Antangil: Page 109

[English Translation]

                   of Antangil. Second Book.             109

of the war, as we have said above, being so diverse, that it is impossible to give a rules to the ordinances of battles, if practice & good judgment do not demonstrate it. However, they almost always retain these general precepts, never changing them much, unless they are forced to, especially since the order is very good, & full of beautiful & artificial considerations & happy events, losing only a few battles: but almost always gloriously overcoming the enemy.
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Of the sea armies & sea crews.

CHAP.   XV.[1]
       Having treated of the land armies, we will now pass to the naval ones.
       Know then that the Council having wished to have in hand not only the land armies, but also the naval ones, forbade the manufacture of any vessels in any of the harbors & ports of the Kingdom, except in that of the capital city of Sangil, where for this occasion a large

1. Should read "Chap. XIV".

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