Chapter 174 Chapter Twenty-Five

How Pagoda came to Longevity Island after the storm At this time, our group abandoned the boat and landed on an island called Changshou Island. The people on the island treated us very well.An elderly old birthday man (that's what they call the chief) wanted to invite Paguguai to have a rest and eat something in the official building in their city.But the Pagoda would not leave the quay until all those on board had disembarked.When everything was ready, he asked everyone to change their clothes and move the food on the boat to the shore for all the people on board to enjoy.His words were immediately followed.God knows how rich the wine and meat are.Local people also sent a lot of food.The men of Pagoda gave them what they had brought, and more.Of course their things suffered some losses in the storm.After dinner, Pagoda invited everyone to repair the ship, and everyone worked very hard.The repairs went well, for all the inhabitants of the island were carpenters, like the craftsmen you see in the arsenal in Venice.Only three ports and ten parishes are inhabited on this large island, and the rest is covered with tall woods and moors, not unlike the wooded regions of the Ardennes.

At our request, the old birthday star showed us the places of interest and historic sites on the island.In the shady and uninhabited forest, we visited the ruins of several ancient temples, several monuments, pyramids, ancient buildings and tombs, with all kinds of writing and inscriptions, some hieroglyphs, some Iraqi. Onia script, as well as Arabic, Moorish, Slavic and so on.Ebisdemon copied them down carefully one by one.Then Panurge said to Brother John: "This is Longevity Island. The word 'longevity' means 'long life' in Greek, referring to how long a person lives."

"What do you mean?" said Friar John. "Do you want me to change its name? I wasn't here when it was named." Banurge said: "I tell you, that's where I thought the name 'bustard' came from. 'Buddhist' can only be done by older people, and young people are suitable for butt work.The origin and origin of the Crane Island in Paris may be here.Let's go, let's go to hook mussels ③. " The old man asked in Ionian how and by what means Paguguay came to their port in such a dreadful tempest.Paiguguay replied that the Almighty Savior had seen their sincerity, and that they were traveling neither for money nor for profit.The only purpose of their voyages is to earnestly want to see, learn, understand, ask for the revelation of the vase, and want to get the oracle of the vase for a question raised by one of them.Yet they met with great difficulty, and risked capsizing.Then he asked the old birthday boy why this kind of storm is caused, and whether there are often hurricanes on the sea near the island, like the rapids of St. Matthew on the ocean, like the Strait of Momsong, like Sataria in the Mediterranean Sea The Gulf ⑥, the port of Mont Argentin ①, Bombino ②, Cape Melia in Laconia ③, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Strait of Messina ④ and so on.

① "Longevity" in the original text Macroeons comes from the Greek Makpaiwr, which means "long life". ② Ardennes: The Dolin Plateau at the junction of northern France and Belgium. ① "Maquerelle" has a similar pronunciation to "longevity", and waquerelle also means "mackerel". ② Crane Island: a brothel district in Paris. ③ The original text here is: "Oysters without shells." ④ "St. Matthew's Rapids" in the Gulf of Brittany. ⑤ Momsong Strait: The strait between the entrance of the Charente River in western France and the island of Oleron.

⑥ Sataria Bay: Adalia in Bonfilia, Asia Minor. ① Port of Montalgentang: That is, the port of Telamona in Toshigan. ② Bambino: Italian port, opposite Elba Island. ③ Cape Meria: In the south of Laconia. ④ Messina Strait: Between Italy and Sicily.