keep warm or be properly treated in such a place. If the calligraphers of the Ming Dynasty could not do it well, they would explain that they would always be with glaciers on this land called the "end of the world" by the Spanish.

Is it so dangerous to give a beef?

"It's almost built, but these wooden courtyards may not be used."

The Nanyang Military Mansion who knew best in sailing in the Ming Dynasty was the Nanyang Military Mansion. Even after the establishment of the Beiyang Army, the captain who led the team to carry the ship was always transferred from the Nanyang Military Mansion. They were nothing more than the Beiyang Banner Army as gunners and sailors, and then slowly became captains.

The Fleet Admiral and the third phase of the Beiyang Banner Army have not been able to climb to this position, and this time is no exception.

The person who led the fleet was Sun Ao. In the past, when Chen Mu was the Qianhu of Xiangshan, he was the other deputy Qianhu of Deng Zilong.

In terms of qualifications, this guy is better than Zhao Shizhen, but he is very responsible in front of the mechanics unit... Those who follow Chen Mu will always encounter opportunities and merits, and they don't talk about qualifications here.

Talk about luck.

He said: "The Sekonan people said that the glaciers would start to melt in another month. At most, by September, the fleet would set sail to Argentina, the Governor General of Peru, and the road to the north would be easier."

As Sun Ao opened his original camel leather jacket. This original camel jacket from Saikonan people was actually a piece of long leather, like a quilt. At least in Sun Ao's eyes, it could not be considered a clothes, and it was easy to wear it. It was to open your hands and hold the two corners, then cross your arms in front of you.

He took out a small book from his arms, searched for the information he needed, and said, "On the coast of Argentina, there is an abandoned town called Buenos Aires, which means the city of Maria's tailwind. Because the garrison was always attacked by the indigenous people, he could only give up."

"They now live in Asuncion, two thousand miles north of Shunfeng City, meaning Maria Feitian City... Deng Shuai means that I will leave two hundred households in Shunfeng City in the past to survey and map the surrounding terrain."

"It will take one month to repair the courtyard and barracks, and you will have to set off after living there for less than two months, and these houses will be abandoned."

"It can be left to the Sekonan people, but they don't."

Sun Ao opened his hands and said, "They don't have a village or farm. They can do whatever they want to chase the original camel. These houses are useless to them. The land suitable for planting is thirty miles away recently, so even if they teach them how to plant them, they are not needed."

"But this is a port." Zhao Shizhen took over and said, "We are stuck here this year, and the fleet will still be stuck here in the future. There will always be people who miss the time, and it will be useful if they are repaired. Put the flag here, place the stone tablet here, and tell the Saikonan people that this is our port, we, including the Saikonan people."
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