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Map of Antangil
Cities & Towns of Antangil
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shape is like a long square, & contains around one thousand and sixty leagues in all. It is limited on the side of our Pole by the great Indian Sea; From the Antarctic by certain high mountains always full of snow, called Sariche, inhabited by very barbarous & cruel people; From the East, by a great river named Jarrit, which falls into the Indian Sea; From the West, by another river named Bachi.[1] In the middle is a large Gulf named Pachinquir, which extends up to a hundred leagues inland, creating several beautiful coves, ports, harbors & islands: Its width is seventeen leagues, receiving four great rivers, which, after having run the greater part of this Kingdom, empty into it: which makes it wondrously fertile, pleasant & agreeable, for all being all navigable & of long course, with a thousand other small rivers, lakes, springs & streams, which greatly increase them, as we will describe them hereafter more particularly. All this great expansive country is divided into six score[2] Provinces, as many capital cities, & into an infinity of other cities, towns, & villages which depend on them, of which the principal l one, named Sangil,[3] is situated at the |
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1. Whereas the author has the east of Antangil bounded by the Jarrit River, and the west of Antangil bordered by the
river Bachi, the map provided has the opposite. Perhaps this was likely the result of the map being the negative of a
block print process. Or perhaps it was intentional, and like More's Utopia is "No Where", or with Antangil maybe, "not
to be found".
2. Six score = 120 Provinces. 3. Perhaps a coincidence, there is a people known as the Sangil. Also known as the Sangirese they have traditionally been concentrated in the province of North Sulawesi in Indonesia and the Region of Dávao in the Philippines. |