For the Senegalese fur company, Marin still attaches great importance to it. Because, the rhinoceros skin provided there will be a necessary armor for the Marin army when they cross the mountains. After all, wearing heavy iron armor, don't think about going over the mountains.

To this end, after sending the first two ships, the second group of three ships soon arrived as well. The first two ships were mainly used to build harbors, dig ponds with gates, and deal with the problem of maggots. And the second batch of ships, which is directly related to the purchase of leather.

The three ships brought with them a group of craftsmen who worked with furs, as well as some materials for nitrate leather, such as miscanthus salt, alum, and salt.

The leather that has just been peeled off is very thick. This hides are covered with animal hair and have a lot of fat sticking to them. The outer hair is fine, but if the fat inside is not processed in time, it is easy to become a medium for microorganisms, causing the leather to rot, and the good skin will be rotten and become a waste skin.

So, as soon as the leather is removed, it has to be disposed of immediately, especially in tropical areas like Senegal. If you eat it, the intradermal fat will begin to rot.

But the locals lacked the skills to handle fur, as well as the materials involved, even common tools such as knives. Therefore, Marin specially sent a team of craftsmen who handle the leather to guide the locals in handling the leather and avoid the leather from spoiling.

In addition to this, the ship also brought a high-carbon steel short knife used to separate the thick leather, which was specially used to cut through the thick leather of animals such as rhinos and elephants. After all, the local natives, without these tools, naturally could not provide a large amount of leather to the Portuguese in the past.

In addition, the ship brought 100 Mushkert muskets, which were specially used to hunt rhinos, and were also equipped with special steel ball bullets.

However, these arquebuses, Marin was not given to the local black uncles. After all, the accuracy of the arquebus is relatively poor, and the Europeans use it themselves, and it is still difficult to hit the target, so let Uncle Black use it, so it is not wasted? You know, it's the 21st century, and those black uncles can't use modern firearms accurately, let alone use arquebuses with worse accuracy?

So, Marin himself sent 100 hunters with good archery skills to use. As for those black uncles, Marin felt that it was better to let them use swords, bows and arrows. Moreover, Marin also ordered a batch of Mao Gonggong, who could ride horses and knew archery, from the Crimean Khanate, and planned to teach these black uncles the basics. As for the musket, forget it, the other side has no foundation, it is a complete waste of bullets.

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In addition to these tools, Marin also brought a lot of goods. After all, to buy the local natives, you have to come up with something appealing. For example, glass beads made by Venetian craftsmen, as well as various pottery bottles and jars, and white woolen cloth...... These are all very popular goods among the locals.

And, of course, salt and sugar. In later generations, Senegal was an important region for salt production. Because, the local climate is dry and hot, and it is an excellent area for salt drying.

However, in this era, salt drying technology does not seem to have appeared. It was not until about 1522 that the Haifeng Salt Farm in Wudi County, Shandong, was "easy to fry for drying" and developed the technology of drying salt. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the famous scientist Xu Guangqi of the Ming Dynasty widely promoted the salt drying method.

Therefore, despite the excellent conditions for drying salt, the indigenous people of Senegal are currently very short of salt. Even if it is to boil salt, there is a lack of firewood to boil salt. Because, the local area is dominated by grassland, and there is no firewood to cut down.

In the tropics, meat is difficult to preserve without salt, and it will spoil for most of the day. Therefore, in the Mali Empire, salt was an important commodity, which could be exchanged for gold (golden sands).

However, Senegal is the northwestern frontier region of the Mali Empire, and there is no golden sand from the Gulf of Guinea. Therefore, the locals are also very short of salt. The Portuguese, on the other hand, are not rich in salt, not to mention that salt is already expensive in Europe, and it is not much profitable to sell it to Africa, so it is better to sell glass beads that are beautiful and impractical.

Marin, on the other hand, needs to quickly open the gateway to Senegal and needs the locals to help him hunt rhinos and obtain rhino skins. Therefore, he did not hesitate to bring a large amount of salt in exchange for the support of the local tribe.

Sure enough, when Marin's representatives, led by the interpreter, took out bags of table salt packed in oil-paper bags, the eyes of the local chiefs straightened......

