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BOOK  ONE

DEALING  WITH  THE

DESCRIPTION  OF  THE

great & admirable King–
dom of Antangil.

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Of the situation of the Kingdom of Antangil, with its borders

CHAP. I.

     The great & flourishing Kingdom of Antangil, hitherto unknown to ancient Historians & Cosmographers, but nevertheless very famous in the regions of China, Taprobane[1] & Java, is situated to the south of the grand Jave.[2] Its length extends six degrees from the Tropic of Capricorn, & the West towards the Antarctic Pole[3] up to the 50th degree, which would be 22 degrees in all, extending to three hundred & thirty leagues;[4] Its width is a little less than two hundred, such that it is
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1. Taprobane was a name used by ancient western cartographers to describe an island in the Indian Ocean thought by most modern historians to represent Sri Lanka. However, at the time Antangil was authored most cartographers believed Taprobane was the ancient name for Sumatra, and it appears this is also what the author of Antangil believed.

2. SEE the world map of world map by Abraham Ortelius. The author of Antangil, speaking of himself, tells the reader that he "arrived at "Bandan in the year 1598, principal city of 'la grande Iave'..." However, the then flourishing City of Banten was not located on what most map makers depicted as " Jave la Grande", as this was more or less a fanciful creation of early map makers similar to that of "Terra Australis", or the imagined "Great South Land" depicted on many of these early maps. For more information on the early map depictions of these imagined lands SEE, JAVE LA GRANDE, A PART OF TERRA AUSTRALIS?

3. The South Pole

4. There are varying distances that constitute a league. A French league at different times measured between 2.02 to 2.91 miles. Other nations would have had their own definitions.
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