Chapter 1858: The return of the Amazon expedition
After making a decision, Marin immediately started to arrange the matter. However, he only told Caesar about using locals to take care of syphilis patients. Marin didn't tell him about arranging the death row to show the miserable situation and cutting his tongue. Pay attention to the degree of training successors. At such a young age, you can show some strategies, but it is best not to show things that are too terrible, so as not to distort the children ...
The father-in-law told Marin that because representatives of several German princes had not yet arrived in Rome, Marin had enough time to arrange it in advance.
Therefore, Marin directly ordered to go to the prison to find a few death row prisoners who could not write, and escorted them to the speedboat using the upper edge slant sail. This three-masted slender speedboat is a bit like a flying shear boat, but it is only a little "fat". It is specially used by the Beihai State to convey important news and is rarely used.
North-south sailing ships rarely lie downwind, so a modern schooner, such as a sloping sail on the upper edge, is very suitable for north-south sailing. After arriving in Haiti, the gang directly arranged for the death row to contract the disease. After some time, the investigation team had almost arrived, and it happened that they saw their miserable side. It is best to have someone die in the presence of the investigation team. In this way, it is scary enough ...
In short, we must show the distinguished members of the investigation team to show the terrible disease of the lower American colonies and make them a little scared. After returning, their knowledge. Will become an important supporting evidence that Marin did not lie ...
Uh ...
In fact, instead of waiting for the members of the gang of investigators to come back to the Americas, someone helped Marin testify. Because, the Amazon expedition is back ...
Just the year before, that is, in 1514, after the first batch of Amazon expeditions came back, they published the popular book "Rushing Out of Amazon". Later, Marin had an idea-decided to recruit people from other countries, go to Brazil to explore the Amazon Basin, let them feel the horror of the Amazon jungle, and then come back to say ... Of course, nominally to catch rare beasts ...
Later, Marin selected adventurers to carry out the plan, and sent people to Portugal, Spain and France to recruit adventurers to set off. In the end, almost four or five hundred people from these three countries participated in the adventure team.
Shortly after Marin sent the Clipper to inform Haiti, the adventure team also returned ...
They returned from the base on the island of Tobago. Before that, there were about 497 adventurers. However, only 319 survived. Moreover, many of the 319 people who survived were crippled by beasts in the Amazon jungle. Some had their legs bitten by crocodiles, some had their arms broken by jaguar, some had lost their consciousness after being bitten by a poisonous snake because they were not treated in time, and others were crippled by attacks by cannibals ... There are less than 200 people who have to come back in full tail, not even half of the original total ...
However, they are lucky to be able to come back alive. Because, the 178 people with bad luck were permanently sleeping in the terrifying Amazon jungle, either died of crocodiles, poisonous snakes and jaguars, or were eaten by piranhas, and were taken away by the cannibals and roasted. food……
In short, this returning team is miserable. However, they also recovered 50 crocodiles, 12 jaguars, many unknown giant snakes, more than 40 piranhas, and 20 cannibals ...
The fleet was docked in Lisbon for a long time, and also went ashore to display the captured animals and caused a huge sensation.
Fortunately, Marin had arranged for a long time to buy a large area of land in Lisbon and built a huge glass greenhouse, so as not to freeze these animals from tropical regions. Otherwise, the temperature of this spring may freeze these tropical creatures.
In Lisbon, in this glass greenhouse called the "Tropical Zoo", the leader of the expedition, East, threw a bought pig into the pool where more than 40 piranhas were in front of everyone. Then, there was a violent turbulence between the water, and the domestic pigs that were just fluttering, were directly divided by more than 40 hungry piranhas, and the bone racks were shredded, showing how fierce the robbing was. And the water surface was quickly stained red ...
This scene terrified many Portuguese noble ladies who were onlookers, they made a pig-like scream, and those adventurers who came back alive laughed with joy.
Subsequently, more than 50 surviving Portuguese adventurers began to brag about their adventures in the Amazon jungle in Lisbon taverns. Because they talk so horrible and exciting, they don't need to pay for their own alcohol, as long as they stop and say that they are thirsty, someone will pay them for a refill.
"Did you see it? The little thumb and ring finger on my left hand were bitten by a suddenly appearing jaguar during a jungle expedition. The big guy finally killed the jaguar. , Pity my two fingers, but they have been chewed, and can no longer be connected ... "The name is Neo, a bankrupt businessman in Lisbon. Because he owed a lot of money and couldn't make it, he took his heart and went to join the Amazon expedition. Because the commission given by the expedition is high, one shilling per day.
Although he broke **** and came back, he finally guaranteed most of his working ability. Moreover, this time the bounty is enough for him to pay off the debt, and he can still have a balance and do a small business.
He was lucky, because, after breaking two fingers, he rested in the temporary base for more than ten days, and that ten days was exactly when the entire expedition encountered the most danger. In those dozen days, the expedition killed 59 people, accounting for one-third of the total loss ... not counting the bad luck who lacked arms and legs ...
At this time, another member of the expedition happened to enter the tavern. This expedition member was unlucky because his left leg was bitten off by a crocodile ...
"Hey, Jose, you are here too! Look, this is my companion ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Unlucky Jose, he was bitten off by a crocodile on his left leg during an expedition. He snatched it back from the crocodile ... "
People surrounded Jose, looked at the bitten left leg, and burst into wonder ...
"Don't talk about those, gentlemen, who asked me to have a drink, just right, I also share with you the inner activity when I was bitten by the crocodile's left leg ..."
"Okay, we're invited, bartender, serve Mr. Jose!"
After drinking a big sip of beer, Jose smiled and said:
"I told you that when my left leg was bitten by a crocodile, I was so frightened at the time that I could n’t even think, and I could n’t say anything. But then the left leg came to‘ ka ’because of the crocodile bite. There was a loud sound, and then a huge pain came—I know, my left leg was over. But this also grasped the awakening from the state of complete blindness. I began to struggle and started calling for help ... The partners used a spear Poke the crocodile hard, but unfortunately the crocodile's skin is too thick, and it has no effect. Knowing that Anders poked the crocodile's eyes with his spear, he forced the terrible crocodile ... "
"Oh-" everyone exclaimed incomparably ...
The same story was staged in a dozen pubs in Lisbon. Because these more than 50 Portuguese explorers have already received bounty and are ready to go home. Before going home, they went to the tavern to tell their adventure stories and cheated a lot of wine ...
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