Dampier no Oishii Bouken - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - Charting the Uncharted

[MangaDex]

 

[AgniZet]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[OWMWO]

A PIRATE ship with a cook who use PEPPER and vinegar and know how to fillet a SHARK???
Time to shut brain and enjoy the spongebob logic.

 

[donpom]

Thank you for the chapter! Very neatly done and easy to read 😄

I've been looking forward to reading this series for a while. TSoup does historical fiction in such a fun way. I'm really glad to see the rough-n-tumble pirates like and respect Dampier even though he's a bit of a dandy. But I guess it makes sense that he's earned their respect with his curiosity and wits.

 

[ShizayaTranslation]

Now this is epic

 

[boson__]

Great stuff for your first time scanlation! Keep up the good work, looking forward to more

 

[sjiveru]

this seems just as interesting as Jaadugar with hopefully much less misery. followed!

 

[wotta57]

Thanks for picking this up

Sidenote but I skimmed through Dampier's autobiography, and it turns out the scene with the shark actually happened. So that's neat.

I have found [sucking-fish] sticking to a shark after it was hauled in on the deck, though a shark is so strong and boisterous a fish, and throws about him so vehemently for half an hour together, it may be, when caught, that did not the sucking-fish stick at no ordinary rate, it must needs be cast off by so much violence. It is usual also to see them sticking to turtle, to any old trees, planks, or the like, that lie driven at sea. Any knobs or inequalities at a ship's bottom are a great hindrance to the swiftness of its sailing; and 10 or 12 of these sticking to it must needs retard it as much, in a manner, as if its bottom were foul. So that I am inclined to think that this fish is the remora, of which the ancients tell such stories; if it be not I know no other that is, and I leave the reader to judge. I have seen of these sucking-fishes in great plenty in the Bay of Campeachy and in all the sea between that and the coast of Caracas, as about those islands particularly I have lately described, Los Roques, Blanco, Tortugas, etc. They have no scales, and are very good meat.

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Nice, interesting premise and setting.