CELEBESoR MACASSAR. 89 



Phlegmatic conftitutions never feel for the fufFcring of others ; 

 their callofity is incorrigible ; warm temper?, may c!o wrong, but 

 they foon return to their native milkinefs. As to the Dutch ^ 

 they forced the refrefliments from them at a fmall price, and con- 

 tented themfelves with a thoufand percent, profit from cur com- 

 mander. .What Captain Carteret tells us from p. 622. to p. 648. 

 is worthy of perufal ; excepting his voyage, which was moft ably 

 written by himfelf, all the reft of the three volumes is Mr. 

 Hawkfwortb's compilation, from the journals of the navigators. 



Mr. Carteret could obferve that the city of MacaJJ'ar, in Lat. City of 



Macassar, 



5° 30', was large, and moft delightfully fituated. It is faid alfo 

 to be very ftrong. About Bonthain bay are numerous villages, 

 and the country abounding with provifions and timber. 



Great quantities of Sualloo, or fea flug, an animal of the Sualloo. 

 Mollufca tribe, is fiflied up here, efpecially about the thirteen 

 fmall ides called the Pater-jwjlers, in the ftreight between Celebes 

 and Borneo ; it is fuppofed to be a fpecies of Aclinia^ and lies on 

 the fandy bottom, and ofteYi on that which is environed with 

 coral rocks. The fifhers ftrike it with four-bearded iron prongs, 

 placed parallel to each other, on the furface of two iron fliot, of 

 fix or nine pounds weight, fattened to a ftrong line. This Sualloo 

 fometimes weighs half a pound ; numbers of boats with the crew 

 and family on board fubfift by this bufinefs, and dry it in the 

 fmoke. The black or heft kind is fold to the Chinefe (who ufe 

 it in their nice diflies) for forty dollars a pecul ; whereas the 

 worfe or white only brings in four or five. 



The people employed in this fifiiery are chiefly Badjoos\ they Badjoos 



P£OPL£. 



inhabit many of the fliores of the fmaller iflands around the 

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