• The map is transcribed by experts as follows:
•I. The mountains contain rich ores. . . . There some of the sheep have silken wool.
•II. This country is inhabited. The entire population goes naked.
•III. This region is known as the vilayet of Antilia. It is on the side where the sun sets. They say that there are four kinds of parrots, white, red, green and black. The people eat the flesh of parrots and their headdress is made entirely of parrots' feathers. There is a stone here. It resembles black touchstone. The people use it instead of the ax.
•we found a headdress made of these parrot feathers, and also a stone resembling touchstone.
•IV. This map was drawn by Piri Ibn Haji Mehmed, known as the nephew of Kemal Reis, between the 9th of March and the 7th of April of the year 1513.
•Dr. Joseph Richardson, PhD, PE [rich@rich.engr.mcneese.edu]
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering
Mcneese State University .