From the northwestern part of the island of Madagascar to the 25th parallel, the southeast trade wind belt was blown, and for Hong Tao's fleet, the wind blew from the port side, and the crosswinds were very favorable for ships to navigate. Although the sails of the battleships in Jinhe Bay are similar to those of European sail warships, there is one small detail that is different. The sails of Jinhewan are very tight, and there are many more riggings to pull each sail into a plane, and these riggings are called sail ropes. With this small change, the ship's agility has become more flexible, and it can use crosswinds or even front winds to gain sufficient propulsion, especially in headwinds, even if you want to take a zigzag course, you don't have to draw a zigzag too big, the curve is straighter, and you can save a lot of range.

It was not until the 18th century that the British navy discovered the technique of using the Bernoulli effect, which tightened the loose canvas and allowed the same wind to bring more thrust to the sailboat, not only to increase the speed of the ship, but also to be more suitable for sailing in different winds, which was also a secret to the rise of the British navy.

When the 2,000-kilometer trade winds were carried away, the fleet was still about 2,000 kilometers away from the Cape of Good Hope, and then it entered the windless zone of 25 to 35 degrees in the Southern Hemisphere, which was later known as the subtropical high pressure zone. However, this windless belt is much more comfortable than the windless belt of the equatorial low pressure zone, and the westerly wind belt in the south will move north about five degrees in summer, in fact, there is not much time to survive by fishing and playing cards on the sea, and it only takes more than nine days to walk a thousand kilometers, which also makes Hong Tao breathe a long sigh.

The Horn of Africa, historically the same as the Drake Passage. It is also a notorious sea. Many of the ships that sailed around this place were wrecked here and hated for the rest of their lives. Although calculated by latitude. It's not really a westerly wind belt yet, but it's where the warm currents heading south from Mozambique and the icy currents heading north from Antarctica meet.

Colds and colds are the same for humans, and the same is true for the ocean. The two currents, cold and warm, turned the waters near the Cape of Good Hope into a battlefield, with one side continuing to rush south, and the other desperately trying not to give way. When they fight fiercely, the ships on the sea are unlucky, and violent storms are commonplace. Ten meters high waves are trivial. Don't be unhappy, maybe one day the sea will be boiling, and the twenty-meter-high waves will shoot down, not to mention the wooden ship, even if it is a modern steel battleship, it will be the fate of sinking to the bottom in minutes.

What's even worse is that the coastline near the Cape of Good Hope has little gentle shoals due to the movement of the earth's crust, and is full of cliffs and reefs. The high sea is windy and rough. You want to learn yellow croaker along the shore, dream! The shore is more treacherous. Once washed up on the reef by the current, the ship of several hundred tons will be smashed to pieces in an instant, and it can only die faster. In fact, it was not originally called the Cape of Good Hope, but was called the Cape of Storm by the Dutch, and it was only after Vasco da Gama returned to Europe from India with a boatload of tea and silk that the King of Portugal changed it to the Cape of Good Hope. It probably means that after here, you should have good luck, a wealth fan!

If Hong Tao had never played sailing in his previous life, he would not want to venture here; If he had only sailed in his previous life, had not sailed around the world, and had not crossed the Cape of Good Hope and Drake Passage, he would not have been willing to venture here. It's too exciting, too dangerous, it's better to make a fortune by honestly guarding the Indian Ocean.

Speaking of the Cape of Good Hope, it is impossible not to mention Cape Town, a city discovered by the Grape People and developed by the Dutch, which is one of the most suitable harbor cities for ships to dock in the Cape of Good Hope. Although it is not the southernmost point of the Cape of Good Hope, it has two excellent deep-water harbors in the south and one in the north, and there is a cold current from the south in the Table Mountain, and it is a plain area between the two mountain ranges, and there is no shortage of rivers, so it is very suitable for human habitation. In addition, there is a large amount of primeval forest on both sides of Table Mountain and Hout Bay, where the Portuguese and Dutch cut down trees and built ships to continue their advance into Asia.

What is the specific location of Cape Town, how much latitude and longitude is, does Hong Tao know? Hong Tao probably knows! However, you don't need latitude and longitude to find Cape Town, as long as you look at the shore, when you see the world's only flat-topped, Nima straight up and down peak, you can find Cape Town. This mountain is more than 1,000 meters high, the top of the mountain is full of clouds all the year round, it looks like a big hat from a distance, and it really looks like a tree stump up close, or it is called Table Mountain, the Portuguese navigator Antonio. Reach. Shadana felt that it should be God's table.

"Sir, what's on the reef over there? How could there be such a big bug! "When the Golden River turned the Cape Peninsula to the southwest side of Table Mountain, Vennan spotted something in his telescope that surprised him. In the course of this voyage, Wen Nan's IQ has a tendency to plummet, first listening to Hong Tao say that the earth he is stepping on is a round ball, then seeing what is called the equatorial windless zone, and then seeing a large bird several meters high on the island of Madagascar, and now seeing an animal he has never seen before. People, whether they are adults or young people, are easy to hold on to if they are too full, and it is the same if they see too much.

