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No Quarter Shown

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From the city of A Coruña to the Cabo Vilán is a ruggedly beautiful coast of long, lovely beaches, and cliffs that fall straight down to the waves. It's a lonely coast, though. Only the beaches are frequented. There are few villages and towns right on the coast. Especially after Laxe heading west. There the coast becomes more accidental and there are few places where boats can take shelter in a storm. The only towns on the coast there, Camelle, Arou, and Santa Mariña, are in sheltered coves where small boats could be brought ashore, or where a sea wall could be built to further shelter the cove. From Santa Mariña to Cabo Vilán, and down around the corner of the map to Camariñas there are no settlements. The coast was too rough for our ancestors to even think about it. Upon that coast the storms from the Atlantic have always battered their hardest and has made it difficult for fishermen to ply their trade. That is the Costa da Morte, the Coast of Death. The entire Costa da Morte a...