8.S CELEBESOR MACASSAR. 



prevales in almoft every one. They are either brought to market 

 by the piratical Malayes or Biiggejfes, who make them one objea 

 of their cruizes or i)etty invafions ; or they are kidnapped by 

 the co-inhabitants of the fame iflands. The Mahometans think 

 they have the fame right to hunt down and catch a Pagan, as the 

 gentry of Liverpool or Brijlol have to encourage the trepanning 

 of a curled-pated negro : and all thefe bring them to market 

 with as little remorfe. I call as evidence Mr. Mar/den *, Captain 

 ForreJl\, in his voyage to Mergui, and old DampierX. Slaves 

 from Celebes, Mindanao, and even Java itfelf, are feen at Batavia 

 in numbers incredible; let me do the Batavians the juftice to 

 fay, that fome of their (laves are kept with great neatnefs, and 

 are inftrui5led in mechanical trades. The Dutchman, fortunately 

 for them, finds it his intereft to employ them in the loom, ra- 

 ther than confume them under the pi;effure of labor, beneath a 

 vertical fun. 



Our able officer, captain Carteret, m his return from his cir- 

 cumnavigation, attempted to put into Macajfar, but was repnlfed 

 by the jealoufy of the Dutch ; his dilbefs paffed expreffion ; 

 moft of his crew near the point of death, by the hardOiips of his 

 long voyage; nothing could equal the unfeelingnefs of the 

 Dutchjnaii'i heart ; there feemed to be little difference in its 

 temper in the year 1768, and that of its rudeft days. Mr. Carte- 

 ret, by amazing refolution, at length got leave to anchor and 

 procure refrefhments in Bonthain bay, about thirty miles from 

 the capital. There he fuffered all kinds of extortion, and ob- 

 ferved every fpecies of infolence and cruelty to the natives. 



• Sumatra, p. 213. f P- 79' X Voy. i. p. 456. 



Phlegmatic 



