"Uh, alright! The Samurai promised!… We've made an agreement, we must go to the Far North Snow Plains to get truly excellent fox and sable furs, so I can give the temple an explanation!"
"Hmm… then let's continue northward! I also have the family head's instruction to seek the sand gold held by the Far North tribes…"
At the end of May, the Ocean-Blocking Ship passed the northernmost point of the Kutadai Peninsula, truly entering the frigid North Sea. Along the coast, they sought out small nomadic tribes, engaging in relatively safe barter trade.
In early June, they exchanged for two female Yakut snow horses from a nomadic Shandan Saharan group. These snow horses stood about 1.3 meters tall at the shoulder, though not as tall as the 1.5-meter Jurchen stallion, they far surpassed the barely over 1-meter horses of Kyushu in Wa Country.
