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broke the chain of gold, which his mother had brought with her from heaven, in twopieces, after which, the, together with her hufband and his brother, vanilhed in a mo-ment, taking with her the one half of the chain, and leaving the other and the empireto her fon. This chain, which the Macaffers fometimes fay is heavy, fometimes light,at one time dark coloured, and at another bright, was ever afterwards one of theprincipal regalia of the Kings of Goach, till in the revolution of Crain Bontalancas, itwas loft, as I was informed, together with feveral other regal infignia.
The manufcript I alluded to, traces the origin of the Princes of Goach from thisfon of Toemanoerong, who, together with his three fucceflors, it is added, did not die,but vanifhed in the fame manner as their parents ; and the eighteenth King after himbegan his reign under the name of Paducca Siri Sultan Shah Badin Ifmael.
Although this King did not long occupy the throne, he waged a furious war againftthe King of Boni, who was reinforced by the arms of the Company.
He was depofed by the nine eftates of the country of Goach, and they defied inbis ftead the King of Tello, who was called Mappa Orangie, but, as King of Goach, hetook the name of Paducca Siri Sultan Sira Joudeen.
In the year 1718, the Macafler Prince, and afterwards famous rebel Caraing, or'Crain Bontalancas, fled from Goach, having killed a daughter of the former King,and fought an afylum among the Dutch, living under the Company’s protection, inthe campon Baro. He afterwards went from here -to Sumbawa , and aflifted in the warwhich raged between the Sumbawers and Baliers, in which the King of the formerWas killed. He wedded the daughter of this Prince, who was afterwards Queen ofSumbawa , and whofe mother, marrying with the King of Goach, perfuaded herdaughter to be divorced from Crain Bontalancas, and to marry a Prince of Sum-bawa .
In the year 1724, the King, Sira Joudeen, gave up entirely to his fon the kingdomTello, and taking upon himfelf the foie adminiftration of that of Goach, foon gave*° much umbrage to the Macafler Princes, and efpecially to Bontalancas, that the latter,"'ho was become both furious and defperate, from his forcible feparation from his"' I fe, formed a refolution of taking ample revenge upon the King. In order to com-P a fs this purpofe, he procured, not only feveral of the difcontented Macafler Princes,nt likewife many Bouginefe of high rank, to take part in his confpiracy ; and he? terw ards entered into the moft folemn engagement with the famous pirate Aroe Soen-an g> and his Captain Touaffa, to dethrone the Kings of Goach and Boni, and wholly0 expel the Dutch from Celebes .
Accordingly he kindled the flames of war, in the year 1734, in Bontain, whencefy f°on fpread far and wide. In the beginning of the war, Bontalancas gained manyo f V 5 ? ta ge s , and made fo much impreflion upon the King of Goach, that on the 5th* November 1735, he fled from Goach to Tello ; upon which the Macafler eftatest m . lat <riy elected his grandfon, furnamed Malawangefe Abdul Haerman Shoer,b j entlet b King of Goach. But he likewife was forced to yield to the arms of the re-jj s * and abandon his capital, which was immediately taken poffeflion of by Crainas p 113 ancas > while the King, together with a confiderable number of Macaffers, fledof nf a l^ ort Rotterdam, where in the year 1739, he put himfelf under the protectionthe Company.
* a ' n bontalancas, being mafter of the country of Wadjo, and of part of the king-nan ° ** on b canie down a fhort time before to the northern provincevS of the Com-caufed himfelf to be inftalled King of Goach.
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