one of the Philippine Islands, in the Eastern Seas, situated due north of Luzon or Laconia, about the 123rd degree of east longitude. It is about 145 miles in length by twenty-five in average breadth, and is fruitful in rice, for which the inhabitants pay tribute. The island was so named by the Spaniards, from the Papuan or oriental negroes, its original inhabitants, who still inhabit the mountains, being in a state of savage independence, and continually at war with each other. Long. 122° 30'. E. Lat. 10° 10'. N.