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Having mature and experienced sailors is far from enough for a ship of the size of the Jackdaw.

"Sir, maybe your ship needs a qualified navigator, I think I'm competent enough!"

Chen Feng turned his head and saw that it was the yellow-haired Sacred Land who had been leading the way for him since the "Old Oak" tavern, talking.

"You can say that I was frivolous and unreliable in cheating and drinking by relying on hearsay stories in the tavern, but I want to say that my Sacred Land brother is definitely not a coward, and definitely not the kind of person who will escape!" The face was swearing.

"I used to hate spending the rest of my life as a shepherd, working for my parents, then marrying a local woman, having a few children, and being able to see my life for the rest of my life, I was scared when I thought about it."

"Becoming a pirate is one of my most yearning things. I have been waiting for a long time for this day, and I would like to help you, sir!"

Chen Feng stood in front of Sacred Land, who looked a little thin, and looked carefully, frowning slightly.

"What skills do you have?"

The shepherd Sacred Land immediately said: "I have a good sense of direction, and I am familiar with celestial phenomena. As long as I am here, whether it is on the sea or on land, I will not get lost."

Seeing Chen Feng standing still and still not making a statement, Sacred Land continued to add:

"Also, I have a lot of experience and have been to many places. With me, you can quickly learn about the local customs."

Chen Feng finally nodded and motioned Sacred Land to stand among the hired crowd.

Gibbs told Sacred Land on the side: "Remember, there are no idlers on the pirate ship. We will know if you are an excellent navigator!"

Sacred Land Yage was ecstatic: "Yes!"

So, now on the Jackdaw, the captain, first mate, sailor, and navigator are all available. The senior crew also has two key roles, one is a cook and the other is a doctor.

Although both Chen Feng himself can serve concurrently, as a captain, naturally he should not be so inferior.

What's more, during the voyage, I still have a lot of things to do, and it is impossible to be comprehensive and take care of everyone.

These two types of talents must still be prepared!

A chef is an indispensable character for traveling to sea, but it is quite scarce in the world of pirates.

Even on legendary ships such as the Black Pearl and Queen Anne’s Revenge, pirate chefs with professional cooking experience are hard to find.

Most of them don’t know anything about cooking except for stirring the soup in the pot and peeling potatoes.

It is quite common for pirates to go out to sea to eat raw food, because among them there is often no one who can boil a pot of water, and the food condition is often "unspeakable".

Although the recipe of oatmeal, beef, pork, peas, bread, and biscuits looted from navy ships sounds good, given that there was no such thing as a refrigerator in those days, these foods would become unrecognizable in a few weeks.

In addition, the meat on the ship has been over-cured, but after a long voyage, they will either become dry and hard, or they will be covered with maggots.

The sailors even joked about this: "Black-headed maggots taste cold, not as bitter as weevil."

As for moldy biscuits and smelly cheese, sailors’ daily meals are even more common. In the case of food shortages, seabirds, mice, and bed bugs are also candidates.

Before canned food became popular, the biscuits on board have always been an important part of the food on board, but the general preservation status is not optimistic.

But compared to fresh water, the preservation of food is fairly good.

Although they have been boiled before going to sea, they will quickly turn green and smelly and cause deadly dysentery in less than a month.

In the early stage of sailing, sailors can also distribute 4.5 liters of pale beer and about 250 ml of rum per day.

But after a few weeks of sailing, the beer had been drunk, and they had to face the foul-smelling and sticky fresh water in the wooden barrels.

In this case, they will blend the distributed rum with fresh water to cover up the smell.

Considering that rum is the only safe drink on board and can make sailors forget the unpleasantness in reality, it is not difficult to understand why rum is so popular at sea.

For pirates, rum is the best gift from heaven.

Also, don’t forget the fact that the use of fresh fruits to fight scurvy in the books of later generations was not discovered until 1753 by the Navy physician James Lind.

Before that, for example, in the years 1715-1525, known as the "Golden Age of Pirates," all crews on the ocean were still suffering from scurvy. At the same time, lingering around the crew are diseases caused by mice and various germs in the fresh water.

They turned the cabin of that time into a place full of "foul smell, resentment, fear, vomiting, fever, dysentery, headache, heat, tuberculosis, skin lumps, scurvy, and oral ulcers."

Therefore, the Jackdaw must also be equipped with a professional doctor.

Even the Royal Navy ships equipped with physicians are in similar condition.

After all, in the context of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" world, there is no disinfection and no narcotics here. It is precisely because of this that gangrene and infection are very common among seafarers.

Still having a crew member to survive in such an astonishing environment can only make people sigh the tenacity of vitality.

For those slave ships, the death rate of crew members on a trip is about the same as that of slaves.

When the treatment reaches this point, everyone can say that they are all on the same starting line. The comparison is luck and vitality.

It is a good result that half of the people survive in the end.

In order to ensure that there are enough manpower to move the ship, all ships at that time had to overload the crew for emergencies, but this also caused the original problems of poor sanitation and insufficient food to become worse.

If the merchant crews and pirates traveling in the Caribbean Sea are lucky enough to get ashore, at least they can get some food supplements.

But malaria, yellow fever, dysentery, smallpox, leprosy, plague and other old friends and new friends are still waiting for sailors on the shore.

Without a doctor, the Jackdaw’s future voyage would be a nightmare for the other crew members.

Chen Feng's gaze passed among the remaining sailors.

"Is there anyone here who is a cook or a doctor? There is still a shortage of cooks and doctors on my boat. Those who think they are qualified will go out immediately!"

As soon as the voice fell, a sailor stood up immediately.

I saw this person wearing a buttoned waistcoat, knee-length shorts, white stockings, unkempt, with a beard, and his eyes were slightly tired.

It seems that the temperament is indeed different from most vulgar ordinary sailors, obviously he has experienced a good education.

He raised his hand and said, "I, I recommend myself as a chef!"

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