Many years later, when Katata was covered in white hair and old, she could not go anywhere. She could only sit in front of her own window and watch the thick fog pouring from the sea as before, covering the west mountain like a gauze tent. Every time this time, she would remember the morning when she ran to the beach alone.

At that time, there were more than 300 tribes in her family, and there were about dozens of them, living scattered in the coastal areas from the northern end of the peninsula to the southern Big Sur. Although the tribes did not consider themselves a unified group, the tribes in the east of the Sierra Nevada called them "Miwok" - the Miwauk people.

By the way, Katata means "Kingfisher" in Miwaukee.

Like the rest of the tribe, the Katata family lives in a conical house with redwood as the skeleton and wrapped in redwood bark. The diameter inside is about three meters, and the whole family is crowded inside; including her father, mother, brother, younger brother, and herself.

One summer night, an old man named Soaring Eagle in the tribe where Katata was located found the chief and said that he had a strange dream. The chief attached great importance to this. You should know that Soaring Eagle is the only one among them who can communicate with the Eagle God. He quickly summoned the elders of the tribe to come to the "sweat steaming hut" used for prayer and sacrifice.

"It won't take long to come to us from the sea, a white ship we have never seen before. The ship is huge, and our 'tule ship' is like fleas and sea lions, even the white-skinned ships cannot compare with it. Their weapons are more fierce than the Spanish, and even the strongest white warriors cannot stop them. I looked down in the air, and the white-skinned people across the strait were driven to the south by the white-skinned people and could no longer enslave us."

"The Eagle God told me that he would stay away from us and go to the north. And here will be large tracts of cultivated land in the future, and we will all live in square houses, wearing soft woven clothes..."

At this time someone asked, "Who is on the white boat?"

"People who look similar to ours and are completely different. They have magical medicines that will save a lot of lives."

When the shaman in the tribe heard this, he hurriedly stood up and interrupted, "Don't believe the words of the Soaring Eagle. The Creator will never abandon us! Square houses, such a terrible thing! Sickness and death were arranged in advance by the Wolf God, and there are also certain foods given to us by God; if no one gets sick or dies, others will starve."

The elders were silent after hearing this. Seeing this, the soaring eagle had to turn around and come out of the "sweat steaming hut". Under the gaze of a group of tribal men, they returned to their residence.

After the sun set, Katata quietly entered the house of the Soaring Eagle while it was not paying attention. The old man seemed to be sick and lay motionless on the ground. Occasionally, he would raise his eyelids to look at him, and then close again.

Katata poured some water and waited for the soaring eagle to take it over and drink it. She whispered: "Is your prophecy true?"

The old man was silent for a moment, opened his eyes and stared at her and said, "Long time ago, Kaknu saw the same vision."

The Miwauk people respected the creation god "Coyote" as their ancestor, which looks like a wolf, while Kaknu is the grandson of the wolf god. He usually appears in the myth of the Miwauk people in the form of a peregrine falcon. Legend has it that when Kaknu ended his time in the world, he turned into a dove, then flew into the depths of the earth to fight against the underground lord Stone Monster, shooting monsters with all his arrows, and saving many people. When the stone Monster died, his body burst into pieces and turned into mountains scattered around the world. Kaknu lived in the underground world with the people he rescued, calm and peaceful.

"When will the white ship come?" Katata asked again.

"The weather turns colder, the maple leaves turn red, and the eagle god draped the fog-woven clothes from the sea on the top of the West Mountain, and the white boat arrived."

The soaring eagle reached into her arms and handed a necklace made of colorful shells to the girl in front of her, and then stopped talking.

Catata had no doubt about the old man's words. According to generations in the tribe, more than two hundred years ago, when the Spanish first established a colony on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, the ancestor of the Soaring Eagle and the prophet in the tribe at that time had a strange dream, and the situations in the dream came true one by one.

In that dream, a group of strange-looking people came from the sea. Their skin was as white as snow, their faces were long and hairy, and they were riding on a strange big ship with large white wings on it, like giant birds. These people held long and sharp knives and black and long tubes, and their lives would be taken away by pointing them at birds and animals.

In fact, not only Miwaukee, but many tribes on the North American continent have similar prophecies.

