The Scholar's Nautical Diary, North Port's Opportunity for Development, The Whale Tribe's Conversion

"North Port, at 46 degrees north latitude, lay on the south side of the mouth of the mighty great river, the Columbia River, where many rivers converged! The Kingdom's men stationed at North Port were the two brother priests, Tu Shan and Tu He, and they had two fishing Longships and more than twenty Canoes from the local tribes. After more than a year of their management, North Port's population had already grown to over five hundred, eighty percent of them Clatsop tribespeople absorbed by the Kingdom. These Clatsop people were excellent fishermen, hunters, and gatherers, but they were not good at farming. So the whole port had only opened up several hundred mu of potato, Sweet Potato, Corn, and pumpkin fields by the river inland to the south. And for now, the port's greatest source of food was still the fish they caught..."

"Among the ports along the Western Sea coast, North Port's position was extremely important! That was because the mighty great river flowed all the way from the distant east, with many, many branching water systems, and was said to be a full four thousand li long! It was the second lifeline of the Northern Continent known to the Kingdom, and it also linked hundreds, even thousands, of tribes together... In my view, this was a naturally excellent trading port, one that could establish peaceful trade with the many tribes of the vast interior! It was just that the great tribes around the great river might not think so..."

"When the Kingdom's support fleet, fully loaded with seven hundred warriors, arrived at North Port, the envoy of the northern Chinookan Confederacy happened to be staying in the port. The so-called northern river-mouth confederacy was in fact a union of the Chinook tribe, the Cathlamet tribe, and the