Having said this for a long time, what does the Drake Strait have to do with Cape Horn? Of course there is, there must be!

Cape Horn is right in the middle of the Drake Passage, and if the Drake Passage is a devil's passage, Cape Horn is a devil's trap on this passage. The devils thought that the storms, currents, and ice floes in this passage were not enough, so they made a small island to make it more difficult for the sailors to get through.

Anyway, after Drake returned to England, he immediately trembled, gaining fame and fortune, so he had nothing to do and began to brag about X play, especially about how he fought the storm. Inadvertently, he revealed that there was an unknown sea area south of the Strait of Magellan, and at this time he didn't know that that sea area was a strait, let alone the name of Drake Passage.

Decades later, Captain Drake is dead, but his story is still widely circulated, some people tell the story, and some people really take it seriously. A Dutch captain, who is said to be a shareholder of the Dutch East India Company, is estimated to be the same as Hong Tao, earning enough money, and always wanting to play some other tricks. He also happened to hear about Captain Drake, so he asked his son Jacoble Maire, in two galleons, to go to Australia to get another Australian company like the East India Company, and to open a new route, that is, to find the new sea in Captain Drake's story.

JacobleMaire's two ships, one called Eendracht and the other Hoorn. After departing from Australia, the Hoorn finally reached the coast of Chile, but the Hoorn ran aground and sank. Only one ship, the Eendracht, continued southward and reached Tierra del Fuego in January 1616.

These days after the arrival of the Eendracht. Those devils in the strait happened to have drunk too much, and they didn't toss. As a result, the wind on the sea surface is smaller, and the waves are smaller, giving Jacoble Maire plenty of opportunities to explore. So he directed his ship around the neighborhood, and finally found several more small islands (the Hermet Islands) in the waters south of the Strait of Magellan, so he named the southernmost island KaapHoorn.

Kaap means headland in Dutch, and Hoorn is his hometown, the headquarters of the East India Company, and the name of the sunken sailing ship. So the island became a headland because of the word Kaap, and whatever it is called, this is the real southernmost point of the South American continent.

Why is Cape Horn said to be an accomplice in the Devil's Strait? There is also a small island called FalseCapeHorn, which translates into Chinese as False CapeHorn. In the case of bad weather with high winds and rough seas and poor visibility, it looks exactly like Cape Horn from the sea, and ships coming from the west can easily mistake this false Cape Horn for Cape Horn, and then start to turn the rudder and eventually break headlong into the archipelago. The waters are full of reefs and strong westerly winds, making it difficult for sailboats to turn around and escape. The ultimate fate is to watch his ship be blown headfirst against the reef by the strong winds, and then torn apart by the wind and the sea wolf.

True and false Cape Heen, Devil's Strait, strong winds, huge waves, ice floes, coupled with Hong Tao's two-knife driving skills, the final result is that the chance of successful crossing is very small. That's why those insurance companies are reluctant to insure photographers, who wants to do things that are 100% going to lose money!

Hong Tao's talk about the free drinking in the Liverpool pub in England is also true, from the 17th century. The Cape Horn route is a name that people love and hate, as long as you follow the lì to guò from here. That means that the goods on board will definitely be sold at a high price when they arrive at the port, and everyone on the ship will get rich. Because all the people who walk here are galleons carrying supplies that are in high demand. But if you don't pass, you won't even have a chance to escape, the sea here is cold and biting, and no one will save you for half an hour, so you will freeze directly.

Any Spanish sailor who made a voyage to Cape Horn was allowed to pee upwind of the ship and hang a gold ring on his left ear, while the custom of English sailors was that a blue five-pointed star was tattooed on his left ear and a blue five-pointed star was tattooed in his right ear by crossing Guò more than five times. As long as you have two blue five-pointed stars on your ears, then you can go to the seaman's pub after you come ashore in Liverpool, and you will drink for free, which is a tribute to your bravery.

"Rada, do you think it's better for me to stab my left ear first, or my right ear, and you two plan to stab the left or right ear?" Hong Tao was still thinking about this question until lunch.

"I won't prick my ears......" Carol said a little down, as she watched the workers overhaul the ship at the dockyard, only to run into an American technician, talk for a while, and then develop a sense of fear of crossing Cape Horn. The American told her a lot about the shipwreck, and laughed at Hong Tao that he had lived enough, and planned to drag Carroll to his death.

