Chapter 1698： "Wild animals" on Haiti Island

In fact, cryolite has mineral deposits in nature, but very few. Moreover, it appears that cryolite deposits are mainly located on Greenland within the Arctic Circle.

However, there are few cryolites in nature, which are simply not enough. Therefore, cryolite was artificially synthesized in later generations and used in the electrolytic aluminum industry. But this professionalism is too strong, at least, Marin, a liberal arts student, does not understand. And Greenland is so big, he is unlikely to know where the cryolite mine is. The most important thing is that he does not know what the cryolite looks like ...

Therefore, he knew that the bauxite resources on Haiti and Jamaica were very rich, but he did not have the means to develop them. A cryolite will make him kneel. Otherwise, you can get some aluminum alloy armor, how many bunkers?

But in the absence of cryolite, Marin can only have one way to use those bauxites-to make refractory bricks, used in smelting furnaces for steel and nonferrous metals ...

However, the demand for metals is very low, iron smelting furnaces and metallurgical furnaces are few, and the required refractory bricks are also limited. Therefore, the bauxite in Europe is enough, and there is no need to import bauxite from the Caribbean.

But gold, silver, copper and nickel mines are still very important. Gold and silver can't be said that they can be used as money. The price of copper is currently very expensive, and there seems to be no famous copper mine on Haiti Island, it is better not to develop. But nickel mines seem to be easier to develop because the nickel mines in Dominica are also laterite nickel mines. At that time, as long as you observe the color and study the red clay, you can find the nickel ore.

Because he wanted to develop Haiti, Marin sent people to find people who had been to Haiti. Coincidentally, a student named Columbus of Columbus, entrusted by Columbus last year, ran to Santo Domingo, Haiti, to visit the place where Columbus made his fortune.

I heard that Captain McCas visited Santo Domingo last year, and Marin called him immediately to understand the situation ...

McCas was in his thirties, and when he was young and powerful, he was also one of Columbus's proud disciples. Last year McCas was ordered to ship nickel metal on the Cuban island. He was entrusted by Columbus to visit the place where the teacher had fought.

Knowing that Marin was interested there, McCas carefully introduced Santo Domingo's situation ...

Santo Domingo, the first colonial city established by the Spanish colonists in the Americas, has been abandoned for more than ten years. The once tall and sturdy castle is now almost in ruins.

The main structure of the castle wall is no problem, but the wooden structure in the castle has been demolished by the locals ...

Including the gate, there are all kinds of wooden furniture, even windows and walls, all of which were taken down by the locals to be used as wood. McCas saw with his own eyes that in the houses of indigenous villages near Santo Domingo, there was a lot of wood used by Spanish colonists in the castle ...

Why did you ask McCas to see the source of the wood? Very simple, there is paint on the wood!

The indigenous people on the island of Haiti do not know how to use paint. Only in the castle built by the Spanish colonists, there will be paint. Therefore, those woods with different colors of paint must have been removed from the castle by local indigenous people.

As for why the local indigenous people do not live in the castle? Because the castle is too far from their village ...

These indigenous people mainly depend on the cultivation of cassava and sweet potatoes, and their natural habitat is as close as possible to their farmland. The castle is too close to the sea and a little far from their farmland. Therefore, the indigenous people did live in the castle for some time after the Spanish evacuated. However, it was later found to be inconvenient to work on the ground, too far away, so he moved back to the village. Before leaving, they removed all the wood that could be removed ...

McCas estimated that, as long as there was enough wood, repairing Santo Domingo was still easy. After all, the main structure like the stone wall has not been destroyed.

Moreover, he also told a news that made Marin stunned-in the mountain forest near Santo Domingo, there were many horses, cattle, sheep and pigs left by the Spanish colonists ...

However, more than ten years after the Spaniards left, these horses, cattle, sheep and pigs were reduced to wild animals and huddled in the forest. Moreover, it is reduced to the prey of the indigenous people.

Among them, the best "mixed" is the pig. Due to their strong reproductive capabilities, their populations have expanded rapidly, and they have become a local leader. Now, they can no longer count as domestic pigs, but as wild boars.

The domestic pig breeds brought by the Spaniards are actually closer to wild boars. They are small and grow slowly. Moreover, only a few are born.

Even so, the strong reproductive ability of giving birth to several babies has crushed horses, cattle and sheep. Therefore, now in the forests near Santo Domingo, the most common is this "wild boar".

The localized pigs don't dare to provoke such wild pigs. Because the wild boar is crazy, and most people can't stop it. Although he has no fangs, he can charge up and have no problem in slamming people. In particular, wild boars also like to form groups ...

Then, horses and cattle were okay. The horses left by the Spaniards are Andalusian horses. Although the fertility rate is not high, the horse can run fast. When the local indigenous people went to the mountains to hunt, the horses ran out of legs when they heard the wind, so the safety was okay.

As for cattle, the cattle brought by the Spaniards are longhorns. This is a kind of cattle that Columbus brought from the Spanish coastal area. The horns are very long, but they are very gentle. Later, the famous Texas longhorn was the descendant of this longhorn.

In fact, this kind of cow is very timid, and his temperament is not fierce. But the indigenous people saw such long horns, and they were a little guilty, so they did not dare to provoke ...

So, it ’s only the sheep who are unlucky ...

Because it is a tropical rain forest ~ www.novelhall.com ~ The sheep brought by the Spanish colonists is not the famous Merino sheep, but an unknown goat breed along the coast. After all, goats are more adapted to the climate of tropical rainforests than sheep with thick wool.

The indigenous people did not dare to provoke wild boars, horses, or long-horned cattle. They could only deal with these gentle sheep. Therefore, the Spanish goats who fled into the wild and became wild sheep became the best prey for the local indigenous people.

According to what McCas and his team of sailors saw, the mountain forest near the local village is estimated to have at least a few hundred horses, thousands of longhorn cattle, thousands of wild domestic pigs, and hundreds of goats ...

Yes, there are the fewest goats, mainly because they are hunted more by locals. After all, they are easy to bully ...

Well, it seems that after re-occupying Santo Domingo, the animals no longer have to look for them, just send troops to capture them in the nearby mountains and forests.

Both horses and cattle are easy to say, as long as they use the legendary set of horse poles. Goats are directly surrounded by hands and catches, only wild domesticated pigs are a bit troublesome.

In the end, Marin made up his mind to deal with the trap. If you can acclimate, you can acclimate. If you ca n’t acclimate, you can directly use a musket to kill you.