682 NOTICES OF THE NORTHERN OR DUTCH HALF OF CELEBES. 
(Jlousness are frequent, prompted by tbe desire of enjoyment, which 
looks only to the present moment. The dwellings of the Balias are 
miserable hats of bambu, standing on some high posts, consisting of 
one room, which at the same time is lodging, kitchen and store. 
The furniture consists of some weapons, mats, siri-boxes, a pot for 
cooking jagong or maize, and a cushion, i. e. the saddle for the horse. 
Any garden or plantation around is immediately neglected and left 
to desolation as soon as the harvest is brought in. Some who are 
richer have buffaloes, sheep and goats, but without deriving much 
profit, as they are ignorant and careless of breeding cattle. The 
occupations of the men are ; the cultivation of their small farm, fish¬ 
ing, and digging for gold. Every spare moment is devoted to opi¬ 
um smoking, cock-fighting, gambling, and sleeping. The occupa¬ 
tions of the women are more numerous and heavy, as besides all the 
domestic labours, they have to gather in and to sell the produce of 
their farm, to weave cloth, and to nurse and attend to the children, 
Thus here, as well as almost every where throughout the Archipe¬ 
lago, it is the custom that the wife has to support the husband, and 
hence it is that polygamy can exist without much jealousy. On 
the contrary the wife rejoices to see a new wife introduced into the 
family, as she thereby gets assistance in providing for it; and who¬ 
ever therefore can afford it, surrounds himself with a whole herd of 
gundik (concubines). 
The richer classes as regards domestic life, are in all respects 
like the poor. Their dwellings are just as dirty and wretched. They 
fire only distinguished by dress and by greater laziness. Like the 
owls, they are properly alive only during the night. Immoderate 
sensual enjoyments and opium smoking enfeeble and enervate the 
body and soul. All labour is left to slaves, whose number is so enor¬ 
mous, that some are proprietors of more than a thousand slaves, to 
whom are appointed the several tasks of agriculture and weaving of 
kapas and kapok. If ships arrive, all the produce is collected, and 
bartered for the necessary articles. Among the furniture in the 
houses of rich people are commonly some chairs and tables, kept 
for the more ceremonious visits of Europeans, but dispensed with as 
soon as acquaintance and familiarity are established. The partition 
walls of the several rooms are nothing but curtains, which give to 
the whole interior a pleasing look of comfort. If you are on a 
friendly footing with the master of the house, he will, to welcome 
your visit, scarcely raise himself on his elbow from his soft and 
