Head southwest.

It's still winter and early spring, but as the latitude drops, the temperature at sea is already rising.

The temperature of more than 20 degrees is pleasant, and the sea breeze is light, not stuffy or dry.

The beauty of the weather greatly relieved the sailors' increasingly uncontrollable irritability, and Lorraine breathed a sigh of relief, and at last had the leisure to carefully proofread the charts.

Speaking of which, he actually does things that are more accurate and positioned every day, and without a full-time navigator, he is the only guarantee that the deer will not get lost in the sea.

However, on the day of the thunderstorm, the ship's octet was damaged, and it could only barely maintain a rough accuracy to ensure the accuracy of the course.

As for where you are and how far you are from your destination, even through a lot of mapping and calculations, this information is no longer available.

Lorraine counted on deck for a whole morning, identifying only a few things.

First, the Golden Deer is on the right track.

Second, it's not far from the Caribbean Sea, and as for how far it is, it's probably between 111 kilometers and 555 kilometers, which is a span of five latitudes.

The error was so large that Lorraine regretted not buying the latest sextant before setting sail.

If you have a sextant in your hand......

"Discover the island!" He was regretting it when a sudden exhilarating shout came from the location of the lookout.

Lorraine looked up abruptly and looked up at the mast in a daze: "Here?" Island? ”

"Captain, at eleven o'clock, twenty-two kilometers away, confirmed, it's really an island!"

"Even the minimum value is wrong?"

Lorraine didn't care about anything else, threw away the octant, rushed up to the mainmast, snatched the lookout's monocular, and looked in the direction of the island.

The telescope shows a tropical island full of greenery.

The twisting coastline, the shining silver sand, the clear blue sea.

Flocks of white pelicans swim and fly on the sea, and the island is covered with bright goldenrods, orange-red corollas dotting the golden edges, like flaming butterflies perched on the branches of green trees.

The trees here are so peculiar, with slender branches dangling along the coastline and green moss on the branches, that, at first glance, they look like the lips of an island with a thick beard.

"White pelicans, goldenrods, strange islands with green beards...... "Lorraine muttered, "that's Barbados." The easternmost point of the Caribbean Sea, Barbados in the Lesser Antilles. ”

He reached out and grabbed the cable, jumped off the high lookout, and landed on the deck.

"Gentlemen, Barbados! We...... It's a success! ”

"Hooray!"

……

After forty-two days, Lorraine and his Golden Deer sailed from Southampton to the Middle Ridge at high latitudes, and then to the southwest along the Middle Ridge, across the Atlantic, to Barbados, completing his first ocean-going voyage as a leader.

Along the way, they dodged icebergs, experienced thunderstorms, adopted puffins and encountered schools of whales.

They even encountered a waterspout on a clear day, and enjoyed the bounty of extreme weather, when thousands of pounds of fish rained down from the sky, breaking two sails and spilling the catch all over the deck.

Now the Americas are ahead, and the whole of Europe is crazy for hundreds of years, and a new continent is ahead!

Turn due west!

Flying the Chamber of Commerce's pansy flag, the scarred Golden Deer approached Barbados under the guidance of the buoy, and then sailed along the coastline to the beautiful beach of Bahiba on the east coast of the island.

Barbados is a complex topography.

It descends in a stepped manner to the west, and then steeply descends into cliffs to the east and south, and the ground in the northeast is rugged with steep valleys on both sides, with higher plateaus in the middle and low-lying sandy beaches along the coast.

This topography means that its large harbor is concentrated in the northwest, facing the Caribbean, and the only anchor dock on the Atlantic coast is Bahiba Beach, which is also a shallow coral reef with a depth of only a few meters, and a long area of dense reef near the shore.

It is impossible for the Golden Deer to anchor close to such a beach, and her anchorage site is at the floating island pier, which stretches from the beach all the way into the sea, with a length of more than 300 meters.

The ship stopped, anchored steadily, and Lorraine immediately dispatched the task.

The grouping of sailors remained the same.

Karen took two groups of people to purchase some spare parts for ship repair, which were in short supply, and also to buy two assault boats. In the complex environment of the Caribbean archipelago, small and lightweight assault boats are indispensable every day.

