"May the Main God bless us! After the kingdom's support fleet arrived, faced with seven hundred Kingdom Warriors and sailors, the complete conversion of the Makah Whale Tribe became as natural as water flowing into a channel. This fishing-and-hunting tribe of barely five or six hundred people had long since intermarried with the kingdom's warrior-sailors, building trust with one another. And that fellow Zuwaro had even married the youngest daughter of Jinghai, the old hunter and chief of the Whale Tribe, making her his fourth wife... Main God above! I seriously suspect that if Zuwaro ever entered the kingdom's Inquisition one day, he would probably never come back out!..."
"The Whale Tribe's population wasn't large, but its significance to the kingdom was extremely important! They possessed unique whaling techniques and occupied a great many straits and headlands through which whales passed. With the Whale Tribe's skill at luring whales, their understanding of whale habits, and then the kingdom's great ships, throwing spears, and powerful crossbows, they could steadily hunt and kill the whales along the coast! And as long as they could catch one great whale, the yield of tens of thousands of jin, even a hundred thousand jin, of fish meat, along with a large amount of fine-quality oil, would almost be enough for the entire support fleet to receive ample food supplies!..."
"Praise the Main God! In truth, the kingdom's ports and coastal tribes along this journey did not have much surplus grain. The kingdom's support fleet had never managed to store enough provisions. But after reaching the Whale Tribe, the support fleet took part in a whaling hunt and killed a handsome Humpback Whale, gaining forty or fifty thousand jin of whale meat and several thousand jin of oil!..."
"At Whale Port, the support fleet unloaded the