AN ADVENTURE ACROSS THE
ATLANTIC
Lindy Duncan
Day 1
King Morolda has gathered 205 of his best men. He
wants to expand his trading and wealth beyond Little
Silver and Markham Place. We have been on the boat
for about 4 hours. I’m Joe Perscute and I am the
captain on the boat. The seas are rough but I know we
can reach our destination. The three ships will be going
through Atlantic Ocean. Our destination is to discover
an unknown island in the Atlantic ocean. This will be
one of the hardest journeys that King Morolda and
Spain has ever taken on.
Day 11
The days are going by very slowly but we all still have hope the
work is getting harder because the seas are getting worse. I
hope all of the men make it back safely to there homes and
there families. But I know that might not happen, most
likely most of us will not make it home to Little Silver and
Spain.
Day 23
All of the crew members are getting frustrated with each other.
This is probably going to get worse. We are running out of
chickens and other stored foods. The seas are calming down.
There are been very little sights of scurvy but nothing major.
Some of the crew members are saying the saw a huge shark
and small sharks. This might become very good or really bad
journey.
Day 45
There have been 18 fights among the crew members. There was
no bad cuts though. The scurvy is hitting a lot of the crew
members. The scurvy has had 12 deaths which means there is
only 193 people at the most will come home to there lives and
families from this journey. It is towards the end of the day
now and I am sitting on the deck when all of the sudden I
hear boom! Pirates are attacking! We get our bombs and
shoot! We have a hit and sink there ship. We now only have
163 people on the two ships after that one sunk.
Day 63
We have been having the long dreadful days. This is just like
any other day. Ten more crew members die from scurvy. But
then we all hear land ho! All of the crew members rush to the
deck . As we all see the island we were looking for. We
stopped the boat and hoped into the smaller boats to go to
shore. We set up camp I am set up under a tree. We all
explore the island. Some of us find a fruit. It is a red yellow
color and a yellow inside. We also found a strange fish. It
was gray and thin but red on the inside. we are going to call
it a red fish. We also found a crop that we named small tree
because it looks a small tree.
Day 79
We have spent 6 days on this island. It has been rough but we
have only had 2 deaths on scurvy. We have gone on to name
the island Morolda Island. We will also head back on the
ships in 2 days. We will bring the fruit home to Little Silver
and have King Morolda II name the fruit. We all hope to
have a nice uneventful journey back home to Spain.
Day 86
We have been on the ship for 12 days. It has been very smooth.
The ships have only had 8 more deaths. Now we only have
154 people left on the two ships. We have calculated we
have about 30 more days left. But it might be more if there is
rough seas.
Day 101
We have been on the ship for a very long time. It has been a
little over 3 months and about 20 days. It has been a long
journey. We have had about 28 more deaths. This only leaves
us with 126 people left on the two ships. We all hope we get
there very soon.
Day 116
It is an early morning but by 12 o’clock we see the shore of
Spain. We all are happy to see our friends and family. King
Morolda is going to set up a trade center there. He will send
4 boats in the next year. He also renamed Morolda Island to
King Morolda II Island. We have come to realize that this
island is near the Isamas of Panama. We know this Island
as Key West. King Morolda has now named the fruit sun
fruit because of its yellow red color. We now know this fruit
as a mango. We now know the small tree as broccoli and the
fish as salmon.