AMAZON QUEEN - アマゾンの女王
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60 W, 20 S - ATLANTIC DASH 60 W, 30 S - AMAZON アトランティックダッシュ - アマゾン
...ジョン・ストームは、1年ほど前にアステカ人の頑強な性質を実証する実験を報じたニュース放送を思い出した。また、アマゾン川沿いのさまざまな場所で、多くの原住民を対象にそうした研究が行われた。勘の鋭さで有名な彼は、エリザベス・スワン号が運んでくれる限りの速さでロンドンから大西洋を横断しようと出発した。記者はメディアの知り合い、チャーリー・テンプルだったと彼は思い出した。また、奇妙なことに、この研究は麻薬王とつながりがあると噂されている地元の複合企業から匿名で資金提供されていたことも思い出した。もし間違っていたとしても、DNAを収集してコレクションを完成させるつもりだ。もし正しかったとしても、それがどこにつながるかはよくわからないが、映画『拳で掴む金』でクリント・イーストウッドが言った「...
ほんのわずかな情報で人の命が左右されることもある」という言葉は正しかった。ストームは西部劇が大好きだった。
「聞いて」とジョンは言った。「南米まで半分くらい来た。1年くらい前に書いた作品を覚えてる?」 長い沈黙が続き、ジョンは口を開かざるを得なかった。「チャーリー、まだそこにいるの?」
「これでリラックスするべきだ」 「そうだ」ダンは困ったような表情でうなずいた。
John Storm recalled news broadcasts a year or so back reporting experiments to demonstrate the hardy elements of the Aztecs and that such research was conducted on a number of natives at various locations along the
Amazon
River. Famous for his hunches he set out from London to cross the Atlantic as fast as the
Elizabeth
Swann could take him. He recalled the reporter was their media acquaintance;
Charley
Temple. He also remembered that rather strangely this research had been funded anonymously by a local conglomerate rumoured to have connections with drug barons. If he was wrong he’d still collect some DNA to complete his collection. If he was
right, he wasn’t quite sure where that would lead, but Clint Eastwood was right when he said:
“... A man’s life can depend on a mere scrap of information,” in the film
'A Fist Full of Dollars.' Storm loved a good western.
“We’re off to South America for a few days. I think you’ll find it interesting.”
“Too right blue,” said Dan and he also started carrying the remaining boxes aboard with the enthusiasm of a schoolboy for a camping holiday.
Dan had no idea why he'd find it more than usually interesting.
Dan checked the readings. “Should be okay. What’s she doing on this gig?”
“Maybe it should be the other way round. What are we doing on her gig?”
Dan looked suitably puzzled and listened for clues. John entered Charley’s number and waited. He was just about to hang up, when Charley answered. “Is that you John? I’m in the gym,” she said trying to catch her breath. Charley was indeed in the middle of a five mile jog at level 8 on a running machine. She’d ignored the call to begin with, intent on beating her best time, but eventually gave in to curiosity.
“Listen,” said John, “We’re half way to south America. Do you remember that piece you did about a year ago?” There was a long silence, forcing John to speak. “Are you still there Charley?”
“Remember it. I can’t get it out of my mind.”
"Really, why is that,” asked John? his curiosity roused.
“If we’re talking about the same thing, you’ll probably be headed inland up a very long river?”
“You’re on the money penny, but why is this so memorable?”
“Because of what I found and rumours of latent plans for world domination from last century. Steve thought I was losing it. You may think that too.”
“Can you send us what you’ve got?”
“It’s complicated. If you’re serious about this, I’m okay to meet you, if you’ll share quid pro quo.”
“Quid pro quo and hush, hush?” offered John.
“Sounds like a deal, I need a break anyway.”
“Charley you’re a marvel. Thanks. I’ll meet you at Manaus?”
“Spot on, almost. It's just before Manaus. I'll send you the coordinates."
"You can’t miss us, next week then my treat. What will you be wearing?”
Charley laughed and hung up. Four days later they were closing on the Leeward Islands, when the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. One minute the sky was clear and calm, the next the wind picked up and skies darkened. The sea was whipped up into a frenzy of disturbed waves as the winds gusted to 80 miles an hour.
