an island of Asia, and one of the Philippines, lying between those of Paragoa and Negro. It is 250 miles in circumference, and is the most populous and fertile of them all. It is watered by a great Panacarpus great number of rivers and brooks, and produces a great quantity of rice.

PANACARPUS, in Roman antiquity, a kind of flew which the Roman emperors frequently exhibited to the people. In this spectacle, the Circus being all set over with large trees, represented a forest, into which the beasts being let from the dens underground, the people, at a sign given by the emperor, pursued, shot, and killed all they could lay hold of, which they afterwards carried away, to regale upon at home. The beasts usually given on these occasions were boars, deers oxen, and sheep.