^oo Defcrlptioji of the IJland of Celebes, 



colour down to its mouth ; and thofe who are fo hnprudcnt 

 as to drink of it arc feized with a dangerous dyfentery. 



The labour of the miners is not always attended with the 

 fame fuccefs ; for it fometimes happens that they work a 

 month and longer, during which they fpend fevcral dollars, 

 without finding gold of the value of one. In that cafe 

 they are obliged to dig in fome other place, and to renew 

 their labour. In newly difcovered mines they are for the 

 mod part fuccefsfiil ; but in mines that have been worked 

 for fome time, they are often obliged to labour a whole 

 month before they obtain any gold. The quantity and value 

 of the golit which is found in any mine cannot be accurately 

 afcertained. One workman, alfo, is often more fortunate than 

 another. In newly difcovered mines there are labourers who 

 fometimes, in the courfe of fourteen days, find to the value 

 of two hundred dollars ; whereas in other places the value of 

 twenty dollars is fcarcely found in the courfe of a year. 



In the wide extended gold mines of the river Palella, which 

 divides itfelf into feveral branches, there are places where 

 gold is ejfceedingly abundant; but in fuch places it is of lefs 

 value, being fcarcely eighteen carats fine. The beft gold 

 comes from the mines of Popajatu, Molifipat, Ankahulu, 

 Tolodinki, Lembuno, Snnflb and Tamperana ; alfo from the 

 fouth and fouth-weft fide of Pogiama, Wongo, Tomollas 

 Bevool, and Tontoly, The gold procured from all thefe 

 mines is for the moft part above twenty carats fine. Fre- 

 derick Diihr, a fervant of the Dutch Eaft India company, 

 who vifited thofe mines a few years ago, is the only perfon 

 who has given an authentic account of them. Thofe who 

 travelled through thefe diftrifts before him, never faw the 

 gold mines, but only vifited the habitations of the chief 

 civil officers, which are at a confiderable difl:auce from the 

 places where the gold is dug up ; and the chief men amoqg 

 the natives are too indolent to undertake journeys along thofe 

 difficult and dangerous roads which conduft to the mines, 

 and in which people are pfte}) in dariger of breaking their 

 necks. 



Within the extent of the gold mines of Ankahulu therp is 

 a place called J-'QPgi, which produces a kind of gold that ji^ 



fincnef^ 



