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MATAN

Volume 14 · 47 words · 1860 Edition

a small island of the Philippines, near the E. coast of Zebu; Lat. 10° 16', Long. 123° 48'. E. It is about 10 miles in circumference, and is only noted as the place where the navigator Magalhaens was killed in a skirmish with the natives in 1521.