Chapter 104

Heading southwest.

At present, it is still the end of winter and the beginning of spring, but with the gradual decline of latitude, the temperature at sea has gradually risen.

The temperature of more than 20 degrees is pleasant, the sea breeze blows slightly, not stuffy or dry.

Such beautiful weather greatly alleviated the increasingly uncontrollable irritability of the sailors. Lorraine was relieved and finally had leisure to carefully proofread the charts.

In fact, he is doing more accurate and positioning things every day. Without a full-time navigator, he is the only guarantee to ensure that the golden deer will not get lost in the sea.

But on the day of the thunderstorm, the octet on board was damaged, so it could only barely maintain a rough accuracy to ensure the accuracy of the course.

As for where you are and how far you are from your destination, even through a lot of Surveying and calculation, it is impossible to get this information.

Lorraine had been counting on the deck all morning and had only identified a few things.

First, the golden deer is in the right direction.

Second, it's not far from the Caribbean Sea. As for how far it is, it's about 111 kilometers to 555 kilometers, that is, the span of five latitudes.

With such a big error, Lorraine regretted that he didn't buy the latest sextant for standby before sailing.

If you have a sextant

"Discover the island!" he was regretting, when an excited shout came from the position of the lookout.

Lorraine looked up and looked up at the mast: "here? The island?"

"Captain, it's eleven o'clock, twenty-two kilometers away. It's confirmed. It's really an island!"

"Even the minimum error?"

Lorraine couldn't think of anything else. He threw away the octopus, ran up the main mast in three or two steps, grabbed the lookout's single barrel mirror and looked in the direction of the island.

The looking glass shows a tropical island full of green.

Winding coastline, shining silver sand and clear blue sea.

There are groups of white pelicans flying on the sea. Bright golden phoenix is planted everywhere on the island. The orange red corolla dotted Phnom Penh is like a flame butterfly perching on the branches of green trees.

The trees here are so strange that their slender branches hang along the coastline and are stained with green moss. At first glance, they look like the lips of an island with a thick beard.

"White pelicans, Goldilocks, strange islands with green beards..." Lorraine muttered, "that's Barbados. The easternmost tip of the Caribbean, Barbados in the little Antilles."

He reached out and grabbed the cable, jumped down from the high lookout and landed on the deck.

"Gentlemen, Barbados! We... Succeeded!"

"Long live!"

……

After 42 days, Lorraine and his golden deer set out from Southampton, reached the middle ridge along the high latitude route, sailed southwest along the middle ridge sea area, crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached Barbados, completing his first ocean voyage as a leader.

All the way up, they escaped icebergs, experienced thunderstorms, adopted sea parrots and met whales.

They even met the next day's waterspout on a sunny day and enjoyed the generous gift of this extreme weather. Thousands of kilograms of big fish fell from the sky like a rainstorm, damaged two sails, and the catch spread all over the deck.

Now America is ahead, and the new continent that has fascinated the whole Europe for hundreds of years is ahead!

Turn due west!

The scarred golden deer hung out the tricolor Viola flag of the chamber of Commerce, approached Barbados under the guidance of buoys, and sailed close to the beautiful bashiba beach on the East Bank of the island along the coastline.

Barbados has a complex terrain.

It descends in a ladder shape to the West and drops sharply to the East and south into a cliff. The ground in the northeast is rugged, with steep valleys on both sides, a high-lying platform in the middle, and a low-lying beach along the coast.

This terrain makes its large ports concentrated in the northwest, facing the Caribbean. The only anchor wharf along the Atlantic coast is bashiba beach. It is also a shallow coral reef with a water depth of only a few meters, and there are long and dense reef areas near the shore.

With the ship type of Jinlu, it is impossible to anchor near such a beach. Her anchor location is at the floating island wharf, which extends all the way from the beach to the sea, with a length of more than 300 meters.

The ship anchored and anchored steadily, and Lorraine immediately assigned a task.

The sailors remained in the same group.

Karen took two groups to purchase some shortage of ship repair spare parts and two submachine boats. Among the islands in the Caribbean with complex environment, small and light submachine boats are indispensable every day.

