1426. Barrels of Whale Oil (Thank you all for your continued support)

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The Arctic right whale spews out a V-shaped column of water, with strong water pressure, which can spew five or six meters high, like two fountains.

After one right whale spewed out a column of water, other right whales followed suit and began to spray water jets, one of which happened to be next to the Melon Princess, and the water could be splashed on the boat!

Winnie scattered the fish in batches, and the right whales were all pot-bellied men, and they had not yet eaten enough, and after finding no fish in the water, they leaned out, and this time not only snorkeled, but half of their heads sticked out.

"Wow, what a bunch of greedy guys." Winnie smiled, she waved her hand again and again, and shouted, "Goodbye, big guys, it's gone, there's no food, you're going to hunt for yourselves!" ”

The right whale was unable to stand upright in the water for too long, and then when it was tired and fell back into the water, the Melon Princess continued to drive north.

After driving for a while, the sea monster in the cab came out and said with a smile: "Judging from the fish finder, these guys are still following us." ”

Shaq exclaimed, "How is it possible, right whales swim very slowly, they can't keep up with our fishing boats!" ”

The sea monster shrugged and said, "Maybe they just had enough to eat and drink and burst out with great strength?" But they're following, don't believe you to go to the cab and look at it. ”

Qin Shiou also thought it was incredible, the right whale was swimming very slowly, and it couldn't keep up with the ship that was moving at a speed of forty or fifty kilometers per hour. So he guessed that the bodyguards in the water were too close.

Sure enough, Poseidon consciousness entered the water to take a look. The troll and the black overlord were swimming at an accelerated pace like the race, and he quickly controlled them. Orders were also given to the sea pythons behind them, allowing them to dive deep and swim outward.

The farther north the climate, the colder it gets, Qin Shiou used to be interested in blowing the sea breeze outside, teasing tigers, leopards, bears and wolves, but after entering the Labrador Sea, he lost this interest, and at most he basked in the sun outside at noon.

Usually free, Qin Shiou constantly released the consciousness of the sea god, and after entering the Red Bay in the Labrador Sea, a wreck more than 20 meters long appeared on the bottom of the sea.

Seeing this wreck, Qin Daguan was in high spirits. The ship was a three-masted sailing ship, and it was shaped like a large wooden ship commonly used in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with ramming horns and a family crest on the bow, a bit like a treasure ship.

But when he looked closer, he saw that there were four small wooden boats in the rotten and broken tail of the ship, so it should not be a treasure ship.

In order to prevent the crew from having different intentions and stealing or robbing the ship's treasure away, the treasure ship will not carry so many small boats, but the whaling ship operates like this.

Take a look inside the cabin. Qin Shiou was startled, and he saw several corpses, which were enclosed in the cabin because the Labrador sea area was cold all year round. There were few bacteria, and they did not decompose, maintaining a dehydrated appearance of a dried corpse. It looks terrifying.

There are many kinds of corpses on the bottom of the sea, and some of them will decompose. Some will swell due to seawater immersion, but the latter kind of corpse. If they don't decay, then as the cells die, they will dehydrate under the difference between the inner and outer density, and eventually this is what it will be.

The dehydrated corpses were the most terrifying thing Qin Shiou knew, because of the strong spasms of the muscles, the expressions of these corpses looked very hideous, and even the facial features were crowded together or unable to distinguish the facial features.

In the next cabin, he found two large boxes, which were tightly sealed, which made him look forward to whether there would be any treasures in them.

As a result, he stirred up the waves, and the rotten chest easily shattered, and all that fell out of it was white bones! And look at the appearance of the skull, this is clearly a human bone!

But this can't be said, Qin Shiou wondered, the corpse next door was dehydrated, how could the corpse in this box rot so thoroughly?

There was nothing to explore, and he continued to search, only to find a large number of large oak barrels piled up in the cabin, and smashed one of them to find a solidified grease-like object inside.

So he determined that the ship, which was a whaling ship, and that the grease was supposed to be whale oil.

Labrador was once an important base for Basque whaling, and it was in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that tens of thousands of right whales lived in the area, and it was then, after continuous exterminating culling, that the right whales were now endangered.

At the height of the late 16th century, during the whaling season, more than 2,000 whalers lived in the Red Bay area, producing 500,000 gallons of whale oil for profit.

At that time, whale oil was a valuable item that could be used for lighting, lubrication, and as an additive in medicines, soaps, and asphalt. Spiced whale oil, in the 16th century, was the favorite fuel of European aristocrats.

When the Basques caught whales in the Red Bay and refined fish oil, they sold it to Europe on a month-long ocean voyage, and that 55-gallon barrel of whale oil could cost as much as $10,000 today.

So for the Basques, the discovery of a right whale storage area in Labrador is tantamount to the discovery of gold.

But for Qin Daguan, this was useless, and after a careful search, he found that the only valuable thing in the ship was barrels of whale oil in the hold and a box found in the sealed hold.

This box was sealed by whale oil, so although he didn't know what was inside, Qin Shiou estimated that it should be well preserved.

He wanted to open it, but considering that the owner of the box had sealed it with whale oil, the contents were obviously afraid of water, so he called the troll and asked it to suck the box with the suction cup on its tentacles, and then come out of the water to see it later.

With the box, Qin Shiou left helplessly, whale oil has no value now, whether it is lighting or lubricating oil, whale oil has a better alternative.

In this way, he retracted his consciousness and sighed subconsciously, and Winnie next to him gave him a strange look and asked, "What happened?" You seem to be very depressed? ”

Qin Shiou said: "I have been at sea for too long, and I have not found a suitable catch, I will inevitably be frustrated." ”

After heading north to resupply at Port Burwell, we left the Labrador Sea and entered Baffin Island, one of Canada's coldest regions.

Pass through the Hall Peninsula on Baffin Island and enter the Davis Strait, across which Canada and Greenland can be seen in the distance.

When they arrived at this kind of place, the temperature also dropped below zero, and they scheduled to cross the Davis Strait to Ilulissat Glacier Bay, but when the fishing boat arrived at the port of Attu Island to prepare for supplies, Qin Shiou unexpectedly found that there were a large number of king crabs living in this area! (To be continued......)