"Your Lordship, our journey this time is much smoother than expected. The New Sauer Island should be in front of us." The captain took out his sextant and chart to check and said to Lawrence with a happy face, "
According to the current situation, we should be able to reach our destination by noon."
After all, this captain has neither been a captain nor been here before, so in this era without GPS navigation, being able to reach the destination on time or even slightly earlier is already a great thing.
At the same time, being able to arrive at the destination on time also shows that he is very lucky. In this era, luck is an essential part of life at sea, especially it is even more rare to be a captain for the first time and sail so smoothly. So now the captain sees
The mood was very good when I went up there.
As time goes by, the ship is getting closer and closer to the island. At the same time, the appearance of the island also appears in everyone's eyes: the entire island is like an upside-down straw hat, which is obviously higher in the middle and lower on the sides.
Image. The highest point in the middle should be the Blue Mountain with an altitude of 2,700 meters.
The reason why this mountain is called Blue Mountain is also very simple. Because the entire mountain is made of stone, the vegetation is very sparse and you can see the mountain below. So it looks blue from a distance. The name of the mountain is also
Hence the name.
As for why there are so many mountain peaks on the surrounding islands, it is normal that only this mountain has a name that is placed on the general navigation chart. After all, for these densely green islands in the Star Sea, this mountain is unique.
The deep blue mountain peaks do look a little different. The first person to name this place marked it on the map because the distinctive mountain color could help navigators navigate.
As the fleet approached the island further, Lawrence discovered that more than a dozen islands, large and small, appeared on the edge of the big island. According to the map given to Lawrence when he was entrusted with the title, these islands were actually some of the new Saul Island.
The outlying islands also belong to Lawrence, Earl of Sauer.
But the problem is that these islands now look very desolate. Some of them even appear to be less than one meter above the sea. Maybe they will submerge under the sea when the tide rises. They are more like rocks than islands.
"——There are more than 60 small islands around New Saul Island. Only three of them have fresh water. Therefore, they are almost worthless. Similarly, the surrounding sea areas are also relatively barren." After seeing those small islands, Lawrence immediately
I remembered the specific information about these islands written in the information.
But when he raised his telescope and looked at several small islands, he could confirm that the people who wrote these records probably just heard about certain situations and recorded them as facts.
Because he found that there were large groups of seabirds flying around on two relatively high-altitude islands within his sight, and there were also many bird nests on the islands. According to the knowledge that the God of Knowledge blessed and instilled last time, these birds
They should all be birds that are not very good at long-distance flying. They cannot fly thousands of kilometers at a time like the albatross.
In other words, there must be a large-scale fishing ground nearby. It is not just a barren ocean as the data shows.
But think about it, it rains frequently on such a large island, so there must be a lot of organic matter on the island that flows into the ocean with precipitation and surface water, so it is normal to attract fish.
As for struvite, another resource that may be produced after birds gather, it is unlikely to be available here. After all, struvite requires an arid climate to accumulate bit by bit. And just look at New Saul Island not far away.
From the lush tropical jungle, normal people can tell that the amount of precipitation in this place is definitely not small.
"I'll go up and have a look." Nora got out of the cabin at this time and quickly flew high into the sky. As her flight altitude continued to increase and her position changed, Lawrence, who shared the field of vision with her, saw a pear-shaped
The large emerald green island floats quietly on the sea, and there are some inconspicuous small islands around it.
However, because the island is so large, Lawrence can only see a part of the big island near the east coast. But in this field of view, they only saw two small ones on the coastline of at least fifty or sixty kilometers.
village.
"It feels like this island is a little too deserted." Nora said directly to Lawrence after landing from the sky, "It seems that there are no more than 1,000 people living on such a long coastline."
"That's because the people on this island are mainly concentrated in the north of the island, and we are now in the southeast of the island." Butler Bayer said to Nora, as a well-informed elder, he probably
Guessed Nora's identity and treated her as Lawrence's sister in daily life. "Because there are more flat lands in the west, and there are also more convenient water sources."
"So that's it! I understand, Grandpa Bayer." Nora said and nodded slightly to Butler Bayer. "Then we will drive the ship directly to Tanas Town, the largest town on the island in the north.
Join the others?"
"Of course not." Lawrence said at this time. "We have a variety of tools and materials on the ship, so there is no need to waste time in Tarnas Town. As for the others, I have just used the telegraph machine on the ship.
After contacting them, they will take a boat directly south to meet us."
The entire fleet first sailed westward for a while, and after reaching the westernmost edge of the island, they turned 90° to the north and headed north. At about 12:00 noon, they came to a natural bay.
A peninsula several kilometers long extends directly into the sea from the northern part of the bay. On the peninsula are small mountains of two to three hundred meters, which can just block the strong winds and huge waves that blow towards the coast.
After the fleet entered the bay along the channel at the top of the peninsula, a vast plain appeared in front of everyone. At the southernmost edge of the entire plain, a river with an outlet of more than 150 meters wide separated the plain from the hilly areas further east.
It was divided and provided a large amount of fresh water to the entire plain.
According to Lawrence's visual inspection, the entrance of the harbor is about 800 meters wide, and the inside is a calm bay with a depth of 2.5 kilometers and a length of 5.5 kilometers. The best thing is that more than 2,000 meters outward from the entrance of the harbor
There happens to be a reef to the left and right, which can block the wind and waves coming from the outer sea.
"What a wonderful place." Lawrence sighed, and the retainers around him also nodded with satisfaction.
However, many times there are always flaws in perfect things. For example, when the ship sailed into the bay through the gap just now, I saw a few shit-yellow goblins sticking fish on the beach with wooden sticks or directly going into the water to catch fish with their hands.
However, after seeing the big ship entering the bay, they ran into the woods behind the beach and disappeared.
Lawrence originally thought that the goblins were trying to escape when the situation was bad, but what he didn't expect was that when all the ships entered the bay and sent the first batch of landers to the shore, a group of goblins suddenly came out of the woods under the leadership of their leader.
They rushed out, apparently wanting to annihilate this group of Earl Guards who had just landed on land.
"This should be a tribe of goblins." Lawrence, who was standing on the side of the ship, looked at the group of goblins with his binoculars and said, "It seems that they want to take advantage of the situation of being mixed with our people to prevent us from firing. They are really cunning.
"
"But it's not worth worrying about, my lord." Butler Bayer also answered with a telescope, "These goblins are just ordinary goblins, and there is only one bugbear warrior that can fight. Although our guard only has this group of goblins
1/3 of the goblins, but under the command of Knight Joseph, we will definitely achieve a brilliant victory."