What is the mystery of cannibal island?

In this modern voyage, all the crew members are not the characters in the story. The ship was built on the Persian Gulf coast, named "Sougar" (it is said that Sougar is the birthplace of Sinbad), and its crew are all Arabs from the Emirate of Oman. The sailing date of this ship is 1980, 165438+ 10, and it was commanded by an Englishman named Chevron. He specially verified all kinds of things in ancient legends through field tests to prove their authenticity.

Three years before this voyage, the knight sailed from Ireland to New Zealand on a boat 1 1 meter long made of wood and leather, which proved that an Irish monk Saint Brendan could take a similar boat in the 6th century and reach North America about 1000 before Columbus. This time, Xue Fulin thought that the legend of Sinbad was probably conceived according to the practical experience of Arab navigators from the 8th century to 1 1 century. Therefore, he imitated ancient laws to build this wooden boat and planned to take it to distant places in Asia. He decided to observe this part of the world through the eyes of medieval sailors along the way and see what their experiences were like, which could make people exaggerate when writing about Sinbad's magical journey and become a thrilling story.

Although the sailboat suffered from insect pests, salt corrosion and tropical storms, the hand-built "Sougar" was still safe and sound after sailing for seven months, and the voyage from Oman to Guangzhou, China exceeded 9,000 kilometers. The ancient shipbuilding technology followed by Xue Fulin seems to be better than some modern or modern shipbuilding technologies. For example, the exterior of the hull is protected by a waterproof mixture of resin and lime, while the interior is only maintained by rubbing coconut fiber rope with vegetable oil. In this way, even if the ship maggots can bite through the strongest boards and become the nemesis of tropical ships in the later period, they will not cause great damage to the hull of Sougar. So the main purpose of this voyage was achieved, because Xue Fulin found some exciting connections between Sinbad's story and the real world during the voyage.

For example, on his seventh voyage, Sinbad was sold by pirates to an ivory merchant as a slave. Later, he was sent by an ivory merchant to work in a forest and found an elephant tomb. Although there are unconfirmed reports that an elephant was seen moving the bones of another elephant to an unknown place, until today, no one really knows the whereabouts of a dead or dying elephant, because few people have found the elephant's body. Therefore, this kind of heavy object is likely to have a very special collective hiding place. Although we can't know the exact location of the elephant tomb, this understanding may be the basis of Sinbad's story.