The Orons in California had dreamed hundreds of years ago that there would be strangers coming in their homes. These people had gray eyes, were very smart, and knew a lot of things that the Indians didn't know, but they would use all means to get what they wanted.

The prophet of the Windon tribe once dreamed that a white rabbit had eaten everything from their tribe.

More than a dozen days later, the soaring eagle passed away in her sleep. Since then, whenever thick fog rises from the sea, Katata will come to the beach to look out.

Time flies, and a year has passed. Of course, there is no "moon" in the concept of the Miwauker. They only have four seasons in their eyes. The berries and grass seeds in spring are the most delicious; the sun is hot in summer and the flowers are overgrown with strange plants; there are countless salmon in the stream in autumn, which is also the time when oaks and nuts are ripe; it often rains lightly in winter, but it is not cold.

Katata waited and waited, and everyone in the tribe was laughing at her. Fortunately, this behavior did not affect anyone. In addition, she was still a girl, so her parents followed her.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! During this period, more Miwauk people were attracted to the Spanish missionary area south of the strait. Even the tribe where Katata is located was sailing across the sea to try to trade with each other. When these Indians were curious, they participated in the "baptism ceremony" organized by monks wearing dark gray robes and were shocked to find that they had lost their freedom and it was impossible to return to the tribe.

Since the Spanish established a fortress across the strait in 1776, Franciscan monks followed him. When an Indian participated in baptism, his personal freedom was gone. Every day, they would engage in heavy physical labor under the whip and weapons, and be scolded by monks and supervisors, and dragged their tired bodies to attend Mass every morning, noon and evening.

If an Indian fails to report in the morning, his residence will be searched; if he is found to leave his residence without authorization, he will be treated as a fleeing, and the fortress will send people to round him up. Any form of escape will usually be severely beaten and chained, and even the slightest punishment will require 25 whips.

As the Franciscans were at a disadvantage in numbers, any form of resistance of the Miwaukers would be suppressed. When Indian women tried to abort children who were conceived by defilement, the monks would beat them up, lock them with iron chains, and shave their hair, and stipulated that women would stand at the altar at each Mass and confess to a baby carved from wood next to them.

In addition, the monks would let the baptized lead the way and go to the tribe accompanied by the fortress soldiers. After arriving at the village, they would let all the babies and children under the age of eight be baptized by tricks or coercion. The former would be kept for the mother because they were too young; the latter would be taken away and stay away from their families from then on.

Katata's brother was taken away like this three years ago, and the brother and sister have never seen each other again, so she really dislikes the Spanish.

The maple leaves began to turn red again. On that morning, Katata woke up early. When she walked out of the house, she saw that the mountains and forests in the distance were covered with a layer of flowing white veil, so she went back to the house to take her deerskin cloak and then walked towards the beach.

"Katata, are you waiting for your white boat again?"

"The Eagle of Soaring has been gone for a year, why do you still believe his lies?"

Katata ignored the sarcasm of the tribe. She walked out of the village and turned to look back at the western mountain. She saw that the flowing "white veil" was rushing towards the top of the mountain, and her pace couldn't help but speed up a little. When she came to the shore full of sea lions, the white veil had completely covered the top of the mountain.

"Creator, my tribe is suffering. I miss my brother and want him to go home! When will the news you have brought back by the Soaring Eagle be realized?"

The thick fog, like a wrapped veil, lingered around Katata; as the tide rose and fell, the waves roared like thunder. Soon, cool raindrops began to fall. The water surface of the entire strait, including the land, was shrouded in mist and drizzle.

I don't know how long it took, but when the rain became denser and denser, the fog began to fade away, Katata sighed softly. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he heard a strange sound from the distance that he had never heard before, as if a group of wolves howled in the mountains and forests, which was extremely long, but the sound was coming from the sea.

The Indian girl Miwauk was shocked, and she instinctively thought that this was the wolf god giving her a reminder, and her lips began to tremble constantly. At this moment, she really hoped that she could transform into Kanuk and turn into a peregrine falcon to find out.

Finally, when the morning mist on the sea disappeared and the rain stopped, a rainbow crossed the sky. At the end of the rainbow penetrated into the sea, a white dot as big as a fingernail was shining brightly in the sun.

