Chapter 17 Lapland

The eagle Gorgo, carrying Nils on his back, flew forward at high speed like chasing the wind and lightning. "Now we have entered the territory of Lapland." Gorgo said to the boy.The boy leaned forward to have a look at the scene of the place he had heard of so many times. But he was disappointed to see only large forests and empty swamps.The forest follows the swamp, and the swamp follows the forest.The night here is as bright as the day.It must be night now, the boy thought, because the cranes were standing in the swamp and sleeping.The sun was due north, and the sun was shining straight on the boy's face.

"I must sleep now," said the boy, "or I shall fall off the eagle's back." Immediately Gorgo fell to the swamp, and the boy scrambled down, but Gorgo caught him immediately with his claws. "Sleep, Thumb! The sun is shining, and I'm not sleepy at all. I'm going to continue flying tonight." Eagle Gorgo said. They soared into the sky again, soaring in the sky, a deer stared at them curiously.Although the boy was uncomfortable hanging on the eagle's claws, he still fell asleep drowsily. When he woke up, he found himself lying at the bottom of a large canyon.He stood up and looked around.His eyes fell on the strange building made of pine branches on the cliff. "It must be a kind of eagle's nest, Gorgo..."

He didn't think about it, but took off the little hat on his head, waved it and cheered!He knew where Gorgo had taken him, the gorge where the eagles lived on the cliffs and the geese lived at the bottom.He has reached his destination!He would see Morton the gander and Akka and other traveling companions at once. The boy walked slowly forward to find his friends.There was silence throughout the valley.The sun had not yet reached the cliff, and Nils Hogelson knew it was still early in the morning, and the geese had not yet woken up.He stopped not far away, and smiled, because he saw a very moving scene—a big goose sleeping in a small nest on the ground, and a male goose standing beside him, he was also sleeping, but he stood so The purpose of approaching the female goose is obviously to immediately stand up and defend in case of danger.He didn't bother them, but continued on his way.

The boy saw many geese in many bushes, one by one, they did not belong to Niels's flock, but were foreign guests, but the mere sight of the geese made him so happy that he began to Hum a song. The boy looked into a bush and finally saw a pair of wild geese he was familiar with.The one brooding must have been Nelia, and the gander standing beside her was Kerme.yes!It must be them, they can't be mistaken.The boy wanted to wake them up, but he put them to sleep anyway, and walked on by himself. In the next bush he saw Vissy and Cousy, and not far from them he spotted Yaksi and Kaksi.The four geese were sleeping, and the boy walked past them without waking them.

He walked near the next bush, and he seemed to see something shining white in the bush, and his heart was pounding in his chest with excitement.That's right, as expected, Deng Fen was laying down and incubating her eggs beautifully, with a white gander standing beside her.It seemed to the boy that the gander, though still asleep, looked very proud that he could stand sentinel for his wife in the mountains of Lapland in the far north. The boy didn't wake the gander from his sleep, but continued to walk forward... Ah, look!On a knoll he found something that looked like gray grass.This is Aka from Daxue Mountain. She stands vigorously and looks around, as if she is guarding the whole valley.

"Hello, Aunt Aka!" cried the boy. "It is very good that you are not asleep. Please don't wake the other geese just now. I want to talk to you alone." The old lead goose ran down the hill and came to the boy. She first hugged him and shook him, then pecked him from top to bottom with her beak, and then shook him again.But she said nothing, for he asked her not to wake the other geese. Thumb kissed old Aunt Akka on both cheeks, and began to tell her how he had been taken to Skansen Park and held captive there. "Now I'm going to tell you about Smeer the Fox. He was put in a fox cage in Skansen Park," said the boy. He felt sorry. There were many other foxes in the big fox cage, and they lived happily, but Smir was always squatting, downcast, longing for freedom. I had many good friends there. One day, a Pulan Dog told me that a man came from a remote island in the ocean, and he wanted to buy foxes from Skansen, because the people on that island had exterminated the foxes, but the rats were a plague, and they wanted the foxes to return. I always After getting this information, I immediately ran to Smeer's cage and said to him: "Smeer, humans will come here tomorrow to pick up some foxes. Then you have to stand in front and find a way to get yourself caught. Then you will be free again!' He obeyed my advice, and now he is free to run about the island. What do you think of me doing this, Aunt Akka? It is according to your heart Bar?"

"Yes, I would do the same myself," said the lead goose. "You are satisfied with this matter," said the boy, "and now I must hear your opinion on one more matter. One day I saw Gorgo in Skansen, where he was imprisoned in He was in an eagle cage made of rebar and wire. He looked dejected and downcast. At first, I thought about sawing the wire and letting him out, but then I remembered that he was a dangerous robber, a bad bird eater. I didn't dare to let him out. What do you think, Aunt Akka? Am I right in thinking so?" "It's not right to think so, Nils," said Akka. "You must know that eagles are more proud and love freedom than other animals. After you have rested, we two, that is, you and me, will do it together." A trip, fly to the great prison of the bird, and rescue Gorgo."

"I think you would say that, Mrs. Aka," said the boy excitedly. "I can tell from your words that you still love this eagle that you have raised with great pains. If you want Give thanks to the man who brought me here on your back, and I think you'll see him on the very cliff where a poor and hopeless young eagle was found."