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 HISTORY OF CELEBES. S8l in my judgment, fully enough for the whole period of Macassar history. At the rate of 13 years for each reign, the whole period will be 416 years, which carries us back to the last years of the fourteenth century of Christ. The very names of the sovereigns point at the anarchy and disorder which belongs to the state of society. In their re- cords the princes are usually designated by the place or circumstances under which they died. The uncertain and wandering life which they led, and the want of a fixed residence, must have given rise to the practice of naming them from the place of their death, for the occupation of a permanent seat of government w^ould soon have rendered this no distinction. One person is recognised under the amiable name of *' throatcutler." One is called decapitated ;" a fourth, " he who was beat to death on his own staircase ;" and a fifth, as if it were a rare occurrence, " he who died reigning," that is, who died a natural death. The more civilized portion of the inhabitants of Celebes are divided, as already mentioned, into two great tribes, the Macassars and Bugis, and each of these again subdivided into a number of petty nations, among whom that of Goa^ with the Macassars, and that of Boni, with the Bugis, have for many ages been the most considerable. These two, in different periods of the history of the island,
 * he who run a muck,^^ Another, " he who was