Katata stared at her eyes widened for a while, and then she saw the white dot getting bigger and bigger until it became as big as her fist. She finally felt sure that it should be a ship.

"What the Soaring Eagle said is true!" Katata's eyes gradually became wet, and she knew that the old man was not lying to others!

"Bang!"

On the Spaniard's fortress south of the strait, a 12-pound bronze cannon opened fire. However, there was no shell in the cannon chamber. The fortress defenders were trying to warn the strange ships in the distance to avoid getting closer.

A few minutes later, the Spaniards in the fortress discovered that the white ship was really stopping two nautical miles away. When the fortress commander was waiting with confidence for the other party to send a small boat to contact him, a high column of water suddenly exploded on the sea about five hundred yards northwest of the fortress, followed by a roar like thunder.

I'm sorry! The fortress commander chrysanthemum tightened, thinking that I could still play friendly? I didn't even load shells, you guys are actually here!

Just when his heart was in a state of confusion, the second shell roared and landed in the bay three hundred yards east of the fortress, and another pillar of water rose up.

"Go and ring the bell! Notify everyone in the castle to be on guard, a group of unknown pirates are attacking us!"

Although the Spanish built the "St. Francis Royal Fortress" in the northernmost end of the later San Francisco Bay in 1767, and equipped with six 12-pound bronze cannons, it is just a simple courtyard-shaped fortress made of adobe, mud and wood, and is often damaged by earthquakes or heavy rain.

So far, there are only 52 Spanish soldiers in the fortress, and the others are except for a small number of monks, and there are laborers and families. The main responsibilities of the local garrison and the Spanish are not only to declare the kingdom's existence in northern California, but also to supervise the baptized Indian workers to carry out work including farming, grazing, hunting and weaving to support themselves.

As for the Spanish Governor's Office, far away in Mexico, there are very limited support for the local area, and only two supply ships will come every year.

"Dangdangdangdang~~~!!!"

As the commander issued an emergency order, a rapid bell rang out on the top floor of the monastery, and the royal fortress of St. Francis suddenly became in chaos and began an emergency mobilization.

Katata, standing opposite the strait, didn't know what was going on. Although her location was only two kilometers away from the turret on the other side of the strait, she could hear the roar of cannons, but the Miwauker Indians had no idea about cannons and instinctively thought it was thundering. The little girl was frightened and thought the Eagle God was angry, so she hurriedly found a rock to hide.

At this time, more than 300 soldiers carrying rifles on the Thor were lined up, and they were all excited as tigers about to leave the cage and return to the mountain.

When everyone lined up to report the number, an officer in the North Navy major uniform raised the horn in his hand and shouted to all the soldiers:

"This battle is the first battle you have played for Beihai Town! You must remember that you are now soldiers of the North Navy Overseas Corps! You must always keep in mind the discipline of the North Navy!"

Hearing the officer's words, more than 300 former Eight Banners and Green Camp soldiers on the deck unconsciously raised their chests. Almost all of these people were converted Qing prisoners of war, one-third of them were Eight Banners soldiers. Some were captured after the Battle of Ningguta, some were captured in the Battle of Hunchun, all of them had at least two years of labor and education on Kuye Island, and then joined the Overseas Corps of the North Navy.

The main task of establishing this army is to take over the other side of the ocean for occupation and development. To put it bluntly, it is to compete with the Spanish for territory. Although it is called a corps, the current size of the troops is only more than 500, and the number of people will be increased in the future.

Considering that the North American continental bears and wolves were very high in this year, in addition to the "Type 1790 firing rifle" and 12-pound cannon, it is also equipped with a part of the "1894 leverage rifle" copied by the Beihai Town Arsenal. Although the effective range of this gun is only 100 meters, it is used because it uses a .357-caliber Magnum bullet, which is powerful enough to kill a beast with one shot.

The officer continued: "I repeat again that after everyone goes ashore, we must obey the command. Our first goal is to seize the fort! Then we will capture the fort. Remember! No innocence is allowed, no bullying women are allowed, especially no fire! Violators will be dealt with by military law!"

"Yes!" The voices of more than 300 people on the deck were clamoring.

"Now, start boarding in the order of rows, start with the first row!"
Chapter completed!