0066 Macaw
This massive vampire bat attack cost the expedition a lot of money.
Four people fell into the water, and seven others were injured to varying degrees without falling into the water, including Yacharin.
Whether or not they fell into the water seems to have become the criterion for judging the severity of the injury.
Because people who did not fall into the water were generally not seriously injured, and those who fell into the water were ......
Two of the four died of blood loss, and the other two were also fished up with more air in and less gas.
The main reason why the injuries are so tragic is that the saliva of vampire bats contains hemolysin.
This special enzyme kills platelets in large quantities, preventing blood from clotting and making it easier to suck.
Their alienated fangs and foraging habits are also adept at tearing large wounds near blood vessels, further speeding up the flow of blood.
The two were combined, and everyone knew that even if Lorraine immediately aborted the expedition and sent them back to the Butterfly Flower, they would not survive tonight.
With their consent, Lorraine ordered their lives to be ended, relics were collected, and the bodies sank into the sea to the destination of every sailor.
This funeral cast a shadow on everyone's hearts, and the procession lost its original sporadic laughter, and rowed forward in silence and stability for more than half an hour, and finally heard the sound of waves crashing on the shore.
The shore waves represent that they have come to the end of the waterway.
"Reel in the oars!" Lorraine's voice echoed through the deep and dark waterways, stirring up echoes and reaching everyone's ears.
Lorraine stood up, stepped on the rickety plank, walked straight to the bow, raised the torch and shook it a few times at the tall black shadow in front of her.
"It's ...... Sailing boat? ”
They found a Brig galleon at the end of the waterway......
Standard two-masted fully equipped crosssail frigate with a length of 30 meters, a width of 8 meters, and a broadside height of 5.5 meters.
Her twin gun doors were shut, anchored at the end of the undulating, dark waterway, like a silent beast, crouching at the entrance to hell.
This left Lorraine without thinking for a moment.
The standard sailing ship is a fashion that emerged after the maturity of the warship classification system, and its origin can only be traced back to the early to mid-17th century, when the Anglo-Dutch war for maritime supremacy lasted for several years, and its history is not very long.
At that time, the British and Dutch warships Chibo went into battle and plundered the opponent's merchant ships in the vast sea, hoping to cut off the opponent's trade routes.
Merchant ships could only maintain trade under the escort of warships.
In order to adapt to the speed and formation of fully equipped sail warships, the merchants were forced to abandon the original style of shipbuilding with measured materials, and quickly formed a new standard of shipbuilding for offshore merchant ships to be built casually and ocean-going merchant ships to be as unified as possible.
That's when the term "standard size" came to be.
A modern Brig frigate suddenly appeared in a 9th-century treasure cave, and it was all out of the gunhole, looking empty......
Lorraine couldn't help but lick her lips.
"Broadside. Noah and I boarded the ship first, Henna was the last to be on board, and Acharin was in charge of the sailors. ”
He ordered softly.
The two dinghys were close together, and the four sailors jumped to the front boat, while Noah and Henna switched to the rear boat.
They approached cautiously from the port side and threw the hooks.
Lorraine was the first to board the ship from the port side, drew his knife with a thud, and raised his torch aloft.
After a while, Noah also boarded from the starboard side, and the two of them guarded each other in front and back, probing the cabin as fast as they could, but they didn't find a single figure.
Everything was neatly tucked away, the anchor chains were rusted, and the four-, six- and nine-pound cannons were wrapped in tarpaulins and tucked away in the gun compartment.
There are no people, no living, no dead, no skeletons.
Lorraine found a privateering permit in the bulkhead of the captain's room, issued by the Kingdom of Ireland in 1659, granting John Brown. Privateer permission from Captain Naspert.
All mysteries are solved......
Lorraine returned to deck with Noah and signaled to both sides.
The sailors, led by seamen, boarded the board and gathered around Lorraine, waiting for orders.
Lorraine's voice sounded particularly deep: "Search the whole ship carefully. This is the Macaw, John. Naspert's missing flagship, the Macaw, ......"
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The unmanned cabin is naturally easy to search, not to mention the fact that the sailors who participated in the expedition were the best of the Lorraine ships.
The condition of the ship and the various discoveries converged in front of Lorraine.
The ship was indeed the Irish-flagged expedition ship HMS Macaw, a standard Brig, fully mounted brig sail, which had disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean a hundred years ago.
Her ships are expensive military ones, 100-year-old oak.
The cave is a strange environment with high ammonia, which is corrosive to wood, but strangely enough, even after hundreds of years of unrepaired, the ship's timber and keel are well preserved.
However, her sails, ropes and glue were completely weathered, and she needed to go through tedious and meticulous care to sail the ocean again.
In addition, the 28 guns were in good condition, most of them small-caliber guns that had prevailed a hundred years ago, with the main battle being nine and six pounders, and the main deck and bow guns even the four-pounder, which had long been obsolete.
The four anchors were completely destroyed, the winches and chains were rusty, and the only way to get the anchors out of the boat was to get rid of them.
Lorraine was almost certain that the Macaw's crew had left the ship in full preparation.
Because each compartment is neatly organized, important items such as nautical charts, captain's diary, octagram and nautical compass are wrapped in tarpaulins and carefully stored.
The sailors also found about 18 pounds worth of gold, silver and copper, which Lorraine did not ask for a penny and gave it directly to the sailors of the expedition.
They also discovered an enclosed seaman's cabin belonging to the captain of the assault who had died during the voyage, and his weapons had been collected as relics, including two Dublin short muskets and a high-quality silver bayonet.
They became Acharin's first harvest, and Acharin smiled.
A hundred years of solitude, there are only so many things left on the ship, and Lorraine has made a lot of money.
First of all, the boat, Lorraine will definitely be able to tow it out of the hole, and whether it can be brought back to Southampton depends on whether Clen can restore her ability to sea navigation under the existing conditions.
Then there are the charts, which have a well-established high-latitude transatlantic route from Ireland to the West Indies, which opens up the New World to Lorraine.
The third is Nasburt's nautical diary.
Secret words aside, Lorraine saw in her diary a complete account of Hebasil's expedition.
Naspert and his crew landed on the island twice, not only exploring the island, but also seeing the ancient treasures of the caves.
He called the cave "a wizard who liked to give gold coins to sailors".
However, the wizard is not as friendly as he professes.
On the first landing, his ship rioted because of the unequal distribution of the spoils, and Nasbot was able to suppress the riot, killing many people and seriously wounding himself.
The Macaw, which had suffered a lot of losses, lost the ability to continue its exploration, and had to leave the island with a heart full of regret and scars, until two years later, when it revisited the same place.
This is where the diary comes to an abrupt end.
Naspert doesn't recount the results of the second expedition, but the Macaw, which has been lurking like a ghost in a sea cave for a hundred years, has revealed the results of the second expedition to Lorraine.
Annihilated......
Lorraine closed the diary, tied the tarpaulin tightly, and henna's emerald eyes looked at him, her gaze full of inquiry.
"From here there is direct access to the treasure ground, which is well preserved, dry and closed." Lorraine pondered for a moment and whispered to Henna, "There may be unknown and great risks on the way. Naspert went in with forty sailors, but none of them came out. ”