Speaking of which, the tough and shrewd Seventh Brother, in order to stabilize the emotions of Erdan and Hua Dan, worked together in this ice and snow without causing trouble, lowered his head and said quietly: "What a foreign devil! Ya was born in 1728

November 7, died on February 14, 1779. He was a great navigator, a famous explorer and an excellent cartographer.

This boy has been ordered by the Queen of England to sail to the vast Pacific three times. He led a large crew and became the first Europeans to land on the east coast of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands in the history of world navigation. He was also the first European ship to circumnavigate New Zealand.

voyage records.

During his voyage, he would dock whenever he saw an island. The large amount of mysterious treasures he mysteriously obtained during the voyage were buried in Antarctica, including the Chinese Tantric Iron Tree Skull!

"Who told you this? You, you, how did you know?" Snake King Erdan shook his gourd head, made a tile face, tilted his mouth and squinted his eyes, rudely interrupting Brother Qi's story, very distrustful.

asked.

"Damn it, my master, your uncle Tu Tu, who is still alive and dead, told me this personally"! Seventh Brother said nonchalantly.

"Really?" Snake King Erdan asked suspiciously.

"It's not true, it's false. Go ask your uncle!" Brother Qi said angrily.

"Ah, ah, I, I, I, I believe, you, you, you, you, you, you, continue talking"! Snake King Erdan Thief tilted his head and said.

So Seventh Brother rolled his eyes at him and continued: "On January 17, 1773, the British sailing ship "Resolution" was preparing to sail around the world. It was said that the ship was carrying 462 tons of cargo.

Crew of one hundred and ninety-three.

These sailors who were not afraid of death, led by the awesome Captain Cook, officially entered the Antarctic Circle near 30 degrees east longitude.

Then he crossed the Antarctic Circle and looked for Antarctica, which he had never seen before. According to recorded data, this was also the first person to enter and leave the Antarctic Circle! Do you think Old Cook is awesome enough?"

Snake King Erdan nodded in admiration and said: "That's that!" He not only admired the foreign captain's courage, but also admired Brother Seven's memory. In fact, his uncle Tu Ye also told him a lot about tomb robbing and treasure hunting.

story, but this kid never remembered it.

At this time, Snake King Erdan looked at the low sun in the sky and couldn't fall into the sea. He raised his neck and asked Brother Qi: "Why is it always dark every day?"

Brother Qi strongly suppressed his impatience and anger, thinking to himself, this bastard is really careless, it would be strange if I didn't punch him all over the floor with big teeth at home."

But for the sake of the overall situation, he had to endure it and said as calmly as possible: "Today is December 22nd, the winter solstice! If we were in Beijing, everyone would be eating dumplings. Today, the sun shines directly on the Tropic of Cancer, and the entire

The land south of the Antarctic Circle has extreme daylight.

"What the hell is Ji Zhou?" Snake King Erdan asked curiously like a little friend in geography class today!

Brother Qi almost fainted! He sighed and said slowly: "It's all daytime, no night"!

"Damn it, how can I sleep?" Erdaner said, rubbing the back of his head.

Brother Qi was about to collapse. He almost dodged with a huge blow. He paused and said as slowly as possible: "From now on, the scope of the polar night will gradually shrink. By the spring equinox on March 23rd of the next year

At that time, the extreme day will fucking end, and if the extreme night comes, the night will come, and there will be no daylight. If we haven't found the Tantric Skull and Cook's treasure by then, we'll sleep to death, you ***

”.

Snake King Erdan actually laughed when he heard this, and asked with a smile: "I know, tell me about that Captain Pants".

Brother Qi rolled his eyes and said: "After I finished talking about this matter, I want to give you a clear understanding. You are not allowed to ask any more questions from now on. We have to hurry up and get to work!"

"Okay, okay, you, you, you tell"!

Brother Seven tried hard to smoke a big pipe, exhaled a puff of green smoke that drifted in the wind and said: "The era when Cook grew up was a great era! It was a period of great prosperity for Western exploration.

In 1767, the Wallis expedition that discovered Tahiti claimed that they had seen the mountains of the southern mainland in the sunset over the Pacific;

Immediately afterwards, Britain's most famous "utopian explorer - Alexander Dalrymple" quickly calculated that the population of this continent was 50 million. This so-called discovery shocked the foreign devils all over the damn European continent.

.

Because a long time ago, even as early as the ancient Greek times, the so-called southern continent has been a hot topic of discussion among old scholars for a long time.

Some foreigners believe that there are many continents in the northern hemisphere, so from the perspective of balancing the weight of the earth, the southern hemisphere should also have a large landmass.

Otherwise, due to the loss of equilibrium, the earth's rotation will inevitably sway from side to side. In fact, the earth's rotation has always been very stable. From this, we can guess that there must be a southern continent.

Therefore, the British government expressed great interest in the discovery of the Wallis expedition. In order to discover and occupy this southern continent before other countries and expand the territory of the British Empire, the British government selected Cook.

The captain set out on a long voyage to find this mysterious southern continent.

On August 25, 1768, the sun was shining brightly. Captain Cook, with a proud and smiling face, boarded the large voyage ship Endeavor and led the sailors to set sail from England.

Although this ship weighs 386 tons, it is slightly old and the configuration system on the ship is not very satisfactory. However, Captain Cook, with his great personality and navigation experience, has no time to care about these insignificant issues.

I am still full of confidence in this voyage.

When the large sailing ship Endeavor passed through Plymouth Sound and the English Channel and headed for the vast Atlantic Ocean, they stopped at the Madeira Islands, docked for a short rest, and then began to sail towards South America.

When they crossed Cape Horn smoothly and finally arrived at Tahiti, it was already nearly a year after setting off from the UK.

It was the dog days of 1769 when Captain Cook and his sailors arrived at the incredibly beautiful island of Tahiti, which was rich in Tahitian black pearls.

It is said that the sun was shining that day, the sky was clear, and Matavi Bay was as level as a mirror. This was the golden time for scientific surveys.

A few days later, the extremely rare transit of Venus appeared in the sky, and the entire expedition team immediately became excited.

The first mate, who was so happy, kept jumping on the deck like a dancing master. The sailors who worked hard on weekdays rarely soothed their eyes. They couldn't even see a girl, so they were all vying to go there at this time.

Take a look at something rare.

At that time, the British scientists who came with the trip were surrounding two temporary astronomical telescopes on the shore, conducting astronomical observations and calculating the distance between the sun and the earth.

Some uniformed naval officers also got off the ship and went ashore to join in the fun, helping to lift the heavy large telescope stand. No one noticed that Captain Cook was the only one left on the ship.

At this time, Captain Cook was concerned about another major event. Before leaving, the Admiralty had solemnly given him instructions, asking him to complete this astronomical observation and seize the opportunity to sail away to carry out a seal issued to him——

A more important and serious mission.
Chapter completed!