Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Who were the mysterious Lequios described by Portuguese explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto? Were they peaceful tributaries from Okinawa’s Ryukyu Islands… or a sovereign, seafaring power in Luzon?

In Peregrinação (~1558), Pinto describes ships that were:
⚓ Vast, ocean-faring, multi-decked
⚓ Built with double-thick planks fastened by iron bolts
⚓ Armed with warrior crews, stronger than Chinese junks
⚓ Both traders and fighters — not just ceremonial emissaries

Ryukyu’s small tribute junks simply don’t fit. But pre-Hispanic Philippine ships — the Karakoa and Balangay — match perfectly. Archaeology, chroniclers, and cultural history confirm it.

This is another smoking quill of evidence that the Lequios were Filipinos, not Ryukyuans.

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