The broken foremast cannot be repaired in Barbados.

This kind of overhaul requires a professional dock, which cannot be found in such a remote wharf as bashiba, and even Bridgetown does not necessarily have a suitable dock that can repair the golden deer. Lorraine wanted to make a thorough repair of the golden deer in the West Indies, but he had to wait until Kingston, Jamaica.

Wang Ye and Daniel also brought two groups. One group is responsible for replacing and replenishing the food and fresh water on board, and the other group is responsible for purchasing daily necessities and replenishing some drugs.

Haina, yacharin and the remaining two groups of sailors are responsible for staying behind. Lorraine takes Noah, Carmen and little pierce ashore to relax and enjoy the exotic scenery of the Caribbean Sea.

Barbados is a traditional colony of the kingdom of Great Britain.

In 1518, Spain became the first Europeans to land on the island in order to seek slaves working on sugar farms.

When they saw the shade of green trees and the continuous moss hanging on each tree, they named the island babado Island, which means the island with a beard.

However, the Spanish did not have much interest in the bearded island. They just took away the Indians on the island and left an empty island without anyone.

A hundred years later, in 1620, the British landed on the island for the second time and announced that it had become a British territory since then.

They developed the island, built sugar farms here, and transported a large number of black slaves from the African continent to serve as labor, grow sugar cane and refine sugar.

The plantation economy has been here for 160 years, and nothing has changed so far.

So Barbados specialty is sugar.

Bashiba town is a plantation town set in a flat valley.

Walking in the town, Lorraine saw a series of wooden conical buildings, lower columns and upper cones, suspended wooden platforms on the ground, and small skylights and thin chimneys on the roof.

Each of them is not big, and the use area is only about 40 or 50 square meters. They wrap the logs with palm leaves, and then tie them tightly with straw rope and mud to form a waterproof.

They like to open the door on the side close to the road, and then open windows on both sides of the door. It is simple and simple, without the fancy sculpture art and flashy strange structure popular in Europe.

The residents of this cone building are slaves of the plantation, and the main body is black. From the structure and number of houses, there are about two or three hundred households, no more than two thousand people.

Occasionally, some Caribbean Indians with yellow skin and strong features, wearing feathers and tusks around their neck, act as managers at the bottom and live with managed slaves.

White people live on the other side of town.

There is a carved black iron gate that divides the whole town into two. Looking through the grid, you can see towering cliffs and continuous grassland. On the grassland, there are a few European style small buildings and standard white walls and colored tiles, which look noble and lifeless.

Looking at all this, Lorraine suddenly had a strange feeling in her heart.

The iron gate is like the entrance to the prison. Inside are the owners of crime, and outside are the slaves of reform through labor.

He didn't know what the meaning of such a life was.

However, it seems that the native dogs in the plantation never understand the vastness of the ocean. Even if they can come here, they themselves represent them or their ancestors have crossed the ocean.

This is a generation gap.

In Europe, the thinking of maritime merchants and planters has always been separated. They are not in the same world, or even in the same dimension.

Walking and looking all the way, the town is full of vitality. Although there are not many vendors, there are a wide range of things to sell.

They mainly sell fruits, including figs in plantations, sugarcane, bananas, mangoes, coconuts on the beach, as well as currants, cherries and aloes produced in Barbados.

There are also some sea fish, seabirds and wild animals, which are specialties on the island. They are cheap and beautiful. It can be seen that the slaves on the island at least have good food.

Jewelry made of coral is also a specialty here.

All kinds of native rough workers have a unique flavor. They are simply connected with rotten silver and fishing line. Whether it is African style or Indian style, they use their original ruggedness to send out fatal attraction in front of rich women.

Lorraine was glad he had brought Pierce.

He handed over the crazy ladies to pierce, didn't look at the little guy's sad eyes, and wandered alone with his arm on his pillow.

Sextant

He desperately needed the sextant and the chart of the Caribbean, and he didn't want to wait any longer.

The question is, where are these things?