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between the legs. Tlie upper part of the body h quite 

 naked. On the head tliey wear a piece of cotton cloth in 

 the form of an handlierchief, with which they cover their 

 hair, which is as black as pitch, and very long. On the 

 other parts of the body, neither the men nor women fufter 

 any hair to grow; they pnll it out by the roots, in the lame 

 manner as the Mahometans and Indians do, as foon as it ap- 

 pears. Their food is chiefly rice, fiih, and pifangs ; and 

 their beverage is water, though they are not dclUtute of 

 " faqueer," or palm wine. The Bougincfe women are in 

 general much handfomer than thofe of the other Indian 

 tribes; feme of them, if their complexion had the fame mix- 

 ture of red and white as our females, would be accounted 

 beauties in Europe. They are naturally of an amorous 

 difpofition, and are capable of undertaking any thing to 

 gr.itify their inclinations. The Bouginefe, who liave in ge- 

 neral adopted the mahometan rehgion, may have four wives, 

 provided the hufband can maintain them ; but if they are 

 not fatisfied with each other, tiiey may feparatc with as 

 little trouble as they were united. They are a high fpiritcd 

 people, fond of adventures and emigration, and capable of 

 undertaking the mod dangerous enterprifes. The appella- 

 tion " Bngguefe," has become, among Europeans in the 

 call of Lidia, fynonymous with foldier, juft as feapoy is in 

 the weft. The people of Celebes a.'e very induftrious, and 

 they are very adventurous merchants ; and the Buggnefe, in 

 particular, often find their way to the fpice illands, in 

 fpite of the vigilance of the Dutch. They write their 

 language from left to right, in acharafter peculiar to thcm- 

 felves ; on the fea-coalt they univerfally fpeak the Malay 

 tongue, and have many Malay phrafcs in their own language. 

 Their funerals are attended with vei7 little ceremony. The 

 body is wrapped up in a piece of white cotton cloth, and 

 depofited in the grave, over which fome fweet fcented flowers 

 are ftrewed, andtvvoftones are erefled, one at the head and 

 another at ti.c feet. Stavorinus's Voyage to the Eaft Indies, 

 vol. ii. 



BoNi, lay cf, a bay in the kingdom of Boni, in the 

 fouthern part of the ifland of Celebes. It is called Sewa by 

 the natives, and Bnggucfs, or long hay, by the Englifh. Of 

 tliis bay we have the following account by captain Foreft. 

 Having paffed the ftrait between Celebes and Saleyer, called 

 the " Budgeroons," keep on in a direclion N. E. by N. 

 about 130 miles, and you will find, near the weft coaft of 

 the Sewa, a fmall illand called " Baloonroo," vifible 8 or 10 

 leagues off, and having fome rocky iflets at its eaft end. 

 Farther on, about a day's fail, or about 60 miles, is the 

 mouth of the river Chinrana, which takes its rife in the 

 Warjoo country, the capital of which is Toftoro, lying a 

 day's journey by water from the mouth of the river ; it after- 

 wards paftes through Boni ; it has a good muddy bar, paf- 

 fable by large fliips, and is navigable a good way up ; it has 

 feveral moutiis, and on its banks are many towns, which 

 carry on a great trade in gold, rice, fago, csffia, tortoife- 

 fiicU, pearls, &c. The anchorage is good off the river's 

 mouth. Half a day's fail farther north, along the weft 

 coaft of the Sewa, is the river Peeneekee, which is not very 

 confiderable. Farther on are two places called Akohngan 

 and Telludopin, which are pretty well inhabited. Con- 

 tiiuiing ftill north, you come to the river Sewa, not very 

 confiderable; then to the river Loo, famous for boat-building; 

 then you come to Mankakoo, where are gold and plenty of 

 lago, very cheap, and alfo caflia and feed-pearl. Being now 

 come to the bottom of " Buggefs-bay," the fago-tree 

 abounds very much ; and in many parts of the Sewa, there 

 arc fpots of foul ground, on which they fifti for fwallow, 

 which they generally carry to Macafler, to fell to the China 



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junk. On th.c eaft fidc'of the Sewa th.e country is not fo 

 well inhabited as on the weft fide. The fouth-eaft point of 

 the Sewa is called " Pajnngau;'' where is a cluftcrof illands, 

 rather fmall, among which is good anchorage. SUivorinus's 

 Voyage, vol. ii. p. 213. 



