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and its fuburbs ; to the fouth within the outward line of the campon Baro ; and to theeaft they define it to extend no farther than to Bontualack.

The difference in this, and in many other refpects, between the Macaffers and theCompany arifes from the circumftance, that the treaty of Boni remained in full forceafter the conqueft of Samboupo, or rather that it was never altered and amended, orat leaf! explained, upon the change of affairs, although the Company have fmce beenthree times at war with the Macaffers, and the iffue has every time been fuch thatthey had only to prefcribe their conditions ; yet this neceffary emendation, it feems, hasnever been thought of.

The prefent jurifdidtion of the Company, as claimed and maintained by them, ex-tends from Sambong Java to what is called the Kraal; thence northward along thefait marfhes behind Bontualack, as far as the river Patinga Loang not far from OedjongTana.

The northern provinces include the lands of Maros, with the half of Sodian andBarras, or Cabbe Siang; Labaccan, with Bongero and Sageree, which are the plainslying between Tello and Tanete, the proper granaries of Celebes ; then the placeswhich are fituated between thefe plains and the mountains ; and laftly, the mountainvillages, or negrees.

Thefe lands, which border upon each other, have the fea to the weft; Tanete andMaros to the north; Lamoeroe to the eaft; and the kingdom of Macaffer to the fouth.

They were all conquered during the reign of the Macaffer King Allah Oedeen, whoreduced them to fervitude, and divided them by villages and lots among the nobles ofMacaffer, who received from the inhabitants, as from their own property, the tenth ofthe produce, and the ufual feudal fervices, till October ,1668, when, upon the rupturewith the Macaffers, Maros was taken by the Company and their allies, but it fell againinto the hands of the enemy on the 20th of November enfuing ; however, upon theconqueft of Samboupo, this province was alfo fubdued by our people.

In the year 1736 or 1737, when the northern provinces were overrun by the rebelCrain Bontalancas, all of them either voluntarily or by force abandoned the fide of theCompany, and took up arms againft them ; but when Maros was retaken in Auguft1 737 , by Governor Smout, raoft of the chiefs returned to their former allegiance,while the others abfconded, though they were afterwards purfued and taken, andunderwent a well merited punifhment.

Thofe who returned to their duty, together with other chiefs newly appointed, werefummoned in January 1738 to the fort, where thofe who were guilty, but had returned°f themfelves received a pardon ; and all of them, Labaccan excepted, abjured forever the dominion of Macaffer, and were accordingly again received as faithful fubjectsto the Company.

A junior merchant has the fuperintendence over all thefe provinces ; he refides inthat of Maros, between the palifadoed fort called Valkenburg and the negree Soeryje-* an g ; the lands around the Company’s pagger, or palifadoed fort, in the king-dom of Tanete, on the river Pantjana, are alfo under this refident. The number ofdegrees, or townfhips, over which the Company’s jurifdiction and the authority ofhe reftdent at Maros extends, amounts to three hundred and feventy.

For the government of the inhabitants under the refident Maros has, befides fivenative regents, who are elected by the elders of the people, from the neareft relatives0 fuch as have died, and are prefented to the governor and council at Macaffer, whoconfirm the election, with a referve neverthelefs for the approbation of the govern-ment at Batavia.

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