"Praise the supreme Main God! He guided us to the foot of the endless God Mountain, to the mouth of the surging Blood River, and to the bountiful Thousand Island Bay! This broad Thousand Island Bay, a hundred li wide, lay several dozen li west of the Blood River's estuary. North of the great bay was a range of white mountains that blocked the Cold Wave, sparing the bay's winters from the most savage, frenzied cold. The great bay was enclosed on three sides, gathering the winding rivers of the north and the snowmelt of ice mountains, connecting to the depths of the unbroken mountains, with only the sea mouth opening to the south. And dozens upon hundreds of islands were scattered here like stars on a chessboard, encircling a stretch of shallow-blue, magnificent seawater. Of course, what stirred the fleet's heart the most was the abundance where shoals of fish gathered in this warm bay!..."
"In the midsummer season of the seventh month, long cod circled among the islands, so numerous they were like corn growing from the sea. And millions upon millions of King Salmon, Sockeye Salmon, and Coho Salmon returned here from every corner of the ocean. They passed the islands, leaped over waterfalls, and followed the rivers all the way upstream toward the north. Countless Sugpiaq tribes and Eyak People tribes also gathered here from the vast northern mountains to catch the summer's abundant fish... Without a doubt, this broad and bountiful Thousand Island Bay was precisely the shared summer camp of the northern tribes for hundreds of li around!"
"By the time the fleet arrived here, it had already sailed a full thousand li from the last Divine Revelation's gold-mine port, Divine Gold Creek Port. This thousand-li voyage, following the ocean current westward, would be