The Alaskan coast in July was lush green with tall grass, pink with fresh shoots on low trees, and above all a summer sea of flowers in a thousand purples and ten thousand reds. Flocks of colorful birds soared and danced freely between the sky and the distant mountains. Herds of deer and colonies of marmots, large and small, bounded lively through the pine forests and mountain wilds. Dense schools of salmon and herring gathered in the river mouths and lakes, straining to swim upstream...
From the sky to the mountain forests and then to the nearshore waters, everywhere there were flourishing grasses and trees, blooming seas of flowers, and flocks, herds, and schools of birds, beasts, and fish brimming with life, breeding and playing to their hearts' content. And when the Kingdom's Zheyang Ship passed the ten-thousand-year unmelted icebergs and arrived off the coast of Alaska in high summer, this was the moving sight that met their eyes: life surging, all things racing to burst forth, unforgettable to anyone who saw it.
"Blessed by the Main God! Summer is the Main God's gift. He walks down from the towering Ancestral Peak of the Sky God, bestowing abundant food upon tens of thousands of tribes, and hanging the long-unsetting Sun high in the sky!..."
The noon sunlight fell across the deck of the Zheyang Ship, and Shishaldin Volcano on the northern horizon also appeared clearly before everyone's eyes. At the sight of this seaside mountain two thousand five hundred meters tall, the Kingdom Warriors and tribal sailors aboard the ship all prostrated themselves on the deck, praying toward the God Mountain in the north.
"Praise the supreme Main God! Praise the sacred ice peak of the white mountain!..."
"Uh!... Praise the Eastern Sea Main God... Praise that... great white-headed mountain!..."