"It's not a bug, it's called a seal, it's a marine animal. If you look closely, there's another species of bird that swims in the sea and can't fly, and that's the penguin. By the way, don't you know how to draw, hurry up, draw them all, and in the future, your book will not only have a text introduction, but also an illustration, so that everyone can look more intuitive. Hong Tao picked up the binoculars, looked at the so-called big bugs on the reef, and immediately knew where this was. This is the seal of Hout Bay, and there are penguins on the beach, which is a very rich fishing ground in later generations, and it is also a tourist attraction for tourists from all over the world to take pictures. Every winter, thousands of seals and penguins roost and breed on both sides of the bay, two animals that are natural enemies in the water, but when they get to the shore, neither of them chases and bites anyone, and they are separated by several kilometers without disturbing each other.

"Uncle, those seals and penguins are so cute, can I catch two of them? It's like a little poop! "Weng Ya is a girl after all, even if she has a tendency to be a woman, at the critical moment, she will still show the demeanor of a little woman. Seeing those cute seals and penguins, her deep inner feminine tenderness was called out.

"This can't be done, you are far away and look at them cute, this thing weighs half a ton, you have to eat dozens of catties of sea fish at a meal, and you have to live, can you afford it? And they stink, don't believe it, you can smell them when you come ashore, and if you don't think they stink, then you can keep them. It's just one thing, if you raise them, don't come to my cabin in the future, I'm ugly! "Hong Tao has never heard of keeping seals and penguins as pets, and the ferociousness is not fierce to put aside, the fishy smell on their bodies is really not something that ordinary people can bear.

"Then let's catch a few and bring them back, raise them in Jinhe Bay, there are a lot of fish in Jinhe." When Weng Ya heard that seals and penguins were particularly smelly, she also lost her interest in keeping them as pets, but she didn't give up and wanted to take them home.

"Cheng, when the time comes, dig a big pond for them and fill it with sea water, it will be a zoo, in my uncle's hometown, there is a special garden of this kind, and if you want to go in and see it, you have to spend money to buy a ticket." Hong Tao is not concerned about catching a few seals and penguins, the little girl is willing to be tired and catches them, anyway, there is a place to put them on the Jinhe.

"Okay, I'll go find someone to prepare a big net, and I'll catch them when I get to the shore!" With Hong Tao's permission, Weng Ya was very excited, turned around and ran below the deck, probably because he was entangled in manpower.

"Hey, I can tell you, this thing is fierce, its mouth is full of big teeth, you must be careful not to let them bite, otherwise you will get sick, and I won't be able to save you!" Hong Tao suddenly remembered another question, and shouted at Weng Ya's back, but unfortunately Weng Ya had already entered the hatch.

Although nearly a thousand years have passed, Table Bay is still Table Bay, Table Mountain is still Table Mountain, and there is no change in the slightest. For nature, a thousand years is only equivalent to a day or an hour for human beings, and without hundreds of thousands of years of baptism, they will basically not change much. The only difference from the impression of Cape Town is the desolation, the east side of the table is now all low woods and grasslands, and at a glance, there is nothing.

"I don't snatch your eggs, you peck at my dry hair! Come, Yaya, it's yours, it's sent to your door, and it's fate. This time, Hong Tao did not stay on the flagship for remote control, but followed the first landing team to row a lifeboat and rushed to the beach. Not long after her feet landed on land, she was wondering if she would chant a poem and engrave it on Table Mountain, when there was a sudden pain in her calf, and a donkey penguin came over and attacked Hong Tao's trouser leg with her sharp beak. Hong Tao originally wanted to fly up and kick this nasty animal away, but in order to make himself look less savage, he still chose to reach out and accurately grabbed its neck with the palm of his leather glove, lifted it up, and sent it to Weng Ya behind him, and at the same time twisted his face, it really stinks, and the smell is added to the stench.

“…… It stinks! Then, I don't want it......" Weng Ya's previous beautiful imagination was instantly wiped out by the smell of this donkey penguin, not only did she not reach out to pick it up, but she also turned sideways to avoid it in disgust, and at the same time covered her nose with her hand.

"Everyone, pay attention, the animals here probably haven't seen many people, so they are not afraid of people. It's best not to let anything alive come near us, they're all poisonous, and everyone has followed me for tens of thousands of miles, and I hope everyone can go home with all their beards and tails, and no one will be buried in this land. As soon as Hong Tao waved his hand, the stinky donkey penguin was thrown out more than ten meters away, fell on the beach, and turned around several times before he could distinguish the front and back. Tasting the power of Hong's skin, it didn't dare to defend its rights anymore, and ran to the other side with its fat butt twisting and twisting. Hong Tao called the first group of landers together, and told them again, then waved his hand and took the lead to walk to the hill on the shore, he wanted to go to the commanding heights to see if the environment here was really barren. (To be continued.) )