"I can stab anywhere, do you think we can go over?" Rada listened to Carol's relay, and his heart beat a little drum.

"This kind of affection between you two is not right, you are sure to be afraid, how can you not be afraid? It is to overcome what you are afraid of! When we cross Cape Horn, we look back and see that there is nothing to be afraid of, it is all people who scare themselves. Of course, I won't force you to go on an adventure with me, and now I'll give you a chance to opt out, and I'll still help you buy a ticket home, and I'll invalidate the original signed document. Hong Tao himself actually doesn't have a back, but he can deceive himself without thinking carefully about those dangers, as long as the ship arrives there, it will be too late to regret it, and he will go over as soon as he closes his eyes. But Carol and Rada obviously don't have this ability, and Hong Tao doesn't want to drag someone he doesn't hate to die.

“…… Forget it, I've been out with you for two months, and I'm still feeling good, and if I go back to that camp again, a few days will drive me crazy...... Crazy and stupid, I have to choose one, let's be a fool, it's enough to have you a madman on board. Carol is conflicted now, knowing that there is danger ahead, but she is reluctant to live this free and easy life.

Eat every day when you want, sleep when you want, and find Hong Tao to linger if necessary, Carol is still very satisfied with Hong Tao in this regard. You can think about nothing on the boat, fishing, swimming, blowing the sea breeze, and basking in the sun are all there is to life, and you don't realize what day tomorrow is or what bills you need to pay tomorrow. With the big money of Hongtao, every time you go to a strange city, you can enjoy the local customs and customs, and every day is different, which is called enjoying life.

"I'd better follow you...... I also have nowhere to go, do you know why I don't get seasick? It's not just that I'm trained to fly, but when I first came to Canada, I was dizzy in a container for more than a month, and I'm used to it. These days are things that I couldn't have dreamed of before, and I'd like to be with you. My grandmother once told me that we gypsies are born wanderers, and if we can die in wandering, it is the best destination. "Rada is different from other women, her experience should be the most bitter, and many things are not clear to Hong Tao. Don't look at her looks like an elf, but her personality is more like a tough dwarf, coupled with the gypsy blood in her body, when she is really awakened, she is no less crazy than Hong Tao.

Having solved the mental problems of the two sailors, the captain Hong Tao began to think about how to spend the precious two days on shore. Although he had just said it so lightly, it was really possible that these two days would be the last two days he spent on shore. Now Hong Tao understands why those sailors in the sailing era drank and gambled as soon as they went ashore, this kind of mood is usually not experienced by anyone, and only when he is in his own state can he have the opportunity to figure it out.

Since so many sailors and captains have no more reasonable way to solve this contradictory feeling of despair and hope, then Hong Tao is not a god, and he can't solve it if others can't solve it. So he, like the sailors and captains, began to enter the last crazy moments, and it was a bit of a sip to count, a cigarette to be a sip, a smoking, and a slept one.

Puerto Montt is the largest city in southern Chile, an important commercial port and tourist city, and unlike other cities in Chile, there are many white Europeans or Indo-European people, and they tend to dress more Europeanly, and the lingua franca between them is not Spanish but German.

Chile and Argentina are both places where German immigrants live, and the city of Puerto Montt was originally reclaimed by German immigrants, so there are a large number of descendants of German immigrants living here. There are more immigrants in Germany, and there is an advantage that they are more serious about everything, which is particularly lacking in all South American countries, and it is no wonder that the economic situation of this port of Montt is significantly better than that of other cities, and even the cityscape is similar to that of a small European town.

However, there are also disadvantages to the large number of immigrants in Germany, one is that the variety of meals is very small, and the other is that the entertainment industry is not very developed. Germans produce scientists, musicians, poets, thinkers, politicians, sports stars, and the only ones who don't come out are entertainment industry stars.

This good and bad is also a headache for Hong Tao, his sailboat is maintained in a small shipyard owned by German immigrants, he is very relieved to see the working attitude and posture of those workers, but it is even more difficult for him to find a restaurant with a unique flavor, there are sausages and big elbows everywhere, this thing is okay to eat in two bites, and Hong Tao is really tired of eating food. What disappointed him the most was that the last madness of his plan didn't seem to be crazy, except for drinking, playing cards, and watching football games, there was no entertainment in the bar here, and even a hostess was the master who could put twenty pounds of noodles in a bag that could not be bent as soon as he stretched out his arm, and he couldn't hook it up at all......!