Hal chimed in, "Hi guys, I don't want to spoil things, but thought you should know the pressure is dropping rapidly, meaning high winds and heavy seas."
"Can't be," said John, looking at Dan. Who shrugged, also taken aback.
The sky turned ominously dark grey in colour as the Swann took a pounding from waves reaching forty feet, which had minutes before been just 5 feet.
All this came out of nowhere, the mariners worst fear. The instruments had not given any clue
as to what was in store from them.
Hal had been on sentry duty and gave them a good bit of warning. But even
so, had not
been able to avoid the tropical conditions, which was of itself rather puzzling and something to think on later.
There was no need for an answer and Storm didn’t wait for one; both men leapt into action. Dan felt the warning from the violent rising and falling of the
Swann, which he’d only felt once before on the east coast of Australia, but not as bad as this. Storm by name,
Storm by nature, Dan thought to himself as he braved the wind from the aft helm position, lashed by driving sea spray. He
flooded the pontoons, such that the raised hull was now in the water. In
this mode the Swann became almost invisible to radar, emulating a stealth
vessel. It was possible to make the ship completely transparent to radar,
but not in hurricane conditions.
"I'd have done all of that if you'd let me," chimed in Hal, effecting an upset tone.
John
and Dan smiled.
“That’ll teach us to relax.”
“Yup,” nodded Dan, with a bothered look on his face.
“What’s troubling thee mate,” asked
John. It wasn’t often that Dan looked worried about anything.
ジョンはまだこの状況に耐えられなかった。彼はソーラートニック™を飲み、サンドイッチをつまんでむさぼり食った後、指揮官席に着き、バラストタンクの空気をもっと抜いてスワン号をさらに海に沈めようとした。彼らは確かにコースを外れてバミューダトライアングルに流されていた。ジョンが計器類をスキャンすると、奇妙な動きをしていた。外の天候が悪化するにつれ、風速が増してスクリーンに塩水しぶきがかかり、ワイパーを全速力で回しても視界はほとんどゼロだった。気象センサーは何も受信せず、「キャプテン・ネモ」は意味をなすほど長い間何も表示しなかった。
John wasn’t yet up to this. He cracked a
Solar Tonic™ and grabbed a sandwich, which he wolfed down, then took the command seat and set about lowering the
Swann even further into the ocean by venting more ballast tank. They were indeed being blown off course into the
Bermuda
Triangle. John scanned the instruments and they were acting strangely. As the weather outside deteriorated the wind speed increased lashing their screens with salt spray so visibility was close to nothing, even with the wipers at full pace. The
weather sensors were not receiving anything and ‘Captain
Nemo’ refused to display anything for long enough to make sense.
“Blimey,” said Dan “beats the wall of death hands down.”
John was thinking the same thing. It was like riding a bucking bronco. Both men came out of their chairs simultaneously, and both re-adjusted their belts ………
THE ELIZABETH SWANN NAVIGATES THE AMAZON - エリザベス・スワン号がアマゾンを航海
>>>地球上には巨大な川がたくさんありますが、アマゾン川は水量で言えば間違いなく最大の流域で、コンゴ川、オリノコ川、揚子江、パラナ川、ブラマプトラ川、黄エニセイ川、ガンジス川、ミシシッピ川がそれに続きます。伝説から予想される順序ではないかもしれません。ナイル川は地中海に流れ込む
4,150
マイルで最長の川です。アマゾンの名前は「大蛇」インハ・アラマコに由来しています。基本的に、長く蛇行する川です。
There are a lot of giant
rivers on
planet Earth, but the Amazon is easily the largest expanse of moving
water by volume, followed by the
Congo, Orinoco,
Yangtze, Parana, Brahmaputra, Yellow Yenisei, Ganges and
Mississippi. Not perhaps the order one would expect from legend. The
Nile is the longest river at 4,150 miles flowing into the
Mediterranean. The
Amazon name derives from ‘Great Snake’ Inha Aramaco. Basically, as long
snaking river.
