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Map of Antangil
Cities & Towns of Antangil
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all the rest of the coast is full of banks & rocks so that there is no way to approach this Kingdom except through the two previously mentioned entrances, or that of the Gulf of Pachinquir pleasing & tranquil, as the name implies, which is a hundred leagues in length, making varying coves, ports & harbors; as we have said, the best in all the world: for by its various contours & isles which lay upon it, the waves break, & the wind loses its force, & thereby making shelter of all coasts, so that it seems rather like a lake, or a great river than a sea. Its bottom is mostly muddy, or clayey, to which it is very good to anchor: Its width is twelve leagues, & its mouth twenty: but a large island named Corylée occupies sixteen of them so that only four remain for the two mouths, which have a depth of fifteen fathoms without any reefs, banks or sandbars with a rock cut by the back of the island, which makes four beautiful ports, giving shelter & assured retreat to the vessels, as soon as they have crossed the straights. All along there are several pleasant & fertile islands of various shapes & sizes, the names of which can be learned from the A 3 |