BONIEUX, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Vauclufe, and chief place of a canton, in the diftnct of the 

 Apt. The place contains 2450, and the canton 6178 in. 

 habitants; the territory coinprehends 130 kiliomelres, and 

 6 communes ; S leagues E. of Avignon. 



BONIFACE, in Biozrriphy. There are nine popes of 

 this name. Bomfnce I. fucceeded Zolimus in the year .q.iH; 

 and when the fchifm, occalioned by a party that favoured 

 Eulalius, was terminated, he was fully eftablilhcd in pollef- 

 fion of the papal fee in 419. Before his eleftion he was a 

 prcftjyter of irreproachable charafter, and after his advance- 

 ment he was a lover of peace ; and though he maintained 

 what he called the juft rights of the Roman fee, in the ju- 

 rifdiftion which his predectffors had exercifed over the biftiops 

 of Illyricum, he made no attempt to extend his authoiity 

 and claims. He revoked the privileges gmnted by Zofinius 

 to the fee of Aries, and rellored them to the fees of Nar- 

 bonne and Vienne, which had been unjuftly deprived of 

 them ; and with a moderation that redounds much to his 

 honour, he refnfed to interfere in a difpute which took plate 

 between the clergy of Valence and Maximus, their bilhop. 

 He died at a very advanced age, November 4, 422 ; was 

 canonized as a faint in the church of Rome ; and his feftival 

 was kept on the 25th of Oftobtr. Bede gives credit to the 

 relation of miracles wrought by this pope, and Baronius (ad 

 ann. 423,) fays, that he relieved Rome in the time of a fa- 

 mine. 



Boniface II., a Roman by birth, and a Goth by de- 

 fcent, iupplied the vacancy occafioued by the death of Fe- 

 hx III. in 520 ; and upon the death of a com.petitdr, named 

 Diofcorus, obtained quiet poirefRon of the papal chair. 

 This pope confirmed the decrees of fome Galilean bifliops, 

 who condemned the femipelagian doftrlne ; and in J3 i he 

 propoied to alter the mode of electing a pope, and to alTume 

 the prerogative of appointing his fuccctlbr. He obtauied a 

 decree for this piirpofe, and aftually nominated a deacon, 

 whofe name was Vigilius. But at a fecond council the 

 Roman fcnate, in concurrence witli the bilhops and clergy, 

 ebliged the pope to r.;voke his former decree, ^nd to ac- 

 knowledge himfelf guilty of high treafon. Boniface died in 

 Oftober, 532. 



Boniface 111., a native of Rome, fucceeded Sabinian, after 

 a vacancy of ahnoll a year, in 607 ; and having ingratiated 

 himfelf with the emperor Phocas, to whom he was deputed 

 as a nuncio by pope Gregory, in 603, he obtained from 

 this tyrant the title of " univerfal bifliop," and " head of 

 the church," which was taken from the bifliop of Conftan- 

 tinople, and transferred to Boniface and his fucceffors in the 

 fee of Rome. Thus, fays Bower, was the power of the 

 pope, as univerfal bifliop and head of the chin-ch, or in other 

 words, the papal " fupremacy," flrft introduced. It owed 

 its original to the worft of men ; it was procured by the 

 bafeft means, or by flattering a tyrant in his wickednefs and' 

 tyranny ; and according to the previoufly declared judgment 

 of Gregory the great, it was in itfclf '" anti-chrillian, he- 

 retical, blafphemous, and diabolical." Boniface afterwards 

 afl'eiTibled a council for fettling the eleiSlon of bifhops, in 

 which they were forbidden to nominate their own fucceffors, 

 and the confent of tlie people, clergy, and fovereign, and 

 the confirmation of the pope, were made neceffary. Boni- 

 face died in Novertiber, 607. 



BoniJ'acc IV., a native of Valeria, in the country of the 



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