luconia

Updated: June 28, 2025

I could not learn from whence they have their Iron; but it is most likely they go in their great Boats to the North end of Luconia, and Trade with the Indians of that Island for it. Neither did I see any thing beside Iron, and pieces of Buffaloes Hides, which I could judge that they bought of Strangers: Their Cloaths were of their own Growth and Manufacture.

- The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55: Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the: Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of: The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books: and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial: and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their: Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of: the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690

They depart from the Bashee Islands, and passing by some others, and the N. End of Luconia. St. John's Isle, and other of the Philippines. They stop at the two Isles near Mindanao; where they re-fit their Ship, and make a Pump after the Spanish fashion.

- The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55: Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the: Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of: The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books: and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial: and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their: Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of: the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690

On the 13th of July we bore away to the northward, it being determined either to attempt the strait through which the Acapulco ships pass to the port of Manilla, or to go round the north end of Luconia, and endeavour to fetch Macao, in China, though we were a little doubtful about fetching the latter in so leewardly a vessel.

John Hunter - An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island