a in i rM l ? ° re thaU ODabalf more extensive than Bali or Lomboc, either of which is
fts «!iTel m0ren alUable- With the excePtion of ^ broad bay of iayeli on
The in te rin S f f S •ram’, ltu?f, a comPact unbroken mass of land of an oval form,
ravines The f co“.gen.es of hill and mountain, divided by narrow valleys or deep
sected by v e ilsoT qw te ® ^ated to be sedimentary, the chief rock being sfate, inte£
and ih i ? j i j • mountain rises to. the height of 10.000 feet
th f i r vM Of a mvr^een t S ' 8* the oil deriYed from the distillation of
¡ K f i S ? w F S M S * = 5 k S iS S S t r s S f
occupied bv th e ’ °vf °f " V ^ blU of th e wes*‘ The in te rio r is
all accounts a brown oomPlexion and lank hair, by
M a l^ s oTthe coast ’ m ° ffenslve' b u t ldle I* I * e d u c e d to dependence o n ’th e
f o ^ t Z t r Z 01“ “ 0/ c°n dition of Boeroe Proclaims its unfavourable physical
¿ “ Z n r o d r E Z l ^ 6“ 6^ ° f ,S0il\ T ? P°s™ “ « ^ e r native vegetable
L ih s e d TnhaWtants T h T q f ’ ^ & MaUyan fishermen constitute its most
of wealth Tnd d ^ w f o T P l f T ’ W6i e found to haTO attained an amount
means r L h e d X r ^ see“ bJ Europeans,reached alter a lapse of three centuries and a half. wIhni c1h8 5B4 otehroee N h’eaths ebrlyn nndo
Tor c=argo. entrThet dtee:p b^ay o^n w hich it stand*s" is ta0n aeixic neallteionnt sh awribtohuoru.t hnpMt cm shipP
large if land situated off the south-eastern penin-
S an d of. iM oenal cnaslllle6dd aTlsmo PSa “ng a^sim ^. Bo betyo na nhaarsr oawn satrreaait ,o afn d13 i8n saqnuoatrhee rg beyo etrhae-
diVblis^ 1 fr’ ant r • ■t0WU Boli°’ at tbe southem entrance of the strait which
ThI r °m “V Y “ south latitude 5° 28', and east longitude 122° 33' 30"
that o f taW o e gsoT ?lly h0l\ T t r °Cky\ is indented by one bay on its eastern side,’
The afraif X..V i j -’ i onir»ei? nme ^eaSues wide, and containing many islets.
ftwA frrt , divides Boeton and Moena nowhere exceeds a mile in breadth is
i f f l y navigable for. ^ o / h i p s - The general aspect of th e S a n d is
formation pni °WT r any r ° untam of considerable elevation. The geological
¡heUs r ru eI ton? containing the remains of madrepores ^ n d
Islands so n e a f t^ t t* ^6mg le8S luxuriant than is usual in the Malay
formation Tbn ? Equator, which may arise from the peculiarity of its rock
W tovariablv o f^ gf v n °f tbe island are the bog> the buffalo, and the
y L colour; and both it and the buffalo are supposed
w T h T t T 6 ^ fr°m # 1 doinestic stete. The inhabitants of Boeton are of the
brown, lank-haired race, and speak a language of their own, of the same familv as to
¿ fib « a u d structure with the languages of Celebes, and they write it in the character
nations nf r l / b in ™ civilisation, the people of Boeton are not below the chief
a r t s X t these do68’ Th Macassar and Bugis and possess the same knowledge of the
arts that these do. The only product of their industry that deserves special notice is
A v ° ° i °D’ J 1? °T fi.neness and length of staple excels every other variety in the
i x p S w S m d6mand abroad’ Particularly in Celebes, is an article of
No recent census has been made of the population of Boeton, but the island is at
5000088 any p3^ ?f Celebes- An. old estimate made the population
™ 4 r v 5* T 1? * ^ oena an(i the Tukang-bessie islands, are subject to the same
r, . , ’ w ? ca blms®lf Sultan of Boeton, but who is in reality a tributary of the
utch under treaties, the oldest of which goes as far back as 1667. The main obiect
of all such compacts was to secure to the European power t h e p r i C l f f i
cheap and selling dear, by the exclusion of all competition. P g °f buymg
BOGOR (Javanese, a mat or carpet). The name of a district of Java, m the country
of the Sundas. In it is the country-seat of the Governor-General of Netherland India,
called Buitenzorg, distant from Batavia about 40 miles, a beautiful locality in the
hills, and with a temperate climate.
