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Chapter 1450 1426. Barrels of whale oil (Thank you for your continued support)

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    The water column ejected by the Arctic right whale is V-shaped. The water pressure is very strong and can eject five or six meters high, like two fountains.

    After one right whale spouted water, other right whales followed suit and started spewing water one after another. One of them happened to be next to the Melon Princess, and the water splashed onto the ship!

    Winnie scattered all the fish pieces in batches. The right whales were all big-bellied and hadn't eaten enough yet. They found no fish pieces in the water, so they leaned out. This time they were not just peeping.  , with half of its head sticking out.

    "Wow, what a bunch of greedy guys." Winnie smiled, she waved her hands repeatedly and shouted, "Goodbye, guys, no more, no food, you have to hunt for yourself!"

    The right whales were unable to stay upright in the water for too long. Later, they got tired and dived back into the water. At this time, the Melon Princess continued to drive towards the north.

    After driving for a while, the sea monster in the cab came out and said with a smile: "Judging from the fish finder, these guys are still following us."

    Shaq exclaimed: "How is it possible? Right whales swim very slowly. They can't keep up with our fishing boat!"

    The sea monster shrugged and said, "Maybe they just had enough to eat and drink and burst out with great strength? But they are following. If you don't believe me, go and watch in the cab."

    Qin Shiou also found it incredible. The right whale swims very slowly and cannot keep up with the ship that is traveling at a speed of forty or fifty kilometers per hour, so he guessed that the bodyguards in the water were following too close.

    Sure enough, when Poseidon entered the water with his consciousness, he saw that the Giant Monster and the Black Overlord were swimming at an accelerated speed just like the competition. He quickly controlled the two and gave orders to the sea pythons behind him to let them dive deep and swim outward.

    The climate gets colder as you go north. Qin Shiou was interested in blowing the sea breeze outside and teasing tigers, leopards, bears and wolves before, but he lost interest after entering the Labrador waters. He only went out to bask in the sun at noon at most.

    Usually having a lot of free time, Qin Shiou kept releasing Poseidon consciousness. After entering the Red Bay in the Labrador Sea, a sunken ship more than 20 meters long appeared on the seabed.

    Seeing this sunken ship, the Qin officials were refreshed. This ship was a three-masted sailing ship. It looked like a large wooden ship commonly used in the 15th and 16th centuries. It had a horn on the bow and a family crest. It looked a bit like a treasure ship.  .

    But when he looked closer, he found that there were four small wooden boats on the rotten and broken stern of the ship, so it was probably not a treasure transport ship.

    In order to prevent the crew from having ulterior motives and stealing or taking away the treasure on the ship, the treasure ship will not bring so many small boats, but this is how the whaling ship operates.

    When he entered the cabin, Qin Shiou was shocked. He saw several corpses. Because the waters of Labrador were cold all year round, these corpses were enclosed in the cabin. They had few bacteria and did not rot. They remained dehydrated and turned into mummies.  It looks very scary.

    There are many kinds of corpses on the seabed. Some will rot, and some will swell due to immersion in sea water. However, if the latter kind of corpses do not rot for a long time, they will dehydrate due to the density difference between the inside and outside as the cells die.  , this is what it looks like in the end.

    Dehydrated corpses are the most terrifying thing Qin Shiou knows. Due to the strong muscle spasms, the expressions of these corpses look very ferocious, and even the facial features are crowded together or the facial features cannot be distinguished.

    In the cabin next door, he found two large boxes, which were sealed tightly. This made him look forward to it. Will there be any treasures inside?

    As a result, he stirred up waves, and the rotten box easily shattered, and what fell out were all white bones!  And judging from the appearance of the skull, it is clearly a human bone!

    But this didn¡¯t make sense. Qin Shiou was surprised that the corpse next door was dehydrated. How could the corpse in this box be so completely decomposed?

    There was nothing to explore. If he couldn¡¯t think clearly, he didn¡¯t want to think about it. He continued to search and found that there were many large oak barrels piled up in the cabin. He broke one of them and found a solidified grease-like substance inside.

    In this way, he determined that the ship was a whaling ship, and the oil should be whale oil.

    The Labrador Sea was once an important whaling base for the Basques. In the 15th and 16th centuries, tens of thousands of right whales lived in this area. Since then, through continuous extermination culling,  The right whales here are now on the verge of extinction.

    According to Qin Shiou¡¯s knowledge, during the peak period at the end of the sixteenth century,During the whaling season, more than 2,000 whalers lived in the Red Bay area and produced 500,000 gallons of whale oil for profit.

    At that time, whale oil was a valuable item, used for lighting, lubrication, and as an additive to medicines, soaps, and asphalt.  Whale oil with added spices was the favorite fuel of European nobles in the 16th century.

    After the Basques caught whales in Red Bay and refined the fish oil, they could sell it to Europe through a one-month ocean voyage. The price of a 55-gallon barrel of whale oil could be as high as $10,000 today.

    ¡°So for the Basques, discovering a right whale reserve in Labrador is equivalent to discovering a gold mine.

    But for Qin Daguan, this was useless. After careful search, he found that the only valuable things in the ship were barrels of whale oil in the cabin and a box found in the sealed cabin.

    This box was sealed with whale oil, so although he didn¡¯t know what was inside, Qin Shiou estimated that it was well preserved.

    He originally wanted to open it, but considering that the owner of the box had sealed it with whale oil, the things inside were obviously afraid of water, so he found a giant monster and asked it to suck the box with the suction cups on its tentacles, and then release the water.  Let¡¯s see again.

    Taking the box with him, Qin Shiou left helplessly. Whale oil has no value nowadays. Whether it is lighting or lubricating oil, whale oil already has better substitutes.

    In this way, he withdrew his Poseidon consciousness and sighed subconsciously. Winnie next to him looked at him strangely and asked, "What happened? You seem very depressed?"

    Qin Shiou said: "I've been at sea for too long and haven't found any suitable catches. I will inevitably get frustrated."

    Things must go to extremes. After going all the way north for supplies at Burwell Port, we left the Labrador Sea and entered one of the coldest areas in Canada - Baffin Island.

    Passing through the Hall Peninsula of Baffin Island and entering Davis Strait, Canada and Greenland can look at each other across the strait.

    When they arrived at a place like this, the temperature dropped to below zero. They planned to cross the Davis Strait to the Ilulissat Ice Bay. However, when the fishing boat arrived at the port of Attu Island to prepare supplies, Qin Shiou unexpectedly discovered the life in this sea area.  Lots of king crab!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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