 Imperial Chinese texts mention a "Kingdom of Kumalarang" (from the Yakan ""kumalang"" or "to sing", owing to the location being a place for celebrations and gatherings) during the Ming Dynasty, believed to be the island which now has a "barangay" of the same name on its northwestern shores.The earliest map of the Philippines which made reference to an island labeled "Taguima" was produced by Giacomo Gastaldi, through woodblock prints in 1548 and subsequently included in the influential travel book of Giovanni Battista Ramusio, the "Della Navigatione e Viaggi", which was published between 1556 and 1583 in three volumes.This was followed by Abraham Ortelius's work "Indiae Orientalis Insularumque Adiacientium Typus", published in 1573 in a German text edition of the atlas "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" by Christophe Plantin in Antwerp.