CELEBES. 



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cultured coastlanders, who speak or understand Malay or allied idioms, are 

 regarded as members of the dominant Indonesian race, while the inland wild 

 tribes, whatever their physical types and speech, are indiscriminately grouped as 

 Alfurus. Hence this name is dropped when any of those tribes exchange their 

 savage ways for a settled life on the coffee plantations. Many of these indigenous 



Fig. 95. — Macassae and the South -West Region of Celebes. 

 Scale 1 : 845,000. 



Depths 



0to5 

 Fathoms. 



5 to .'iO 

 Fathoms. 



50 to 250 

 Fathoms. 



18 Miles. 



250 Fathoms 

 and upwards. 



peoples betray undoubted traces of mixed descent, and individuals are often met 

 with the characteristic features and hair of the Papuans 



One of the dominant nations are the Bugis, whose original home is the 

 kingdom of Boni, in the south-western peninsula. From this region they have- 

 spread to the neighbouring provinces, and have even founded settlements in many 

 remote parts of the Eastern Archipelago. Like their Mangkassar (Macassar) and 

 Wajo neighbours, the Bugis are of middle size, but robust, vigorous, and active, 



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