You know, in Timbuktu, North African merchants from afar can exchange salt bricks dug up in the Sahara Desert for golden sand. The locals don't have golden sands, and the Portuguese naturally don't bother to give them salt. So, locally, salt is precious.

When Eschwein proposed to go ashore to hunt the rhinos, several local chiefs knelt down in front of bags of white Marspart's refined salt.

The local chieftain offered to let the company's musketeers land to hunt the rhinos, as long as the Senegalese fur company provided each of their tribes with two bags of refined salt per month. Moreover, they will also send their warriors as guides to accompany them in search of rhinos.

Each tribe only asked for two sacks of salt every month, which made Eschwein very stunned. You know, this bag is only a pound of salt. In total, there are only five chiefs in the Cape Verde Peninsula who have approached the Senegalese Fur Company. In other words, for just 10 pounds of salt a month, the Senegalese Fur Company can hunt rhinos on the Cape Verde Peninsula at will......

Although the Cape Verde Peninsula is not large, it also has an area of five or six hundred square kilometers. The peninsula is mostly grassland, and there is a lot of wildlife. As for rhinos and elephants, there seem to be quite a few.

For the Senegalese fur company, the Cape Verde peninsula may be a little smaller. But since they bought off several local chiefs with salt, the Senegalese Fur Company has been granted the right to land and hunt rhinos freely, and that's all that matters.

In the future, the Senegalese Fur Company could use the Cape Verde Peninsula as a starting point and head inland to hunt more rhinos. Otherwise, the rhinoceros on the Cape Verde Peninsula alone is far from enough to make armor for tens of thousands of armies.

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Satisfied with his return to the base on Gorée, he did not know that after he left, several chiefs of the Cape Verde Peninsula were talking about him. Not a good word, of course.

The Dakar tribe is one of the most powerful tribes on the Cape Verde peninsula, and later, this place was named after this tribe. The Dakar chieftain Maghan looked greedily at the two packets of refined salt in his hand, he was the chief of the largest clan of his generation, and the most knowledgeable one. As a young man, he traveled extensively and went to big cities like Timbuktu. At that time, he saw an Arab merchant from North Africa in Timbuktu who used a brick of salt and took a bag of golden sand. Having dealt with the Portuguese, he knew how precious the Sands were. Unfortunately, there is no local production of golden sands, so the Portuguese have little interest here. Of course, he didn't know, but luckily there was no golden sand in the area. Otherwise, the Portuguese would never mind sending troops to occupy this place.

At this time, a chief named Suva smiled and said:

"You say, is this white man not very good at braining? Just to hunt rhinos, they actually gave us precious salt for nothing! After speaking, he also proudly raised the two generations of refined salt in his hand.

When Maghan heard this, he laughed and said:

"Whatever, he's willing to give it away for free, can we still refuse to accept it? I tasted it, and the salt tasted much better than the salt bricks I had seen in Timbuktu. You know, the salt bricks that are exchanged for gold in the Timbuktu market still taste a little bitter, far less than the quality of this salt. ”

Can it not be bitter? The salt in the Timbuktu market, mainly from several salt mines in the Sahara Desert, is the standard mineral salt. There are many impurities in mineral salts, and it is normal for them to have a bitter taste. Some are even poisonous. Of course, the salt produced by the salt mines supplied to Timbuktu is not poisonous, otherwise it would not sell well in the Timbuktu market. However, a little bitter taste is unavoidable. After all, that's mineral salt. Although there are also high-quality products in mineral salt, the quality of most mineral salts is average.

But even these mediocre quality mineral salt bricks, as chieftains in remote areas of the Mali Empire, they usually can't enjoy them. Because, they lack the golden sand in exchange for salt bricks. Therefore, the non-bitter refined salt that Eschwein sent them to brine was so precious in their eyes.

Moreover, for several local chiefs, the local rhinoceros is actually a big hazard. Because, where those rhinos pass, the local natives also have to avoid three points. Otherwise, you will be accidentally injured by a rhinoceros. If these outsiders are willing to help hunt rhinos and bring precious salt, why wouldn't they do it? Such a Kaizi, they wish they could meet it every day......