The black-feathered warbler flies by the sea, and the golden shoulder feathers shine brightly. This small songbird is so fast and beautiful, and so loves to be lively. They blinked their small eyes, landed on the approaching shoal, and stared curiously at the long boat that they had never seen before.

After a while, the long boat docked by the sea. The familiar two-legged beast jumped to the shore, waving its extraordinarily slender claws, and uttered a strange and rhythmic cry.

"God bless you! We're docking again!"

Seeing this scene, the timid warblers shrank their bright feathers in unison. Then, they turned around in a hurry, chirping to remind each other, and fled into the jungle with their wings, and disappeared in a moment.

"Ah! Praise the Lord God! This is the warbler from my hometown, which symbolizes auspicious omen of success! I didn't expect to see it here!"

Seeing the golden feather light flying away, Puton warrior Mo Kayin was startled, with a long-lost smile on his face.

After a long voyage, more than 100 Puton fighters who boarded the ship have lost forty or fifty people in fighting and disease. As the leader of the Puton warriors, Mokayin felt heavy in his heart. Although he was known as persevering and was used to death, he still felt uncontrollably tired of this endless voyage and exploration.

The Prepecha warriors and sailors on the same boat, the warriors of the Silver Crow tribe, sailed for a longer time, even close to a year. They also felt deeply tired from this long sailing exploration. Even though the belief in the Lord God inspired everyone, the priests on board the ship often comforted them, and the villages along the way provided sufficient fresh water and some extra comfort. The morale of the entire expedition fleet was still inevitably declining day by day.

Because the sailors have been bumping for too long and trekking for too long. They yearn for stability, even if they just stay somewhere on the island, resting still is a hundred times more comfortable than constantly drifting at sea. Sailing in this era, even along the coast, is a laborious and exhausting torture.

Until a few days ago, the trustworthy Captain Chihuaco solemnly announced that the fleet had turned back to the west, and the destination of the voyage was not far ahead! The morale of the crowd picked up a little. And Mokayin also had some interest, he was able to look at the flying birds in the sky with a sharp throwing spear on his back.

"Aww! The elders of the tribe said that meeting a bird is a good omen for a hunter!"

Following Mokayin's joyful shouts, the Puton warriors on several ships also howled happily, followed by the Silver Crow warriors under Osprey, and then the sailors of various tribes rowing.

In the Campeche region of the Central Maya, you can also see the deftly flying warblers. This beautiful and colorful bird is found almost all over the coast of the Caribbean Sea, and it is a favorite creature in all parts of the coast. In the entire fleet, only the warriors from Prepeca looked at each other in blank dismay, not recognizing such a beautiful bird that did not exist on the plateau.

"Praise the Lord God! Meeting Yingque is a good omen for the fleet!"

Priest Tomat was the first to react. After hearing Ticaro's translation, he became excited, held up the scriptures, and shouted to the crowd.

"This is the will of the Lord God, and also the blessing of the Lord God! She told us that the destination of the voyage is just ahead! Praise the Lord God! God bless us!"…

Soon, the old militiaman Chihuaco, also with the backbone of the ship, joined forces. Then, the shouts turned into cheers, gradually spreading far away, resounding through the entire exploring fleet.

"Praise the Lord God! God bless us!"

The deafening cheers continued, and it didn't take long for the Taino people on the coast to pay attention. Dozens of Taino militiamen approached carefully with spears in hand, and communicated with Kuba, the translator of the fleet, for a while.

Then, joyful expressions appeared on the faces of these simple Taino villagers. They raised their wooden spears and called out the names of the local tribes.

"Yaya Yaya! piragua'? Guaricoque'? Great spirit of divinity, welcome the visitors of the longships, to our land! The beautiful warblers welcome their kindred from afar, here is the 'red soil' The Cassava Tribe', the Red Soil Tribe!"

The Red Earth Department is located on the coastal plain, relying on a large river flowing from the inland, and there is also a lagoon with rich aquatic products outside the bay. Seeing such terrain, Chihuaco knew at a glance that this must be a large tribe! On Cuban Snake Island, the necessary conditions for a large tribe are plains that provide food, rivers that provide fresh water, and coastal lagoons or inland lakes that provide fish. The population of each large tribe is around 2,000 to 3,000 people. The population of each ministry will not be particularly large, nor will it be particularly small, and it appears to be very uniform, which is estimated to be the limit of natural carrying capacity.

The fleet traveled three thousand miles along Cuban Snake Island, made a full half-circle, passed a dozen large tribes, and never encountered a particularly large tribal alliance. This means that there have been no large-scale fighting or brutal merger wars among the major tribes.

For thousands of years, the peaceful and kind Taino Islanders have almost maintained the simplest social form and the most moderate ethnic relations, and have never gone further and changed to a higher organizational form

And this also implies that the exploration fleet, the three thousand miles of Cuban Snake Island, has no tribal alliance, let alone the embryonic form of the kingdom. There are no full-time warriors in the Taino village, nor are there any god-descended nobles with higher status and great power born from the warrior group. The status of the villagers is more equal, they work and celebrate together, and raise their children together.

The tribe lacks herbal medicine, likes to smoke magic tobacco, and because of the lack of processing technology, they eat slightly poisonous cassava for a long time. Therefore, the life span of the villagers is often very short, and the elders in the clan are only in their 30s or 40s. This kind of population renewal with high death rate maintains the population balance of the island smoothly, and even retains the characteristics of the ancient matrilineal clan.

Everything is the oldest and the most simple look. Everything stands still in place, as if frozen in time, just as it was thousands of years ago.

"Well, the Red Earth Department has also formed a patrol militia with wooden spears!"

The old militiaman Chihuaco glanced over the welcoming Taino militiamen, and immediately found something different. There was some speculation in his eyes. He looked at Priest Tomat and nodded affirmatively.

"The weir pond for fish farming outside the village was empty. The villagers were vigilant at first, and the canoes in the village were all parked together. There were special people guarding the Red Earth Department. They must have been harassed by the Siguayu people!"

"Then adapt to the situation and see the attitude of the local leader!"

"good!"

The local leader ~lightnovelpub.net~ didn't show anything special. They quickly determined that the longship coming from afar had nothing to do with the Siguayu bandits, but with the former Mayapan caravan.

"Praise the Goddess of the Moon! Praise the God of Cassava! Praise the Goddess of Storms! Praise the ancestors of Death! You are friends, not enemies!"

Since it is a friend's visit, the welcome dinner will be as it is now. Everyone in the fleet worked hard for another night, with pain and happy smiles on their faces.

On the second day, Priest Tomat got up early and couldn't wait to wake everyone up. Then, he announced excitedly.

"I chatted with a few girls from the Red Earth Tribe all night! They told me that the reason why this place is called the 'Red Earth Tribe' is because the land is red! And in the south of the tribal village, there are several red earth and stone mountains !"

"Puap, call for a small team of warriors! Let's go and see if there are any mineral deposits that the kingdom needs in these red clay mountains!"

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