Chapter 096: Dedication Once
After a misunderstanding, a gift, and a feast, the eighty pioneers of Cité Soleil befriended the Powhatan tribe and had a small plot of land of their own at the mouth of the Elizabeth River.
Chief Powhatan was still very generous, and he personally brought a few of his people to help the pioneers measure the land. When Hong Tao invited him to drink a cup of hot cocoa, the sturdy man immediately walked to the river, thrust a javelin with a feather tied to the ground, and stretched out his hand to wave it in the direction of the mouth of the river.
Hong Tao understood this meaning, from the place where the gun was inserted to the land at the mouth of the river, it all belonged to the pioneers. That is, north of the Elizabeth River, from the mouth of the river to the sea. The size has not had time to measure, and it is estimated that there are hundreds of square kilometers, which is really generous!
"I also have a gift for the Great Chief, you teach him how to use a lighter, and when you tell him that this is the divine fire of the sun god, and when he can't get angry, come here and ask the missionaries to help him inject divine power. By the way, I asked him if he had a daughter who was not married, and he said that the divine fire was most suitable for an unmarried woman with a high status. "The chief is so generous, Hong Tao is not a person who picks and shrinks, give someone a lighter to play. On the one hand, it is to show the divine power of the sun god, but the main thing is to ask if there is a big girl in the chief's house.
"He also has four unmarried daughters in his family, and he asks if anyone can take it?" The missionaries quickly taught the chief how to use a lighter and inquired about his family.
"Hey, hey, hey...... Whoever takes it will be, you go and tell him, we are very grateful for his help to us, and would like to invite him and his family to be guests. Hong Tao was very proud, he wanted to settle the problem of Carl's descendants before he left.
Chief Powhatan was really not at all wary, and happily agreed to Hong Tao's invitation, and not perfunctory, and came in canoes with more than twenty people the next afternoon.
These people are his family, with brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and three wives! Not too much, this is only a small part of his many wives, according to their custom, the chief can marry as many wives as he can, as long as he can support them. After having a child, the wife has to leave the chief to live in another village, and the child is brought up by the chief, and when she reaches adulthood, she can go to her biological mother.
"Your customs are so good! Cheers to your wives' health! Hong Tao was very active at the banquet this night, and kept calling on everyone to pour wine into his stomach for various reasons. Of course, he didn't drink it all himself, he poured it secretly and sprinkled it on his clothes, and he even drilled a small hole under his lunch box, and some of the wine would slowly flow out.
"Ask him, how is our marriage? Let's find a girl to marry his son, and he will marry a daughter to Mr. Karl, the chief of the land. When everyone was almost drunk, Hong Tao called the missionary again and asked him to discuss with the chief how to improve the friendship between the two tribes.
Chief Powhatan drank an astonishing amount of alcohol, and for him, who had never been exposed to high alcohol, it was really inappropriate to be able to persevere to the end, drink Carl and most of the people down, and still be sober, this is a talent!
Regarding the marriage issue raised by Hong Tao, he raised his hands and feet in favor. Their tribe fishes, hunts, and grows a little corn, pumpkins, and sunflowers. Karl's people have sharp machetes, large boats, sweet sugar, and good wine. Obviously, the two parties could cooperate later, and the marriage was very much in line with the habits of the Powhatans. As for whether Karl's age is appropriate, this is not a problem at all in the eyes of the chief who marries a daughter-in-law at will. Besides, he didn't know how old Carl was, Hong Tao told him that Carl was only thirty-five years old, just the right age!
Early the next morning, the chief left with his family, burping, and several jars of rum and sugar, which Hong Tao gave him as a dowry for his daughter. At the same time, a female immigrant boarded the Powhatan canoe and went to marry the chief's son. The chief was not ambiguous, and the dowry he gave made Hong Tao even more happy, and a large piece of land near the north bank of the river belonged to him again, as for how big it was, Hong Tao didn't bother to measure it. I can't measure it, with a wave of my arm and a finger of my hand, it's just a piece, and there is no accurate spectrum.
And Karl's bride, who had slept in Karl's cabin the previous night, was the chief's eleventh daughter, said to be seventeen years old, and was most popular with the chief. The most popular Hong Tao believes it, because she has the most and largest strings of shells around her neck, but seventeen-year-old Hong Tao doesn't believe it very much, it's good to have fifteen, how do you look at how a child.
The child had two nice names, Starry Sky and Beaver Mouse. Most Indians have a milk name given by their mother at birth, and it can be seen from the name that the star should have been born at night. Beaver rat is her name in the group, not by her parents, but by everyone, more like a nickname.
Every Indian should also have a third name, which is their real name. But the name isn't just a random one, you have to earn it yourself, it's like an honorary title. The name must be praised, for example, if a boy is particularly good at hunting, he will be called a deer hunter, a bear catcher; If he can chase prey over mountains and mountains, he will call it distant mountains, meadows or something. If a girl is good at making deerskin clothes, she will also have names such as skillful hands and bone needles. Beaver Rat has had her third name since last night, and she's called Indiana. Jones.
Don't ask, the name comes from Hong Tao, who explains to the chief that this Indiana Jones is a legendary hero of his own clan. The chief was very pleased, and agreed on the spot, and used the hero's name on his daughter, glorious!
"She will be your woman in the future, think it's okay to come over and see, before I free my hand, whether you can gain a foothold here depends on how well you get along with her." When Carl woke up, he didn't express too much surprise at the extra alien girl around him, and he wasn't an honest person himself.
"Why me! You can't always arrange my life, I'm fifty years old! But after listening to Hong Tao's words, Carl immediately became anxious.
"I've contributed several times, as my closest comrade-in-arms, for our common cause, shouldn't you also dedicate once? Don't tell me you don't like Mia, you don't like you, and you won't help her lie for more than a decade! So that time doesn't count, this is the first time I've arranged your life, and it's the last! Carl's reaction Hong Tao had already expected it, and how to convince him had also figured it out.
“…… For the last time! You swear! "This trick worked very well for Carl.
"I'll give you the name of this city!" Karl also put forward a condition.
"You've deprived me of a very important pleasure! What are you going to call this place? "Hong Tao is very uncomfortable, but for the sake of the great cause, he can only sacrifice the small sections.
Fort Mia! The vulgar name, originally Hong Tao thought it would be Fort Phillip, but he didn't expect Carl to love Mia so much. This can be regarded as a time of accumulation of virtue for himself, and he has achieved a pair of people who love each other, although the means are not very glorious, but the result is very good.
Carl and Jones's honeymoon was only half of it, and when Hong Tao drove the boat to go out early and return late every day, and almost detected the data of several rivers around him, he ruthlessly broke up the two of them and pulled Carl impatiently on the boat.
It's already May, and Senya will go crazy if she doesn't go back. And Jiang Zhuyi is also waiting for herself to bring back more effective explosives so that she can build her baronial castle. The construction of Mya Fort has basically ended, and the wooden walls, wooden houses, and wooden piers are exactly the same as the original Golden River Bay. The difference is that there is a good helper here, and the warriors of the Powhatan tribe come to help when they have nothing to do. One is that these people are really simple and enthusiastic, and the other is that they are hungry for wine, and they will have wine to drink when they come to work. Hong Tao also supported this kind of communication, and especially told the missionaries to learn more about their language and teach them Chinese, so that it would be easier to communicate in the future.
(To be continued.) )