It has been seen that in the late Middle Ages Mallorca occupied a strategic position in the commercial networks of the Catalan and Italian merchants within the Mediterranean; but the Atlantic also increasingly entered into the calculations of Mallorcan businessmen and their colleagues, and by the late thirteenth century sea links were established as far afield as England and Flanders. These consisted in part, and at first, of indirect links, via Seville, which acted as a terminus for Genoese, Catalan and Mallorcan ships coming out of the Mediterranean, and for Basque and Cantabrian vessels coming from northern Spain and beyond. But penetration of the Atlantic was also directed south-westwards, down the coast of Atlantic Morocco, which features prominently in the Dret de exida documents for Mallorcan Muslims in the early fourteenth century. Sailings to Anfa and other ports nearby may long have been more numerous and profitable than those to England or Flanders; but they are also less well documented. Sailings further south as far as the Canaries were certainly a much greater rarity, but have attracted a considerable modern literature. Some shipping from Atlantic ports also penetrated through Gibraltar into the western Mediterranean, as the ancoratge records confirm, with their references to boats from northern Spain. Indeed, both Seville and Mallorca became interchange points for goods moving from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and vice versa in the early fourteenth century.