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 150 DOMESTIC AND INTERNAL no country of the Archipelago possessed of any ad- vantages for trade, in which the Bugis of Waju are not found settled, and, in some situations, they have even colonized as a body, and founded inde- pendent states. The lake above-mentioned com- municates by rivers navigable for the largest native craft, both with the Bay of Boni to the east, and with the sea to the west. The voyage from the shores of the lake is commenced in the beginning of the easterly monsoon. The adventurers carry on a trading voyage as they proceed westward, until at Rhio, Malacca, Penang, and Achin, they reach the limits of the Archipelago, and are prepared to re- turn with the change of season. The commodi- ties which they export from their native country, or collect, in the course of their outward voyage, for the supply of the most distant islands, are the ex- cellent and durable cotton cloths of their native country, gold-dust, nutmegs, Spanish dollars, birds'- nests, camphor, Benjamin, or frankincense, and tortoise-shell. They bring back from the extremi- ties of the Archipelago, either for the supply of the intermediate tribes, or that of their own country- men, opium, European broad cloth, European and Indian cotton goods, unwrought iron, and tobacco. This voyage is necessarily the most considerable and important of the adventures of the Waju mer- chants, but many subordinate ones are undertaken, in which the chief object is to collect materials for