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Map of Antangil
Cities & Towns of Antangil
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Turtles & large Whales are there in great quantity, this being the most fish-abundant gulf of which one has yet heard. In addition to this, there are Conches, or sea eels of excessive size, like forty fathoms, & four or six in thickness, which play in the middle of the waves have overturned many boats & smaller vessels of medium size. As for the flying fish, they're very few, especially since they do not abandon the Equinoctial line so far away; however, as the sun returns to touch the Tropic, one sees them in greater quantity & catches a few. Of the land animals. CHAP. VI. The high Sarichees mountains that border this Kingdom towards the Antarctica Pole, are full of bears, both black & white, which exceed ten feet in length & six in thickness: Rongiferes,[1] or Elks, are the most beautiful & largest that one could see, exceeding twice the size of an ox, as well as wild goats, chamois,[2] deer, wolves,[3] foxes |
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1. "Rongifere", aka Rangifer refers to reindeer and caribou.
2. A mountain goat native to Europe. 3. Loup-cervier, "A kind of white wolfe, or beastingendred betweene a Hin and a wolfe, whose skinne is much esteemed by great men..." [Cotgrave] |