"Thank heavens the Swann doesn’t need fuel. John turned to Dan." He’d been pushing his traveling companion all the way across the Atlantic. Dan looked tired.
“Partner, I know the scenery is irresistible, but you’d better get your head down. We’re meeting Charley up river at the airport. I’ll take the next six. Okay?”
Rivers need considerably more careful navigation skill than the open ocean. Although it is possible to plot a course on the autopilot with the accuracy of modern GPS receivers, in practice it takes so many waypoints, it’s simpler to steer manually.
"I
can manage that quite easily," said Hal,
in a voice of feigned indignation.
“You win skip,” said Dan secretly happy at the opportunity. He left the com to turn in.
川は終盤に氾濫原を横切って幅が広がり、視界が妨げられない一時的な生息地を作り出します。ハイブリッド三胴船が川を遡ると、川岸には植物が生え、わずか2日間の航海で背の高い灌木やジャングルに変わりました。彼らは交代で寝台に泊まりながら、700マイルを移動しました。実験として、ジョンは次の500マイルのウェイポイントを入力しました。スワンには、同サイズの他の船に比べて独自の利点がいくつかありました。機器は他の船のシステムよりもよく統合されており、より感度の高い機器を使用した結果は印象的でした。この小型船のソナーは、数十億ドルもするほとんどの原子力潜水艦よりも高性能でした。数マイル離れた潜水艦の推進システムを特定したり、浅い川の水域の障害物を確認したりするために使用できます。早期警報システムとして設定され、コンピューターの自動操縦プログラムに入力されたエリザベス スワン号は、DGPS
が何らかの理由で地図の座標と連動せず、ネモ船長を混乱させた場合でも、浅瀬を避けて川岸から離れながら上流へ進むことができました。
The river broadens in its final stages across the floodplains to create temporary habitats where the view is unimpeded. As the
hybrid trimaran cruised upriver, vegetation sprang up on the banks, turning into tall shrubs and jungle in just two days sailing. They’d covered 700 miles taking it in turns to crash their bunks. As an experiment John had input waypoints for the next 500 miles.
The Swann
had some unique advantages over other vessels of her size. The instruments were integrated better than other boat systems, and with more sensitive equipment the results were impressive. The sonar
on this small ship was more sophisticated than on most nuclear submarines
costing billions of dollars. It could be used to identify the propulsion system on a submarine several miles away, or it could be used to see obstructions in shallow river waters. Set up as an early warning system and fed into a computer autopilot program, the
Elizabeth Swann could wend its way upstream, avoiding shallows and keep away from the river banks, should the
DGPS for any reason not tie in with the map coordinates, such as to confuse Captain
Nemo.
Charley had seen the films, The Boys From Brazil, and The Bourne Identity, so had conjured up all manner of theories, based on the runner her reporter friend, Steve Green, had asked her to research. She had a while to pass, waiting for that laggard John Storm and his chum Dan Hawk, so thought to do a little detective work. Charley asked about in some of the outlying villages, affecting the air of a lost explorer.
Only a few of the native Amazonians spoke few enough words of English to converse. The mature tribes people were most assuredly friendly, but clammed up with the mentioned of soldiers. And just walked away, arms waving wildly, when she asked if they knew any German settlers in the locality.
Finally a little girl playing by a stream volunteered a vague direction, after catching sight of a candy bar. Charley guessed the real compass heading, after the girl aimed her hand in one direction upriver, as a reflex, then hastily re-adjusted ninety degrees inland, effecting her broadest smile, not looking her in the eye.
The exchange completed, Charley aimed as indicated, but once out of sight, changed course, and was she glad she followed that hunch.
Meantime, John and Dan had docked suitably off to one side of what appeared to be the somewhat rickety main terminal, to remain as inconspicuous as possible.
"We're up for meeting Jack Mason somewhere along the trail."
Don't you mean Jack will catch up with us when we've taken the heat," said Dan wryly.
John nodded. It seemed the CIA's calling card on his watch. But then, at least they took the trouble to join the party occasionally. More than could be said of MI6, or Blue Shield.
Hal chimed in, "Charley is heading upriver, some twelve hundred meters north-west."
