Chapter 764: Human Courage and Wisdom
After paddling around the sea with a simple oar, and after checking the quality, Bi Fang towed the hull back to shore.
Then the planer was used to cut some uneven places on the edge, cabin and bottom of the ship, and the original black hull immediately turned milky white, and the appearance rose by more than a grade.
Manager Fils looked greedy.
Swapping a tree for a good-looking canoe polished by a legendary adventurer like Bi Fang is a really lucrative business.
In the future, it will be placed at the door of the resort, and it is not forbidden to touch, after a long time, the hull is pulped, and the value can rise to another level, which is not more advanced than a tree?
Maybe there's more than one.
Looking back at Bi Fang, who had returned to the shore and began to process another palm tree, Fils graciously handed over a bottle of boiled mineral water.
"Thank you."
Bi Fang was in full swing, just a little thirsty, took the water bottle and dried it in one gulp, and couldn't find the trash can, Fils had already snatched the water bottle and helped dispose of the garbage.
Bi Fang: "......"
If he didn't know what Fils really thought, Bi Fang would have felt that the other party was a little suspicious.
The second canoe is made in exactly the same way as the first, it is still burned first and then planed, but the shape of the hull is completely different.
At least in the eyes of the audience, the first canoe looked quite huge with its feet raised high at both ends, and this one was much shorter, about half the height of the first.
[Why did the old party want to make two canoes] [yes, replace?] [How do you replace this thing, does one fix the other?]
[I know this!] Attach the ship's chains together to improve the stability of the boat!] [What kind of fire burned Chibi?] Bi Fang did not answer directly, but talked about another thing.
"There were three archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean, the first being Melanesia, which included present-day New Guinea, Vanuatu, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, etc.; The second archipelago was Micronesia, which included the present-day Mariana Islands, the Marshall Islands, Guam, etc.; The last one is Polynesia."
"At least 5,000 years ago, ancient humans from southern China passed through our treasure island, about 3,000 B.C., then rate ice, about 2,000 B.C., and then the Indonesian archipelago, all the way to the south, and finally divided into four branches."
"One turned westward and occupied Madagascar around 300 AD; One passed east through New Guinea and settled in Melanesia; One group traveled north through Melanesia and settled in Micronesia; The last group continued eastward, occupying almost all the remaining viable islands in the Pacific Ocean and developing Polynesia."
"Of the four branches, the Polynesians have the greatest journey. They only recuperated in Melanesia, i.e., continued their journey eastward from Fiji, first occupying Tonga and Samoa in West Polynesia, and then discovering the Society Islands and Marquesas Islands."
"Here they divided into two groups, one based on the Marquesas Islands and went north to occupy Hawaii, the other based on Pitcairn Islands \ Henderson Island to occupy Easter Island, the most remote island in the world, and the last one, around 1200 AD, went south to occupy New Zealand, thus ending the 4,000-year colonization journey of the Polynesians."
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"This migration is one of the most powerful migrations in human history, thousands of years ago, when navigation technology was still quite underdeveloped, these Nanyang people were able to sail tens of thousands of nautical miles, occupying the largest ocean on the earth, all the islands in the Pacific Ocean that could survive."
Many of the islands in Bi Fang's mouth are quite unfamiliar with the names of Hawaii and Easter Island.
While that doesn't stop the audience from imagining a great migration.
A few tiny canoes drift across the ocean, just looking for a glimmer of life.
"Judging from the technical level of the Polynesians, they have never mastered the construction technology similar to keel ships, nor have they invented navigation tools such as compass, sextant, and navigation clock, and it is unbelievable that they have conquered the South Pacific with just this simple canoe."
"In fact, we far underestimate the human desire for survival, and the courage and wisdom inspired by this desire."
"At this point, if you take out your phone and look at the world map, you can see that the islands in the Polynesian Triangle, except for Hawaii and New Zealand, are all the size of a drop in the bucket."
Bi Fang gestured a little finger to symbolize the size of those densely packed islands.
"At such a small size, the resources above must not be enough to support the development of human society, and in order to develop, Polynesians have to look to the sea."
"Because the accumulation of civilization is so limited, the only thing the Polynesians can do is a canoe made from a whole log."
"Ordinary canoes, with slow sailing speed and poor stability, must really not be able to face the rough seas of the South Pacific. At this time, the Polynesians made a simple and explosive invention, that is, outboard support technology!"
[So those people in the Pacific are all Chinese?] [, the ancestors are awesome!]
[I think the old side is more likely to want you to pay attention to the outboard bracket (dog head) he said]
It's not the same as the concerns that will be aroused in the imagination, but Bi Fang didn't care, but explained it.
"Strictly speaking, it can indeed be considered that they are all Chinese, and everyone's ancestors are from the same land." Bi Fang smiled, "I remember that in 10 years, there were still six French Polynesian warriors who came back to 'visit relatives'."
"At that time, the six Polynesian Austronesian speakers drove antique canoes, followed the footsteps of their ancestors, from the South Tahiti of French Polynesia in the South Pacific, to cross the Pacific Ocean in light boats, which lasted four months, sailed 16,000 nautical miles, and drifted all the way across the ocean to the Mawei Ferry Terminal in Fuzhou."
[Shhh [It's a bit strong]
[It turns out that Lao Fang is not the first to do this (Legend value drops)]
[No, crossing Nemo Point and crossing the Pacific Ocean are two different concepts...... And the old side has no supplies, right?]
[Indeed, there is no analogy.]
"From the archipelago to the Chinese people, this is enough to prove the great fact that canoes are perfectly capable of crossing the Pacific Ocean. It was a convenient means of transportation on the sea in ancient times, and our ancestors mastered the skill of harnessing it."
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"At that time, the canoe could carry a human from the land to any island in the Pacific, and now it is no exception, even Nemo Point."
"Ahem, a bit off topic, I was going to introduce the outboard canoe."
[You continue (laughs)] Bi Fang cut off a layer of bark and continued.
"Because it is made of a whole tree, the hull of the canoe is generally relatively elongated, and it is made of hollowing out the trunk of a single log, so that the hull is not easy to leak and fall apart. But a single hull can still capsize in the waves."
"The clever Polynesian ancestors invented the outboard bracket grafted on the outside of the hull thousands of years ago by adding two wooden spars to the outside of the hull to connect the hull to the side of the ship, where the side of the ship plays the role of counterweight and support."
"The parts are tied together with a rubber rope that is extremely resilient and durable. In this way, the improved canoe can improve the stability and resistance of the ship to the greatest extent possible without increasing the size of the ship."
"I made two canoes to achieve this structure and to develop it further into a simple platform that allows for free movement, for which the shape of our second canoe will be changed."
By the ninth day, the second canoe was formed.
Looking at the shape of the hull that was completely different from the first one, everyone realized how big the so-called change was.