[Abe Sargent]

A Friend Found

20 September, 1569 – We set up a colony in Sao Vicente. Sorry I misspelled it earlier, that’s the correct spelling. I send in more colonists.

1 November, 1569 – Janina and Salonica are no longer cores.

9 February, 1570 – Little Karoo is set up with colonists. I send in more and my explorer.

15 March, 1570 - Crimea and The Ottomans declared war upon Hungary. That country is dead.

29 June, 1570 Sao Vicente expands. I send in more colonists.

1 August, 1570 – My explorer has reached Little Karoo and then waited a few months to get repaired. I now send it out.

3 September, 1570 – Austria defeated Hungary, but no land changed hands.

25 September, 1570 – NSD: Western Arabian Sea, NLD: Socotra, Yemen

4 October, 1570 – NSD: Mascate Coast

9 October, 1570 – NSD: Gulf of Indus, NLD: Kutch, Vijayanagar. I offer them a free trade agreement. Kutch is also a COT.

15 October, 1570 – NSD: Straits fo Hormuz. NLD: Suhar (Persia) and Hormuz (Timurid)

23 October, 1570 – NSD: Persian Gulf

31 October, 1570 – NLD: Qawasim, Persian

5 November, 1570 – NLD: Sind, Vijayanagar (Vj)

12 November, 1570 – NSD: Golf of Gujurat, NLD: Dadra, Vj

17 November, 1570 - NSD: Laquedive Islands, NLD: Raichur Doab, VJ. A Portugese vessel is in these waters.

22 November, 1570 – NSD: Coast of Malabar, NLD: Malabar, Travanacore

27 November, 1570 – NSD: Comorin Cape

2 December, 1570 – RM: France, NSD: Coast of Coromandel, NLD: Tirichirapalli, VJ

7 December, 1570 – NSD: Coast of Orissa

I order my fleet to return but to explore a few more sea lanes on the way back.

12 December, 1570 – NLD: Madras, VJ

19 December, 1570 – NSD: Ceylon Sea, NLD: Jaffna, Korlaes (Pegu)

1 January, 1571 – I got two advisors that appeared in my realm. Both are level one. One adds naval and the other adds production.

I fire Murad Sokullu, the colonist making advisor now that I have my national idea and whatnot. I hire Evangelos Zorzi, the national scientist production maker. I hope that if my very aged government advisor is to die soon, that he does it this year, so I can hire this naval advisor before he goes into the general pool.

11 January, 1571 – The Teutonic Order declared war against Austria. I join said war but have interest in actually fighting.

8 February, 1571 – Little Karoo expands. I send in more colonists

20 March, 1571 – NLD: Inhambane, unclaimed IVORY

28 March, 1571 – Sao Vicente expanded. I order in more colonists.

11 April, 1571 – While our explorer was docking at Little Karoo, we discovered Great Karoo, an inland province behind us.

29 April, 1571 – RM: Castille

20 August, 1571 – Lithuania declared war against Crimea. The Ottomans joined Crimea.

25 December, 1571 – Sao Vicente expands.

I decide to stick with my best advisor who is getting long in the tooth, 64 years. He’s dying any day now, but he’s six times better than the naval advisor, which means that for every two months he lives, I get as much production than one year of the naval guy.

1 January, 1572 – Colonists are dispatched to Sao Vicente

I order out my explorer again.

7 February, 1572 – Little Karoo expanded. I order more colonists in.

10 March, 1572 – The Teutonic Order declared war upon Austira. I join them, but expect to fire no bullets.

16 April, 1572 – NSD: Ganges Delta, NLD: Chittagong, Bengala (Orissa).

20 April, 1572 – NSD: Aykab Bay, NLD: Arakon (Pegu)

25 April, 1572 – NSD: Irrawady Delta

30 April, 1572 – NSD: Mergui Archipelago

1 May, 1572 – I found a LITHUANIAN colony here in the spice isles. I kept getting land masses shown to me, and wondering what eastern power had been here for fifty years that I should get such a bounty of sea provinces here in the spice isles. It’s Lithuania!

This is great! Lithuania, like France before her, has maxed relations with us. I ask for military access and in a day, she agrees. I can use their colony in the Spice Islands for some serious explorations.