"How does he know that?" said Dan to John.
"Elementary my dear Watson. Calculating molecule dispersal rate from her perfume, against wind direction - probability. But most simply of all, from her iphone and smart-watch gps triangulation - I imagine."
"Both. Well deduced Holmes," Hal responded. "You'd best get a move on. Charley is now almost stationary, possibly meaning that she has found something."
"Or, is resting," said Dan.
"Charley. Resting?" John scoffed.
"John, if you walk briskly, or jog, you can be there in seven to ten minutes. I'd consider jogging. It might be prudent to take a couple of tazers?"
"Too right, thanks Hal. Look after Elizabeth while we're out. Come on Dan, follow me."
John and Dan set off along the trail Charley had taken. It was easy to follow. But they could track her smart watch if they got lost.
The going was tough, but they reached a group of buildings blending into the jungle, some fifteen hundred yards north-west of the where they'd docked.
Noises were coming from one of the buildings.
On the return trip to the Mediterranean, the Elizabeth Swann passes through the Straits of Gibraltar
PROLOGUE INNER CIRCLE OF SIX - Nazi funded medical human research laboratories Joseph Mengele's Fourth Reich escape to Brazil reserve plan. CHAPTER 1. THE POISON ASP - Pharaoh Queen Cleopatra takes her own life in a suicide pact with Mark Antony CHAPTER 2. WRATH OF THE GODS - The destruction of Thonis and Alexandria 365 AD CHAPTER 3. NEW WORLD ORDER - A Neo-Nazi plan to regenerate Aryan supremacy CHAPTER 4. CYBERCORE GENETICA - Nano computer technology is purchased at an auction by a religious sect. CHAPTER 5. INCUBUS - Italian scientist Franco Francisco invents a cloning machine and is head hunted by Neuwelt Rittertum CHAPTER 6. SPLICE - Klaus and Eva Kolreuter's search for everlasting life, the fountain of youth CHAPTER 7. TREMORS - Cleopatra's tomb lay lost for centuries. Until a shift in the tectonic plates triggered a tremor off the coast of Alexandria. CHAPTER 8. PANAMANIAN RUNNING MAN - Backpacker Majorie Boyle's Blog features Panama running at incredible speed CHAPTER 9. THE AMAZON - The largest river by discharge volume, 2nd longest after the Nile CHAPTER 10. TOMB RAIDERS - Safiya Sabuka and Musa Bomani dive among sifting sands to discover precious artifacts and golden treasures. CHAPTER 11. SCOTLAND YARD - Metropolitan police headquarters in London, Harold Holland, Chief Constable CHAPTER 12. OPERATION ALEXANDRIA - Neo-Nazi occultists recover Cleopatra's sarcophagus from underwater tomb near Palace. CHAPTER 13. KIDNAP - Charley is taken prisoner by Neuwelt Rittertum near Manaus, along the Amazon River CHAPTER 14. UNESCO - Catholic Church fear grave desecration heritage theft, asks agencies for help. Interpol issue Red Notice. CHAPTER 15. REPLICANT - The Society reproduce Cleopatra using Francisco's RepliVator™, uploading synapse sequence and implanted memories. CHAPTER 16. FULL STEAM AHEAD - Storm speeds to Thonis, then uses the Swann's AI sensors and the Ark database to find tomb has been plundered. CHAPTER 17. RITUAL FERTILIZATION - The Baron prepares a drugged Cleopatra for ceremonial impregnation. CHAPTER 18. SANCTUM INTERRUPTUS - John finds secret Nazi hideout near Alexandria, disturbs ritual - rescues Cleopatra, arresting conspirators. CHAPTER 19. THE CHOSEN ONE - The reincarnated Cleopatra falls for her rescuer. John comes under her spell, despite her being a replicant. CHAPTER 20. MILITARY INTERVENTION - The military detain Cleopatra to appease stakeholders, despite media & medical protests. Storm distraught. CHAPTER 21. DÉJÀ VU - History repeats itself, military lock up technology as gross violation of human rights, John left disillusioned: FINALE FOR NOW
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