($0 NOTICES OF THE NORTHERN OR DUTCH HALF OF CELEBES. 
Generally out of the number of the Kapala soldado a life-guard for 
the princes is selected, and hence their name. 
The above mentioned title of major in Gurontalo, is given to four 
different officers chosen from the Balia: a, the Adjutant of the Raja ; 
b, the Police-Magistrates for inspecting the passars etc. ; c, the Over¬ 
seers of estates and gold mines; d , an undefined office, an empty 
title, given generally to the sons of Bobatu’s, in order to secure to 
them some authority and emolument. 
The slaves form the largest portion of the population, and their 
condition is not oppressive. There are several subdivisions: 1st. the 
Mangofuli or MangohuU , who are very numerous, and not proper¬ 
ly slaves, but independent, excepting same feudal services for the 
g ood of the community, which they have to discharge, and which are 
transmitted from father to son. Lately a great number ot them were 
incorporated with the Balia, Their deputies, are the Kimelaha ka¬ 
lian. 2nd. Buda pusaka (slaved by inheritance,) These live en¬ 
tirely with their master and his family and work for them, having 
become slaves originally by debt and inability to pay it. 3rd. 
da, common slaves, captives made in former wars, and their des¬ 
cendants, very numerous ; they may be sold or given away, but not 
into other countries and provinces. 
The following custom in Gurontalo is very remarkable: if two 
slaves of two different families beget children, then their offspring 
becomes the slave of both families, staying alternately equal periods 
with each family, as a mutual arrangement. Further, if a slave of 
two or more families marries the slave of other families, the child¬ 
ren become the property of all the different masters of their parents, 
Thus one female slave was found working in 16 families, changing 
her abode every week. 
Manners and Customs. —Owing to the mixed character of the 
nation, consisting of and influenced by Ternateans, Tidoreans and 
Bugis (the latter especially in great numbers), it is difficult to dis¬ 
cern distinct peculiarities. We speak first of Dress: the princes 
and aristocracy imitate the European dress, with the exception of 
the head dress, considering very justly the turban or handkerchief 
much more convenient. The middle classes dress entirely in the 
Bugis fashion, and display great luxury, wearing very generally silks 
and costly kinds of cloth, richly bordered and covered with gold and 
silver-laces. The sarongs, of the very finest kind, are fastened 
Found the waist by belts, not seldom richly ornamented with gold 