The broken foremast could not have been repaired in Barbados.

This kind of overhaul requires a professional dockyard, which is not possible in an out-of-the-way dock like Bahiba, and even Bridgetown does not necessarily have a suitable dock capable of repairing the Golden Deer. Lorraine wanted to carry out a complete overhaul of the Golden Deer in the West Indies, but had to wait until Kingston, Jamaica.

Wang Ye and Daniel also brought two groups of people, one of which was responsible for replacing and replenishing the food and fresh water on the ship, and the other group was responsible for buying daily necessities and also needed to replenish some medicines.

Henna, Acharin, and the remaining two sailors stayed behind, while Lorraine took Noah, Carmen, and Pierce Jr. ashore to relax and enjoy the exotic scenery of the Caribbean.

Barbados is a traditional colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

In 1518, Spain became the first Europeans to land on the island as slaves seeking to work on sugar farms.

When they saw that the trees were green and there were wisps of moss hanging from each tree, they named the island Barbado, which means island with a beard.

However, the Spaniards did not have much interest in this bearded island, and only abducted the Indians on the island, leaving an empty island with no people.

A hundred years later, in 1620, the second group of English landed on the island and declared it to be a British crown from now on.

It was they who developed the island, built sugar farms here, and brought in large numbers of black slaves from the African continent to work as laborers, grow sugar cane, and smelt sugar.

The plantation economy lasted here for 160 years and has not changed much to this day.

So Barbados' specialty is granulated sugar.

The town of Bahiba is a plantation town set in a flat valley.

Walking through the town, Lorraine saw a series of wooden cones, with lower pillars and upper cones, suspended wooden terraces on the ground, and small skylights and thin chimneys on the roof.

Each of them is not large, the usable area is only about forty or fifty square meters, wrapped in palm leaves, and then tightened with straw rope and mud, paste, forming a waterproof.

They like to open the door on the side of the road and open the windows on both sides of the door, simple and unpretentious, without the bells and whistles of European sculpture and flashy and strange structures.

The inhabitants of such cones were slaves of the plantations, the main body was black, and judging by the construction and number of houses, there were about two or three hundred households, no more than two thousand.

Occasionally, there were yellow-skinned Caribbean Indians with hard features, wearing feathers and tusks around their necks, acting as low-level administrators, living with slaves under management.

Whites live on the other side of town.

There is a carved black iron gate that divides the whole town into two, and looking through the grille, you can see the towering mountain cliffs, the continuous grass, and a few small European-style buildings scattered on the grass, and the standard white walls and colored tiles, which look noble and lifeless.

Looking at all this, Lorraine suddenly had a strange feeling in her heart.

The iron gate is like the entrance to the prison house, where the masters of crime are locked up, and the slaves who are re-educated through labor are housed outside.

He didn't know what the point of such a life was.

But then again, the dogs on the plantation never seem to understand the vastness of the ocean, even if they were able to come here, it means that they or their ancestors have crossed the ocean.

This is the generation gap.

In Europe, the minds of maritime merchants and plantation owners have always been separated, they are not in the same world, or even in the same dimension.

Along the way, all the way, the town is full of life, although there are not many vendors, there are a lot of things for sale.

They mainly sell fruits, including figs from the plantation, sugar cane, bananas, mangoes, coconuts from the beach, and gooseberries, cherries and aloe vera from Barbados.

There are also some sea fish and seabirds and wild beasts that are special products of the island, which are cheap and cheap, which shows that the slaves on the island are at least well fed.

Jewelry made of coral is also a specialty of the area.

The variety of local rough work has a unique flavor, and it is simply connected with rotten silver and fishing line, whether it is African style or Indian style, with its own primitive roughness and unscrupulous unscrupulous exudation of fatal attraction in front of rich ladies.

Lorraine couldn't help but be glad she had brought Pierce with her.

He handed over the mad ladies to Pierce, and without looking at the little one's complaining eyes, he wandered alone with his arms on his pillow.

Sextant......

He desperately needed sextants and Caribbean charts, and he didn't want to wait any longer.

The question is, where are these things?