Chapter 1136: Arrive in Keelung

Marin is still familiar with Galapagos tortoises. After all, even in the 21st century with well-developed information, this giant tortoise is a very rare species and has attracted much attention.

Galapagos tortoises live in the Galapagos Islands near the equator. Due to the cold current in Peru, the island is relatively hot and dry. Therefore, the tortoise can adapt to the dry and hot living environment. Galapagos tortoises are large, but they are gentle herbivores. They mainly feed on cacti, grass, leaves, moss, lichens and berries on the Galapagos Islands. The only drawback is that it is not cold-resistant. After all, it is an animal near the equator. Another thing is that every day seems to be basking in the sun. Because it is a cold-blooded animal and needs to be basked to absorb heat.

These are all important points, and we must tell the Ming Dynasty officials to prevent the tortoise from being raised to death. By that time, credit will be gone.

For the proud ancient Chinese feudal dynasty, offering treasures is not as good as offering auspicious things. Because they are most concerned about face, not profit.

Soon, the fleet, led by the navigator, came to the northernmost island of the Galapagos Islands. Later generations seemed to be called Pinta. The Galapagos tortoise on Pinta Island is also a well-known branch of the Galapagos tortoise. The famous Galapagos tortoise "Lonely George" who was in the news in 2012 is a flat-tower Galapagos tortoise.

Of course, Marin doesn't care about the difference between subspecies of tortoises. Anyway, Galapagos tortoises are very large, and it is enough to pretend to be a black turtle. Sending it to the Ming Dynasty is definitely auspicious.

Know that in the palace, there are many statues similar to the Green Dragon, White Tiger, Suzaku and Xuanwu. Even in the palace city of the Tang Dynasty, there were Xuanwu Gate and Zhuque Street. As long as you take it to the Forbidden City, you can see the statue of the black turtle. Those ministers must have seen huge statues. The Galapagos turtle is so big that it is almost approaching the statue. It is difficult to think of it as auspicious ...

Uh ...

After arriving at Pinta Island, Marin immediately took a group of thugs and happily went to the island to catch the turtle. Soon, they saw the Galapagos tortoise slowly “hurried” on the island. This giant tortoise walks very slowly and is worthy of being a tortoise. They walked only two or three hundred meters per hour, and they didn't reach a mile.

Several turtles saw a group of people from Marlin coming up from afar, frightened to escape immediately. However, the speed of their escape was too slow, and the Marin group walked slowly, still catching up with these hastily escaping turtles, and easily caught them.

Then, with his men, Marin caught 15 Pintar Galapagos tortoises in one breath and took them to the ship, preparing to take Daming to present as auspicious things.

In fact, Marin originally planned to bring only 9 tortoises. Because the number 9 is auspicious. Especially the things dedicated to the emperor, the number 9 is the most popular. 9 black turtles, meaning "nine sky black turtles", are definitely auspicious among auspicious ones.

But Marin was afraid that these tortoises might die, so he grabbed a few more spares. At the end of the "Xin Rui", Marin will still offer 9. As for the extra ones, just stay on Taiwan Island.

After catching the turtle, Marin returned the fleet to the scheduled route and continued to sail westward. It is winter in January. Whether it is the Atlantic or the northern half of the Pacific, it is calm and there will be no major storms. Therefore, the voyage of the fleet is smooth and smooth.

When driving near the western boundary of the East Twelfth District after the later international date change line, Marin suddenly remembered that it looked like the position of the western border of the East Twelve District and the south of the east of the equator angle. Small island.

This small island, but covered with a thick layer of struvite, is a very good agricultural fertilizer. Because struvite stones are transformed by seabird feces. The feces already contain nitrogen, and the addition of Shanghai birds to eat fish makes the struvite rocks also contain phosphorus. At the same time, struvite also contains some potassium. Therefore, struvite is the only natural fertilizer in nature that contains nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizers. However, the content of potassium is slightly lower, only 23%, unlike nitrogen and phosphorus, the content exceeds 10%. Therefore, struvite is an excellent nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer.

Although remembering the existence of Nauru, Marin did not change the course to find Nauru this time, but planned to have a chance to send a fleet to this island in the future.

why? Because the location of Nauru is too bad. It is deep in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and transportation is very inconvenient. Digging guano stones in Nauru and transporting them back might be better than getting three kinds of fertilizers. After all, even the farthest Western Sahara apatite mine is not too far from the mainland.

Moreover, even on the island to be developed in the future, there is no need to go to Nauru to dig guano stones. Because there are abundant guano stones in Dongsha Island near Taiwan Island, there is no need to go to Nauru to dig guano stones in Nauru.

It ’s just that ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Nauru is also an important reserve for struvite in the future, and it still needs to be occupied first. Even if you don't use it temporarily, you can't cheap others. Therefore, Marin will send people to find the island, and then insert a flag to show that the island is its own. As for when the struvite on the island is mined, it depends. But Marin estimated that it was estimated that the struvite on Nauru Island would not be used for a long time.

However, Marin actually wrote Nauru's struvite mine in the "Traverser's Notes" left to Caesar as a future reserve resource. Maybe, it will be available one day ...

Subsequently, the fleet entered the island of Micronesia with dense islands and reefs. Here, the pilots are also more cautious. Because, if you are not careful, the ship will hit the reef. After all, there are volcanic islands and coral reefs here, and there are also many reefs. Some coral reefs are growing, and those that will soon emerge from the water are the most dangerous. Because, if you are not careful, the ship will run aground on it.

Therefore, these pilots who had experienced the previous route explorations all cheered up and avoided some dangerous areas according to the notes of the previous nautical notes, and passed the Micronesia islands with surprise.

Then, the fleet followed the North Pacific warm current to the east of the Philippine archipelago, then turned north, followed the "Kuroshio" flowing northward to Japan, and sailed towards the eastern coast of Taiwan Island. While passing the eastern coast of Taiwan Island, Marin also passed