Part 6 --Artuva--

''"Bye bye old storm john" A crewman said in a thick Valrentan accent. The storm weakened the ship's hull, so the carpenter was below deck for a long time. "I think it's another food break, yeah, well past that time, the moon is just 4 hours away from being at the top of the sky" Dad said. "I guess it's those tasteless biskets and sour meat" Amelia muttered. As we got our food, I saw a couple of crewmen dipping hard biskets in rum barrels. I tried to do the same, when the crewmem finished their biskets, I dipped the bisket in the rum barrels. It tasted a bit better and the bisket was softened. I thought I'll go drunk, but that alcohol was very little in amount for anything like that to happen. I still didn't like it because the rum burnt my tongue. I took the salted meat, and tried to remove as much of the salt, I was successful on the first layer, but in the second layer, the salt was stuck to the meat as if it where hair roots of the meat, I gave up and ate the flesh, it didn't taste very well because of the pounds of salt. I drank my water and left a little too early from the food break. I was really sleepy then so I went to bed early.''

''The next morning I woke up early, at almost 6! I went outside thinking we reached Artuva, and as always, NO. I asked dad with slight frustration "When we'll reach Artuva". Dad replied "Artuva is really close" "How close?" Questioned I. "About 5 miles" Dad answered. Now the wind was moving towards the middle of Valereena and Marcusburg - A country just west of Valereena-, which mean't it would slow the ship down. Which mean't we would probably be stuck in the sea for over an hour or something near to an hour.''

''It was really boring, so I went back in the cabin and tried to entertain myself by looking at the map. And it was the map of the Verilindorean Isles, what we already learnt in geography class in school. I spent a few minutes thinking what to do, and then something popped in my head. Drawing. There was a lot of paper that was lying around in the cabin for no reason at all. And 3 bottles of ink plus a quill pen. So I then sat on a chair, put the paper on the desk and with a quill and an ink bottle I drew a rat laying an egg on an elephant's back. That drawing really deserves to be in an art museum. It'd probably be sold for a hundred doubloons at least.''

''I walked outside to see if we reached Artuva yet. I went to the bow and saw that Artuva was really close. I called dad "Come here Dad, Artuva is so close" "Now that it's this close, you and others must lower the anchor when the boatswain says to do" Dad said to me. I went to the anchor wheel waited for the order. I saw some riggers raising the sails up, and slowing the ship down. "Down she goes" The boatswain ordered. We pushed the anchor wheel, and lowered the anchor down. the ship stopped. We where at Artuva, docked at port. A man came unto our ship and asked dad about something. Dad gave him a few shillings and showed his passport, and we where now legally in Artuva.''

''"Everyone sell the cotton and sugar" Dad ordered. The shantyman came and sang a shanty, while me and the other sailors where rolling the cotton down and carrying the sugar. The ones who didn't sing with the shantyman went to the merchants sold it''

"Come roll that cotton, roll it down,"

"Oh, roll the cotton down"

"Come sell the sugar bags, carry them down."

"Oh, roll the cotton down."

"I thought I heard our captain say:"

"Oh, sell the sugar down"

"Or else he'd sail away to Silver Bay"

"Oh, sell the sugar down."

"A doubloon day is a merchant pay,"

"Oh, roll the cotton down"

"A doubloon day is a merchant's day,"

"Oh, roll the cotton down"

"Sell the cargo, it'll make a day"

"Oh, roll the cargo down"

"Then celebrate, Way Hay!"

"Oh, roll the cargo down."

''"How much is it" Dad asked a crewman. "125 doubloons, Captain" He answered. "That's a lot of money, why is it that much, though" Dad questioned. "Sir it's because that sugar is expensive in Hertisburg, the port we docked at" He replied to Dad's question. "Oh that's why, I'll be sharing 75 doubloons to the crew for their hard work this journey" Dad said. After we sold the cotton and sugar, we went back to the ship. "It seems now the wind is moving southwards, captain" the Quartermaster said. "Ah yes, finally" Dad happily said. "Let's buy some cargo, 32 of them. We'll trade to Valereena" Dad ordered with a strong voice. Some crewmen went down to the docks, walked to the merchants, and bought some cargo. It took a while for them to do it, so more crewmen went there to help them. They finally came back with a lot of cargo. The crewmen came and told to dad what they've bought "Captain, we've got 12 raw rice barrels, 8 boxes of dried chilli, 10 barrels of tea leaves, 7 tobacco bags and 10 boxes of paper" "That's 47 cargo, 15 more than what we've bought in our previous 2 journeys, our ship will be overweight" Amelia silently said to Dad. "Amelia, paper, tea leaves and dried chilli are light" Dad answered. Amelia nodded expressing "Understood". "Raise the anchor, turn the ship and lower the sails, we are heading southwards to Valereena" Dad ordered the crew. Everyone did their job, I decided to help the riggers. As the helmer turned the ship, the anchor was raised, as the anchor was raises, we lowered the sails, and we were sailing. Meanwhile a crewman got drunk, so the crew sang a shanty, while the shantyman had his line in the shanty. The crew sang about the drunken sailor and the shantyman sang about the ship setting sail.''

"What will we do with the drunken sailor"

"What will we do with the drunken sailor"

"What will we do with the drunken sailor"

"Early in the morning!"

"Way hay and up she rises"

"Way hay and up she rises"

"Way hay and up she rises"

"Early in the morning!"

"Shave his belly with a rusty razor"

"Shave his belly with a rusty razor"

"Shave his belly with a rusty razor"

"Early in the morning"

"Way hay and up she rises"

"Way hay and up she rises"

"Way hay and up she rises"

"Early in the morning!"

"We'll put him in a long boat til' he's sober"

"Put him in a long boat til' he's sober"

"Put him in a long boat til' he's sober"

"Early in the morning"

"Way hay and up she rises"

"Way hay and up she rises"

"Way hay and up she rises"

"Early in the morning!"

"Stick him to a barrel with a rope on him"

"Stick him to a barrel with a rope on him"

"Stick him to a barrel with a rope on him"

"Early in the morning"

"Way hay and up she rises"

"Way hay and up she rises"

"Way hay and up she rises"

"Early in the morning!"

"That's what we'll do with the drunken sailor"

"That's what we'll do with the drunken sailor"

"Thats what we'll do with the drunken sailor"

"Early in the morning"