BOHOL or BOJOL, one of the Philippine Islands, called the Bisayas or Yisayas,
a designation that includes all the islands lying between the great islands of Luzon
and Mindano. Bohol lies between the larger islands of Qebu and Leyte, the tenth
parallel of north latitude passing through it. I t is computed to have an area of 150|
square leagues, and a circumference of 43. Its surface is represented as hilly and
rocky, and its soil of inferior fertility, but producing some rice, the coco-palm, cacao,
tobacco, cotton, and the Abaca banana. The population, by the census of 1849, was
116,751, of whom 21,925 were subject to the poll-tax.
BONI. The name of a leading state of the nation of Celebes, called by themselves
Wugi, and by the Malays Bugis. The seat of government, which gives its name to
the state, is situated on the south-western limb of Celebes, and on the western shore
of the great inlet called by European geographers the Bay of Bonn The town is in
south latitude 1° 37', and east longitude 126° 32'.
BONIRATI, the native name of an islet in the sea of Celebes, lying between Salayer
and Kalatoa, and about a day's sail for a prau west of the latter. It is probably the
smaller of two islets called in the maps Kalao. Bonirati is a settlement or colony of
the Bugis, and a considerable native emporium. The settlement is on the shore of
the strait which divides the island from a larger one called Lambego. The majority of
the inhabitants of both islands are Bajaus or wandering Malay fishermen, who collect
tortoise-shell, holothurion, and birds’-nests: but the, carrying trade is conducted
wholly by the Bugis, whose praus make yearly voyages to Bali, Batavia, and Singapore
to the west, and New Guinea, the Moluccas, and Manilla to the east and north.
BONTHEIN, called Bonti by the natives, is the name of a district of the country
of the Macassars of Celebes, embracingthe southern extremity of the south-western
peninsula of the island. The town or settlement of the Dutch, on the shore of a bay
having the same name, is in south latitude 5° 32', and east longitude 121° 52'. On
the slope of the mountain Lompo-batang, and within this territory, the American
potato and European vegetables are grown : and the place itself, distant from Boele-
kumba 15 miles, is connected with Macassar, the chief Dutch settlement in Celebes,
by a post-road of 50 miles in length.
BOONTING, correctly Pulo-bunting, th a t is “ pregnant island.” There are four
uninhabited islets off the coast of the Malay principality of Queda, and within four
or five leagues of the British settlement of Penang, the names of which will give
some notion of the character of the Malayan nomenclature of places. “ Pregnant
island” is the largest of them; the next to it Songsong, or “ escort;” the third
Panggil, “ call-island; ” and the fourth Bidan, “ the midwife.”
BORNEO is undoubtedly the largest island in the world th a t can properly be
called so, New Guinea alone approaching to it in magnitude, for it has a coast-line
estimated at 2000 miles, and an area computed at 12,743 geographical square leagues,
or about 263,600 square miles, which will make it between six and seven times the size
of Java, and between three and four times the size of Britain. The equator bisects
it, leaving about one-half of it in each hemisphere, so that it is swept by the four
monsoons, and is therefore strictly an equatorial region, hot and moist. Its form is
that of an irregular pyramid, of winch the base is at the south-west, and the apex at
the north-east. The greatest length of the island is about 700 miles, and its greatest
breadth, which is in the first degree of north latitude, 600; but from the second
degree of north latitude to its northern extremity its breadth is contracted, and on
an average does not exceed 200 miles. I t has been conveniently divided into a
southern side facing Java, a western facing the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, a
north-western washed by the China Sea and fronting Kambojia, Cochin-China, and
Tonquin, a northern of small extent having the southern Philippines before it, a
north-eastern exposed generally to the Pacific, and an eastern facing Celebes.
The coast of Borneo is very little indented by bays, and nowhere by deep inlets;
and it contains no internal sea or great navigable lake. Allowance made for its
peculiar vegetation, it has the physical character of a mass cut out of Africa or
America about the equator, with the disadvantage of wanting the great navigable
rivers of these continents. The few bays which it possesses are, for the most part,