Chapter 209 The Tribe on the Floating Island (Please vote and comment)
It was the beginning of summer, and the weather was getting hot. Luo Chong felt refreshed while soaking in the river. It was so comfortable.
The river water was very clear. Luo Chong dived into the riverbed and probed with his hand. It was about five or six meters deep, about the same as the deep water area of a swimming pool, but not too deep.
Rourou and Huishan were born to play with water. They didn't want to come out of the river. They stuck their noses in the water and blew bubbles. They also used their noses as water guns and sprayed everywhere.
Dali gritted his teeth and took his horned deer into the water. When crossing the river, he hugged the horned deer's neck tightly. This guy seemed to be a little afraid of water.
Others also went into the river and swam to the other side. The group rested by the river for a while. After Rourou and Huishan had enough fun, they continued to move eastward.
The terrain on the east bank of the river changed again. Trees increased again. There were fewer trees on the shore. The further east you went, the more trees there were. However, they were still sparse and did not form a forest. Generally speaking, it was still a plain dominated by grasslands and shrubs. However, the terrain in the distance began to rise higher and higher, and some hills gradually appeared.
The figure of the giant eagle appeared in the sky again, still flying eastward. It seemed that these giant eagles lived near the salt lake in front. The floating island in the distance was already faintly visible. According to the guide, if you walk, it will take less than two days.
Luo Chong estimated that with human speed, if you just rush, the two-day journey will be about dozens of kilometers, about fifty or sixty miles. If the road is easier to walk, it may be farther.
It soon became evening again, but just when Luo Chong and his team began to look for a campsite, suddenly a very high-pitched and very unpleasant wild animal cry came over.
Uh-huh, huh-huh--
Fuck, this can't be a wild donkey. Hearing this unpleasant cry, Luo Chong was instantly disappointed. He thought he could find a herd of cattle or horses, but he didn't expect to meet a wild donkey in the end.
But things did not go as Luo Chong expected. When Luo Chong saw the creature that made the ugly noise, he and Dali and the other cavalrymen were stunned on the spot. Only the guide was in a better mood. He might have seen that thing before.
What was that? To be precise, it should be a horse, because it is bigger than a donkey. The shoulder height of an adult horse should be more than 1.5 meters and the body length should be more than 2 meters. It is a kind of horse that is very suitable for people to ride.
But Luo Chong looked at the herd of horses in front of him and did not show any joy. Instead, the corners of his mouth could not help twitching. Don't ask why, I will cry if you ask, because Luo Chong saw a group of zebras.
Damn, don't laugh, whether to catch them or not is a very serious question, okay? There is definitely no problem in catching them and using them, but can you imagine a cavalry unit full of zebras? It's simply unimaginable.
The zebras in front of me have shorter faces than ordinary horses, shorter necks, but they look very thick, and their bodies are also very strong. Their limbs are not very long in proportion to their bodies. Overall, they are very thick, but very strong.
It seems that this kind of zebra cannot be a speed type. It should have better endurance and greater pulling force, and should be able to carry more weight.
They are all black and white wide stripes. The stripes on the front of the face are the thinnest and most dense. The stripes on the entire head are vertical stripes, extending all the way to the waist. They are all vertical stripes, but the stripes on the body are wider.
When the stripes reach the waist, there is a clear dividing line. From the waist to the back, they all become horizontal stripes, extending all the way to the tail.
The calves below the knees and the entire abdomen of these zebras are white, without stripes. They look roughly the same as zebras on Earth, but their body size should be slightly larger. Zebras on Earth rarely have a shoulder height of more than 1.4 meters, but this one is more than 1.5 meters.
"Chief, what kind of animal is that? It looks like the blue antelope you caught before, but it has no horns. Its skin looks pretty good." Dali looked at it for a while and then asked Luo Chong.
"That animal is a horse. The one with stripes is a zebra. It would be better to use them to pull carts. It is also good to use them to plow the land. The footprints and feces we saw before should be left by them." Luo Chong introduced.
"Zebra, should we catch some back? That zebra looks very beautiful. It would be great if we could ride a zebra." Dali and the others looked at the zebra with their eyes shining.
Luo Chong looked at them strangely. Is your aesthetic so strange that you actually want to ride a zebra? However, Luo Chong thought about it carefully. The Han tribe really needs animal power now. It is good to find a horse. You don't care if it has stripes on its body. As long as it can work, it's fine.
Thinking of this, Luo Chong made up his mind and said, "We must catch them. We have more animals than we can use in our tribe. It would be a good thing to catch more. At least we can grow more rice.
But we can't catch them now. They should live in this area and won't run far. Since we know there are zebras here, we will bring more people to catch them next time and try to catch all the wild zebras. Otherwise, if we catch a few this time and let them escape, we may not be able to find them next time.
Don't disturb them now. Let's quickly set up the camp and light the fire with flint. I think the zebras seemed to be running away just now. There may be wild animals nearby. Everyone should be careful."
"Yes, chief." Several people agreed and started to cook dinner.
Soon, the smoke from the cooking rose up and went straight to the sky, and soon merged into the red clouds of fire.
Smoke is very conspicuous in open areas, so Luo Chong's camp was soon discovered by others.
To be precise, it was not people who discovered them, but the giant eagles hovering in the sky. However, those giant eagles told their owners that, yes, those giant eagles had owners.
At sunset, the sky was full of red clouds, and dozens of eagles flew back to their nests with their prey. That was the Eagle Tribe living on the floating island.
Raising falcons and using falcons to help humans hunt has been around since ancient times, and it has not been cut off in modern times. Princes from some oil-rich countries like to raise eagles and train falcons.
The Eagle Tribe is such a tribe, relying on raising falcons to help them hunt. The floating island was originally the habitat of these giant eagles. The men of the Eagle Tribe would find an eagle egg and raise it from a young age, and then train it from a young age.
Birds can be divided into two types according to the way they grow up. One type is like chickens, ducks, and geese, which can jump around by themselves as soon as they break out of their shells. This is a precocial bird.
The other type is like eagles, finches, and penguins. When they first hatch, they are usually ugly, and they don’t even have feathers. They can’t move around, and they must be fed by old birds to grow up. They won’t leave the old birds until their wings are full and they can fly out to hunt.
But they also have a characteristic that whoever feeds them will be their parents. The Eagle Tribe uses this to raise eagles.
(End of this chapter)
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