prevales in almoft every one. They are either brought to market
by the piratical Maluyes or Buggejfes, who make them one objedt
o f their cruizes Or petty inVafions ; or they are kidnapped by
thè co-inhabitants o f the fame iflands. The Mahometans think
they have the fame fight to hunt down and catch a Pagan, as the
gentry Of' Liverpool or Briftol have to encourage the trepanning
o f a curled-pated negro : and all, thefe bring them to market
With as little remorfe. I call as evidence Mr. Marfden *, Captain
Forre/M, in his voyage to Mergui, and old Dampier\. Slaves
from Celebes, Mindanao, and even Java itfelf, are feen at Batavia
in numbers incredible; let me do the Batavians the juftice to
fay, that fome o f their Haves are kept with great neatnefs, and
are inftrufted in mechanical trades. The Dutchman, fortunately
for them, finds it his intereft to employ them in the loom, ra*
ther than confume them under the préfiure of labor, beneath a
vertical fun.
O u r able officer, captain Carteret, in his return from his circumnavigation,
attempted to put into Macajfar, but was repulfed
by the jealoufy of the Dutch ; his diftrefs paffed expreffion ;
mod of his crew near the point of death, by the hardffiips of his
long voyage; nothing could equal the unfeelingnefs o f the
Dutchman’s heart ; there feemed to be little difference in its
temper in the year 1768, and that of its rudeft days. Mr. Carterei,
by amazing refolution, at length got leave to anchor and
procure refreshments in Bonthain bay, about thirty miles from
the capital. There he fuffered all kinds of extortion, and ob-
ferved every fpecies o f infolence and cruelty to the natives.
* Sumatra, p. 213. f P. 79» % Vòy. i. p. 456.
Phlegmatic
Plegmatic conilitutions never feel for the fuffering o f others;
their callofity is incorrigible; warm tempers may do wrong, but
they foon return to their native milkinefs. As to the Dutch,
they forced the refrefhments from them at a fmall price, and contented
themfelves with a thoufand per cent, profit from our commander.
What Captain Carteret tells us from p. 622. to p. 648.
is worthy o f perufal; excepting his voyage, which was moil ably
written by himfelf, all the reft of the three volumes is Mr.
Hawk/worth’s compilation, from the journals o f the navigators.
M r . Carteret could obferve that the city o f Macajfar, in Lat. C i t y .o f
, M a c a s s a r .
50 30', Was large, and mod delightfully fituated. It is faid alfo
to be very ftrong. About Bonthain bay are numerous villages,
and the country abounding with provifions and timber.
G r e a t quantities of Sualloo, or fea Aug, an animal o f the S u a l l o o ,
Mollufca tribe, is fifhed up here, efpecially about the thirteen
fmall ifles Called the Pater-nojlers, in the ftreight between Celebes
and Borneo; it is fuppofed to be a fpecies o f ASlinia, and lies on
the fandy bottom, and often on that which is environed with'
coral rocks. The fifhers ftrike it with four-bearded iron prongs,
placed parallel to each other, on the furface of two iron flrot, o f
fix or nine pounds weight, faftened to a ftrong line. This Sualloo
fometimes weighs half a pound; numbers o f boats with the crew
and family on board fubfift by this buiinefs, and dry it in the
fmoke. The black or belt kind is fold to the Cbinefe (who ufe
it in their nice diffies) for forty dollars a pecul; whereas the
worfe or white only brings in four or five.
T h e people employed in this fifhery are chiefiy Badjoos; they B a d j o o s
inhabit ma iy o f the ftiores o f the fmaller iflands around the Peopi'e‘