Chapter 869: The Napa Valley without Grapes, the North Bay of the Miwok People
"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. On the coastal plain, the leaders of the fleet communicate in low voices, as if they have encountered some difficult choice. And the five Miwok
The human hunters stood on the other side, close to their boat. While they waited patiently, they watched the arguing people warily.
"Since the chief of the North Bay has sent out an invitation, he won't be too malicious. 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 have just arrived here.
, the farmland has just been planted, and the house has not been repaired, it must be a period of stability to lay the foundation!"
Mikey, the Knowledgeable One, 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, with obvious worry 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 go with 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, Lu Chong."
Mickey the Knowledgeable smiled and answered 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 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 gem cotton cloth, copper axes and spears as gifts...just in case something happens.
The problem is, for the sake of these gifts that they don’t have, we still have a chance to redeem you..."
"Hmm...ok!"
This time, Mickey did not 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 people's small boat was obviously not enough. A kingdom's longship, accompanied by the Miwok 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.
"Ah? 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 southern land, 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!"
The knowledgeable Mickey smiled, pointed at the sun amulet in Le Feng's hand, and spoke in a gentle and friendly manner.
"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?...Ah?! He was transformed into a sacred tree spirit and can make big trees grow into boats? Wow! What a powerful and strange ancestral spirit of the gods!"
The cloaked 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. After talking happily for a long time, the long boat only rowed fifty or sixty miles, and did not even reach the northern coast. This large bay is too wide. From Xishan Port to the north shore, there is a full stretch of
It's more than a hundred miles. And it definitely can't be reached in one day.
As night fell, everyone moved to the east coast and spent the night on the beach. In June and July in Jinwan, the daytime temperature is around 20 degrees, and the night temperature is around 10 degrees. The overall climate
It's fairly mild, but sometimes it's windy and you need to sleep with a thick blanket.
"Ah? This is 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 quite reliable. Mikey, the knowledgeable man, moved his eyes 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.
"We would go south and trade with the Yokut people. Sometimes we would exchange furs for the cloth in their hands. And they couldn't grow cloth, so we had 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 person 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 as numerous as the feathers of grouse spreading out... They are better at farming than we are, and can grow a lot of pumpkins and corns.
, 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 suddenly 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 you. Well, if you are injured and eat it, it will not hurt so much, and it will not hurt.
Wounds are easy to rot...As for the leaves of the frankincense tree, they can also relieve pain...We hunters always bring some dried echinacea when we travel far..."
The cloaked hunter Le Feng fumbled and took out a small cluster of gray-blue echinacea from his arms and handed it to Mickey.
"Try it! The tribe's priest 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 man, curiously took the echinacea, looked at it, smelled it, and stuffed it into his mouth. He chewed it, and it tasted bitter at first, and then gradually became sweet. After a while, it was indeed there.
Mickey thought for a while, then immediately took out the scroll and went to the campfire. He drew the echinacea, recorded the efficacy of this herb, and asked the hunter Le Feng a few words from time to time. Since the fleet wants to settle here for a long time
, then there will definitely be diseases that appear locally. The herbs of these tribes will be very useful to everyone, and will even be beneficial to the southern kingdoms and alliances.
"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 cure the men's vaginal obstructions... Yarrow, which can treat the 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 to make tea and drink it to sleep... You are from the south, so you should know. Hmm... Purslane
Tea, it’s sour and delicious, I don’t know what it’s used for. But the priests said it’s good…”
The moonlight rose, and it was a quiet night in the bay. The two people who met from far and wide, talked like this in front of the bonfire for half a night, until late at night.
The next day, the knowledgeable Mickey dozed off, sat on the rocking long boat, and continued sailing north. The long boat rowed for more than forty miles before arriving at the north shore. Then, under the guidance of the hunter Le Feng, everyone
Along a large and wide river, we continue to paddle toward the northern inland 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…"
Mickey 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?…”
The knowledgeable Mickey blinked and recorded the name of the river on the paper. He did not know that the name of this long river would be called "Napa River" in later generations, which means "where leopards roam" in Spanish.
River". 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 a hundred miles from north to south, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the climate is warm and pleasant. The Napa River flows through the valley, nourishing the fertile soil along the river, and also flows into the large bay in the south. People follow the river to the
Half a day had passed to the north, and patches of green farmland began to appear on both sides of the river. Then, tribal camps stretching for several miles, continuous thatched huts, and thousands of Miwok tribesmen, just in the rich
Appeared in the valley!
"O Lord God! I have finally arrived in the mountain valleys suitable for farming and the powerful and fertile North Bay!"
