The Scholar's Sailing Diary, Long Bay Tribe and Great Whale Island, The Best Tribal Soldiers!

"In early August, we climbed the rolling mountains on the western side of Thousand Island Bay and saw Ancestral Peak of the Sky God, linked to the heavens! That sacred sight was like the Main God's true guidance, carved deep into the hearts of everyone in the fleet! Without question, the fleet's five Longships remained there for two days, lit holy flames, and held a grand prayer ceremony. The newly joined tribal Sailors, hearing that this was the God Mountain where the Main God had once stayed, also joined the prayers with devotion. They seemed to be gradually fusing the ancestor worship of Ancestral Peak of the Sky God with the supreme faith in the Main God..."

"And this was also something the fleet's Priests were glad to see! In my view, faith is always a gradual process. It must first enter deeply into people's hearts, solving the question of whether it exists at all, before being raised step by step into purity, becoming ever more devout and focused, until one is willing to dedicate everything to the Main God... Just like the fleet's Kingdom Warriors, who, over the course of this voyage, as His Majesty's prophecies came true, all gradually grew into the most devout fanatics!... Witnessed by the Main God! We will surely spread the Main God's glory through that vast, desolate, yet white and sacred land of the far north!..."

"In addition, during this prayer ceremony at God Mountain, we also encountered a Sugpiaq hunting party. They wore thick sealskin furs, carried many stone- and bone-tipped javelins on their backs, and also had more than a dozen short Hunting Bows. This set of equipment already made them the most capable northern hunters we had seen. And after they heard that we were making offerings to the ancestral